Manual Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Manual Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Manual Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Manual Testing over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 546 432
Rank change year-on-year +72 -114 -27
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 105 221 361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.30% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.36% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 76 186 195
10th Percentile £32,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £53,000 £52,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £56,250 £64,318 £70,500
UK median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% +11.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Manual Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Manual Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the UK excluding London

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Manual Testing in the UK excluding London

Manual Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Manual Testing in the UK excluding London

Manual Testing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +64 35 £43,750 -7.89% 41
Midlands +49 18 £41,500 -12.63% 16
South West +83 16 £40,000 +8.15% 12
East of England +47 16 £53,000 +41.33% 10
North of England +23 14 £35,000 -12.50% 30
West Midlands +47 13 £40,500 -36.47% 7
North East +56 7 £34,500 - 3
North West -10 6 £43,750 +16.67% 23
East Midlands +36 5 £55,000 +50.68% 9
Scotland +86 4 £47,500 +23.38% 5
Yorkshire +47 1 £35,000 -19.08% 4
Wales +37 1 £60,000 +33.33% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 9
Manual Testing
UK

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Magento
1 1 (0.95%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (20.00%) Azure
2 15 (14.29%) SaaS
3 10 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.71%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.81%) GitHub
6 3 (2.86%) BrowserStack
6 3 (2.86%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (1.90%) AWS
7 2 (1.90%) Slack
7 2 (1.90%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) 5G
1 4 (3.81%) SD-WAN
1 4 (3.81%) WAN
2 3 (2.86%) Firewall
3 1 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.95%) DHCP
3 1 (0.95%) DNS
3 1 (0.95%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.95%) FlexRay
3 1 (0.95%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.71%) Power BI
2 3 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.95%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 29 (27.62%) Selenium
2 22 (20.95%) Git
3 20 (19.05%) JIRA
4 9 (8.57%) Cypress.io
5 8 (7.62%) Appium
5 8 (7.62%) Postman
6 5 (4.76%) Jenkins
7 4 (3.81%) LabVIEW
7 4 (3.81%) TestRail
7 4 (3.81%) Zephyr
8 3 (2.86%) SoapUI
8 3 (2.86%) WebDriver
9 2 (1.90%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.90%) Gatling
9 2 (1.90%) LoadRunner
9 2 (1.90%) Locust
9 2 (1.90%) NUnit
9 2 (1.90%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.90%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.95%) Subversion
General
1 30 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.19%) Law
3 16 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.38%) Aerospace
5 9 (8.57%) Legal
6 5 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.81%) Electronics
8 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Finance
8 2 (1.90%) Games
8 2 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Automotive
9 1 (0.95%) Banking
9 1 (0.95%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.95%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.95%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (29.52%) Analyst
2 30 (28.57%) Test Analyst
3 24 (22.86%) Senior
4 16 (15.24%) QA Engineer
5 13 (12.38%) Tester
6 12 (11.43%) Senior QA Engineer
7 11 (10.48%) QA Analyst
8 10 (9.52%) QA Test Analyst
8 10 (9.52%) Test Engineer
9 9 (8.57%) Lead
10 6 (5.71%) Software Tester
11 5 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (4.76%) Senior Test Analyst
11 5 (4.76%) Technical Support
11 5 (4.76%) Test Leader
12 4 (3.81%) Automation Tester
12 4 (3.81%) Electronics Test Engineer
12 4 (3.81%) Product Engineer
12 4 (3.81%) Product Test Engineer
12 4 (3.81%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.38%) Qt
2 12 (11.43%) Playwright
3 5 (4.76%) .NET
4 4 (3.81%) pytest
5 3 (2.86%) REST
6 2 (1.90%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.90%) React Native
6 2 (1.90%) SOAP
6 2 (1.90%) XML
7 1 (0.95%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.95%) CSS
7 1 (0.95%) HTML
7 1 (0.95%) React
7 1 (0.95%) RESTful
7 1 (0.95%) WebGL
7 1 (0.95%) WebGPU
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.33%) Embedded Systems
2 7 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 7 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.81%) Self-Driving Car
5 2 (1.90%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.95%) AS400
6 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.95%) Infotainment
6 1 (0.95%) NHS
6 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.57%) Windows
2 5 (4.76%) Unix
3 2 (1.90%) Linux
3 2 (1.90%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.95%) Android
4 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.95%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (78.10%) Test Automation
2 51 (48.57%) Software Testing
3 42 (40.00%) Agile
4 35 (33.33%) Regression Testing
5 24 (22.86%) Test Scripting
6 20 (19.05%) Test Strategy
7 19 (18.10%) User Acceptance Testing
8 16 (15.24%) DevOps
8 16 (15.24%) Validation
9 15 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (13.33%) SDLC
11 13 (12.38%) Knowledge Transfer
11 13 (12.38%) Verification and Validation
12 11 (10.48%) API Testing
12 11 (10.48%) User Experience
13 10 (9.52%) CI/CD
13 10 (9.52%) Defect Tracking
13 10 (9.52%) Waterfall
14 9 (8.57%) Process Improvement
14 9 (8.57%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 30 (28.57%) Python
2 17 (16.19%) JavaScript
3 13 (12.38%) C
3 13 (12.38%) C++
3 13 (12.38%) SQL
4 10 (9.52%) C#
5 9 (8.57%) Java
6 8 (7.62%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.81%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.95%) Go
8 1 (0.95%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (29.52%) ISTQB
2 9 (8.57%) SC Cleared
2 9 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.71%) DBS Check
3 6 (5.71%) Degree
4 5 (4.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (3.81%) HND
6 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.95%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (45.71%) QA
2 3 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.90%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.95%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.95%) Firmware
2 1 (0.95%) Terminal Server
2 1 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.90%) SCCM
1 2 (1.90%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (6.67%) SAP
2 4 (3.81%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.86%) VMware
4 1 (0.95%) Cisco
4 1 (0.95%) Juniper
4 1 (0.95%) McAfee
4 1 (0.95%) Pega
4 1 (0.95%) Siebel
4 1 (0.95%) Spotify
4 1 (0.95%) UiPath