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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 538 399
Rank change year-on-year +41 -139 +10
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 97 196 330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.27% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.33% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 72 161 191
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £50,625 £52,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £54,800 £65,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £46,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.22% -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 37,974 58,724 48,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 87.75% 80.45% 95.71%
Number of salaries quoted 19,555 38,942 27,725
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,951 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +62 39 £40,000 -15.79% 21
East of England +30 16 £53,000 +41.33% 10
South West +62 15 £40,000 +8.15% 9
North of England +44 13 £35,000 -6.67% 15
Midlands +47 8 £40,000 -20.00% 6
West Midlands +38 7 £42,500 -33.33% 2
North East - 7 £34,500 - 3
North West -8 4 £42,500 +13.33% 6
Scotland +62 3 £47,500 +23.38% 1
Yorkshire +37 2 £35,000 -22.22% 6
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 5
East Midlands +36 1 £35,000 -16.67% 4
Wales +29 1 £60,000 -12.09% 1
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 2 (2.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Magento
1 1 (1.03%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.46%) Azure
2 12 (12.37%) SaaS
3 6 (6.19%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.09%) AWS
5 3 (3.09%) BrowserStack
5 3 (3.09%) Sauce Labs
6 2 (2.06%) Slack
6 2 (2.06%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (1.03%) DHCP
2 1 (1.03%) DNS
2 1 (1.03%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.19%) Power BI
2 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.03%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 25 (25.77%) Selenium
2 22 (22.68%) Git
3 21 (21.65%) JIRA
4 9 (9.28%) Cypress.io
4 9 (9.28%) Postman
5 8 (8.25%) Jenkins
6 7 (7.22%) Appium
7 5 (5.15%) SoapUI
8 4 (4.12%) TestRail
9 3 (3.09%) WebDriver
10 2 (2.06%) CircleCI
10 2 (2.06%) Gatling
10 2 (2.06%) JMeter
10 2 (2.06%) LoadRunner
10 2 (2.06%) Locust
10 2 (2.06%) NUnit
10 2 (2.06%) SpecFlow
10 2 (2.06%) Subversion
10 2 (2.06%) Visual Studio
10 2 (2.06%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (29.90%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.53%) Law
3 14 (14.43%) Aerospace
4 11 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.28%) Legal
6 3 (3.09%) Finance
7 2 (2.06%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.06%) Games
7 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Automotive
8 1 (1.03%) Banking
8 1 (1.03%) Electronics
8 1 (1.03%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 26 (26.80%) Analyst
2 22 (22.68%) Senior
3 21 (21.65%) Test Analyst
4 18 (18.56%) Tester
5 15 (15.46%) QA Analyst
6 12 (12.37%) QA Engineer
7 10 (10.31%) QA Test Analyst
7 10 (10.31%) Senior QA Engineer
8 9 (9.28%) Software Tester
9 7 (7.22%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 7 (7.22%) Test Specialist
10 5 (5.15%) Technical Support
11 4 (4.12%) Automation Tester
11 4 (4.12%) Developer
11 4 (4.12%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 4 (4.12%) Junior
11 4 (4.12%) Junior Analyst
11 4 (4.12%) Junior QA Analyst
11 4 (4.12%) Manual Tester
11 4 (4.12%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.43%) Playwright
2 13 (13.40%) Qt
3 5 (5.15%) .NET
4 4 (4.12%) REST
4 4 (4.12%) SOAP
4 4 (4.12%) XML
5 2 (2.06%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.03%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.03%) CSS
6 1 (1.03%) HTML
6 1 (1.03%) React Native
6 1 (1.03%) RESTful
6 1 (1.03%) WebGL
6 1 (1.03%) WebGPU
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.46%) Embedded Systems
2 6 (6.19%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.06%) AS400
3 2 (2.06%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.03%) CAN bus
4 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.03%) FMCG
4 1 (1.03%) IoT
4 1 (1.03%) NHS
4 1 (1.03%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.28%) Windows
2 5 (5.15%) Windows Server
2 5 (5.15%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (3.09%) Linux
4 1 (1.03%) Android
4 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.03%) Kali Linux
4 1 (1.03%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (81.44%) Test Automation
2 62 (63.92%) Software Testing
3 42 (43.30%) Agile
4 32 (32.99%) Test Scripting
5 30 (30.93%) Regression Testing
6 15 (15.46%) Validation
7 13 (13.40%) CI/CD
7 13 (13.40%) Knowledge Transfer
7 13 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (13.40%) Process Improvement
7 13 (13.40%) Verification and Validation
8 12 (12.37%) Test Strategy
8 12 (12.37%) User Acceptance Testing
9 10 (10.31%) API Testing
9 10 (10.31%) Defect Management
9 10 (10.31%) Defect Tracking
9 10 (10.31%) DevOps
9 10 (10.31%) Waterfall
10 9 (9.28%) Scenario Testing
10 9 (9.28%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 25 (25.77%) Python
2 19 (19.59%) SQL
3 18 (18.56%) JavaScript
4 13 (13.40%) C
4 13 (13.40%) C++
5 10 (10.31%) Java
5 10 (10.31%) TypeScript
6 8 (8.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 26 (26.80%) ISTQB
2 10 (10.31%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.28%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.19%) DBS Check
5 4 (4.12%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (2.06%) Degree
8 1 (1.03%) CHECK Team Leader
8 1 (1.03%) CHECK Team Member
8 1 (1.03%) HNC
8 1 (1.03%) HND
8 1 (1.03%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (45.36%) QA
2 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.03%) NCSC
3 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.15%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.12%) Terminal Server
2 4 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.06%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (2.06%) Firmware
4 1 (1.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.15%) SCCM
1 5 (5.15%) SCOM
2 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.03%) Nessus
Vendors
1 6 (6.19%) VMware
2 4 (4.12%) Cisco
2 4 (4.12%) Juniper
2 4 (4.12%) McAfee
3 3 (3.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.03%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.03%) EMC
4 1 (1.03%) Pega
4 1 (1.03%) Siebel
4 1 (1.03%) Spotify
4 1 (1.03%) UiPath