Manual Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Manual Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Manual Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Manual Testing over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 421 413
Rank change year-on-year -129 -8 -21
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 225 390 560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.64% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.66% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 192 217 387
10th Percentile £33,775 £32,800 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £52,500 £58,062 £50,000
90th Percentile £65,773 £72,500 £61,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Manual Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,360 58,686 66,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 95.63% 94.02%
Number of salaries quoted 41,074 30,149 41,547
10th Percentile £27,041 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 -33 47 £47,500 +5.56% 10
South West -15 46 £36,984 -20.20% 6
Scotland -58 43 £38,500 -38.40% 1
Midlands +19 36 £48,750 +20.37% 9
North of England -48 28 £40,000 -11.11% 15
West Midlands +24 21 £63,749 +21.43% 8
East of England -12 18 £37,500 -6.25% 1
North West -26 16 £37,500 -26.11% 8
East Midlands -18 15 £36,500 -8.75% 1
Yorkshire +47 11 £45,000 +16.13% 7
Wales +1 4 £45,000 +2.27% 2
Northern Ireland +28 3 - -
North East -8 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 (0.89%) CMS
2 1 (0.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.89%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 46 (20.44%) Azure
2 26 (11.56%) SaaS
3 25 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 23 (10.22%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (9.78%) PowerApps
6 19 (8.44%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (6.67%) AWS
8 11 (4.89%) Power Automate
9 9 (4.00%) BlazeMeter
10 7 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.22%) BrowserStack
12 2 (0.89%) Azure Functions
12 2 (0.89%) npm
12 2 (0.89%) Serverless
12 2 (0.89%) Yarn
13 1 (0.44%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.78%) SSH
2 1 (0.44%) Broadband
2 1 (0.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.56%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.22%) Power BI
3 13 (5.78%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.78%) MariaDB
4 4 (1.78%) MySQL
4 4 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.33%) Big Data
5 3 (1.33%) Tableau
6 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.44%) GIS
Development Applications
1 43 (19.11%) Selenium
2 36 (16.00%) JIRA
3 26 (11.56%) Cypress.io
4 21 (9.33%) Cucumber
4 21 (9.33%) Git
4 21 (9.33%) WebDriver
5 16 (7.11%) Jenkins
6 15 (6.67%) JMeter
6 15 (6.67%) Visual Studio
7 11 (4.89%) NUnit
7 11 (4.89%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (4.44%) Postman
9 9 (4.00%) Gradle
9 9 (4.00%) Maven
10 8 (3.56%) Appium
10 8 (3.56%) UI Automator
11 7 (3.11%) SoapUI
12 5 (2.22%) TestRail
13 4 (1.78%) REST Assured
13 4 (1.78%) SpecFlow
General
1 86 (38.22%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 32 (14.22%) Finance
4 31 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (12.00%) Law
6 22 (9.78%) Fire and Rescue
7 19 (8.44%) Marketing
8 15 (6.67%) Legal
9 13 (5.78%) Banking
10 12 (5.33%) Automotive
10 12 (5.33%) Investment Banking
11 10 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (4.00%) Public Sector
13 7 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (3.11%) Retail
14 5 (2.22%) Electronics
14 5 (2.22%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.78%) Aviation
16 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 42 (18.67%) Test Engineer
2 37 (16.44%) Analyst
3 35 (15.56%) QA Engineer
4 31 (13.78%) Developer
5 28 (12.44%) Tester
6 24 (10.67%) Software Tester
7 23 (10.22%) Test Analyst
8 22 (9.78%) Lead
9 14 (6.22%) Test Leader
10 13 (5.78%) QA Leader
11 11 (4.89%) Applications Developer
11 11 (4.89%) Software Developer
12 10 (4.44%) Business Analyst
12 10 (4.44%) Java Engineer
12 10 (4.44%) Software Engineer
13 9 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
13 9 (4.00%) QA Software Engineer
13 9 (4.00%) Test Automation Engineer
14 7 (3.11%) Software Test Engineer
14 7 (3.11%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.33%) .NET
2 12 (5.33%) REST
3 11 (4.89%) Spring
3 11 (4.89%) XML
4 10 (4.44%) .NET Core
4 10 (4.44%) JSON
5 9 (4.00%) Ext JS
5 9 (4.00%) React
5 9 (4.00%) Spring Boot
6 8 (3.56%) CSS
6 8 (3.56%) HTML
7 7 (3.11%) Playwright
8 6 (2.67%) SOAP
9 5 (2.22%) Gherkin
10 4 (1.78%) ADO
10 4 (1.78%) CSS3
10 4 (1.78%) DOM
10 4 (1.78%) HTML5
10 4 (1.78%) Laravel
10 4 (1.78%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.78%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.33%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.00%) Market Risk
3 9 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.56%) Algorithms
4 8 (3.56%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.11%) Credit Derivative
5 7 (3.11%) Derivative
5 7 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.11%) Fixed Income
5 7 (3.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (3.11%) Hedge funds
5 7 (3.11%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 7 (3.11%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.11%) Reference Data
6 6 (2.67%) Smartphone
7 5 (2.22%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.78%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.44%) Windows
2 17 (7.56%) Linux
3 8 (3.56%) Mac OS
4 6 (2.67%) Unix
5 3 (1.33%) Android
6 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.89%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.44%) CentOS
7 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (73.78%) Test Automation
2 143 (63.56%) Agile
3 75 (33.33%) DevOps
4 62 (27.56%) Software Testing
5 57 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (22.67%) User Experience
7 47 (20.89%) SDLC
7 47 (20.89%) Test Scripting
8 42 (18.67%) Scrum
9 41 (18.22%) Regression Testing
10 32 (14.22%) Code Quality
11 30 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
12 28 (12.44%) Test Strategy
13 27 (12.00%) API Testing
14 26 (11.56%) CI/CD
15 24 (10.67%) BDD
15 24 (10.67%) Computer Science
16 22 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
16 22 (9.78%) Microservices
17 21 (9.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 74 (32.89%) SQL
2 58 (25.78%) Java
3 45 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 37 (16.44%) C#
5 29 (12.89%) Python
6 7 (3.11%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.78%) PHP
8 3 (1.33%) C
8 3 (1.33%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.89%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.44%) Bash
Qualifications
1 43 (19.11%) Degree
2 36 (16.00%) ISTQB
3 18 (8.00%) ISEB
4 17 (7.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.56%) Security Cleared
6 6 (2.67%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.78%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.33%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.33%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.89%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.89%) HND
10 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (51.11%) QA
2 2 (0.89%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.89%) ISO 14001
2 2 (0.89%) ISO 9001
2 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.89%) SLA
3 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.44%) Firmware
2 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.22%) Grafana
1 5 (2.22%) Kibana
2 1 (0.44%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 45 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.00%) TOWER Software
3 7 (3.11%) Oracle
4 4 (1.78%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.89%) SAP
6 1 (0.44%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.44%) BT
6 1 (0.44%) Databricks
6 1 (0.44%) HP
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.44%) VMware