Manual Testing Job Trends in Yorkshire

Manual Testing
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Manual Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 143 174
Rank change year-on-year -15 +31 +81
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 2 10 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.060% 0.32% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% 0.36% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 7
10th Percentile - £26,500 £35,900
25th Percentile £56,250 £27,063 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £31,243 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year +84.04% -24.72% +10.67%
75th Percentile £58,750 £36,659 £55,625
90th Percentile - £52,375 £67,000
England median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,627 2,813 2,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 78.42% 90.51% 88.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,523 1,083 2,331
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £40,969 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%
75th Percentile £69,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Manual Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Manual Testing job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Manual Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Manual Testing

Manual Testing
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
West Yorkshire -19 2 £57,500 +25.00% 2
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Security Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JWT
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk