Manual Testing Contracts in England

Manual Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Manual Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Manual Testing over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 472 522
Rank change year-on-year +56 +50 -41
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 126 168 280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.35% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.39% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 129 183
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £375 £406 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.11% +23.33%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £575
90th Percentile £644 £700 £635
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% +22.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 13
10th Percentile - £51.63 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £52.19 £16.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £53.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% +19.44% -5.01%
75th Percentile £61.25 £54.69 £54.25
90th Percentile - £54.88 £60.69
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £53.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.63% +53.57% -26.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,636 42,957 64,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.67% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,638 30,177 45,793
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,325 1,518 1,713
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Manual Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in England

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in England.

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in England

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in England

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in England

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +70 63 £494 -10.18% 13
North of England +25 19 £400 -5.88% 8
South East +9 16 £444 -11.25% 12
Midlands +33 14 £363 -9.38% 6
South West +9 11 £590 +6.35% 10
Yorkshire +21 10 £400 -5.88%
West Midlands +20 9 £303 -27.98% 3
North West +13 9 £375 -12.79% 6
East Midlands +13 5 £363 +7.41% 3
Manual Testing
UK

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (8.73%) Confluence
2 4 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.79%) Endur
2 1 (0.79%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.79%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 36 (28.57%) Azure
2 29 (23.02%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (3.97%) AWS
4 4 (3.17%) BrowserStack
4 4 (3.17%) GCP
4 4 (3.17%) OpenShift
5 3 (2.38%) BlazeMeter
5 3 (2.38%) Firebase
5 3 (2.38%) SaaS
5 3 (2.38%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 2 (1.59%) GitHub
7 1 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.79%) Boomi
7 1 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.79%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.17%) HTTP
1 4 (3.17%) TCP/IP
1 4 (3.17%) VLAN
1 4 (3.17%) Wireless
2 3 (2.38%) 5G
3 1 (0.79%) FTP
3 1 (0.79%) SMS
3 1 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.97%) Oracle Database
2 4 (3.17%) Big Data
2 4 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.17%) Hadoop
2 4 (3.17%) MongoDB
2 4 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.79%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.79%) MySQL
3 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (28.57%) Selenium
2 28 (22.22%) JIRA
3 23 (18.25%) Git
4 22 (17.46%) Postman
5 20 (15.87%) Visual Studio
6 19 (15.08%) Jenkins
7 14 (11.11%) Cypress.io
8 12 (9.52%) SpecFlow
8 12 (9.52%) WebDriver
9 10 (7.94%) Appium
10 9 (7.14%) JMeter
10 9 (7.14%) NUnit
11 7 (5.56%) Cucumber
12 6 (4.76%) Bitbucket
13 5 (3.97%) Gatling
13 5 (3.97%) GitLab
14 4 (3.17%) Artifactory
14 4 (3.17%) LoadRunner
14 4 (3.17%) Moq
14 4 (3.17%) Rational Performance Tester
General
1 29 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.29%) Finance
3 15 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.94%) Banking
6 8 (6.35%) Back Office
7 5 (3.97%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.17%) Legal
8 4 (3.17%) Marketing
8 4 (3.17%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.38%) Electronics
9 3 (2.38%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.59%) Retail
11 1 (0.79%) Front Office
11 1 (0.79%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.79%) Law
11 1 (0.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 37 (29.37%) Analyst
2 35 (27.78%) Test Analyst
3 32 (25.40%) Tester
4 27 (21.43%) Senior
5 23 (18.25%) Test Engineer
6 16 (12.70%) Manual Tester
7 13 (10.32%) Senior Test Engineer
8 11 (8.73%) Automation Tester
8 11 (8.73%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (8.73%) Senior Test Analyst
9 10 (7.94%) Test Automation Engineer
10 8 (6.35%) Lead
11 7 (5.56%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
12 6 (4.76%) Software Engineer
13 5 (3.97%) Data Analyst
13 5 (3.97%) Developer
13 5 (3.97%) Oracle Analyst
13 5 (3.97%) QA Tester
14 4 (3.17%) Software Development Engineer
14 4 (3.17%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (17.46%) .NET
2 10 (7.94%) AngularJS
2 10 (7.94%) XML
3 9 (7.14%) Kafka
4 7 (5.56%) ADO
4 7 (5.56%) GraphQL
4 7 (5.56%) Playwright
5 6 (4.76%) .NET Framework
6 5 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (3.97%) RESTful
6 5 (3.97%) Web Services
7 4 (3.17%) .NET Core
7 4 (3.17%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (3.17%) Entity Framework
7 4 (3.17%) JSON
7 4 (3.17%) SOAP
8 3 (2.38%) HTML
8 3 (2.38%) Middleware
8 3 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (2.38%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.94%) Mobile App
2 6 (4.76%) Derivative
2 6 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.17%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.17%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 2 (1.59%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.59%) NHS
4 2 (1.59%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.79%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.79%) PDA
5 1 (0.79%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.79%) Replication
5 1 (0.79%) Robotics
5 1 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.79%) Thin Client
5 1 (0.79%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.73%) Linux
2 8 (6.35%) Windows
3 7 (5.56%) Unix
4 5 (3.97%) Android
5 4 (3.17%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (3.17%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 72 (57.14%) Agile
3 41 (32.54%) DevOps
4 38 (30.16%) Software Testing
5 31 (24.60%) Test Strategy
6 30 (23.81%) Performance Testing
7 27 (21.43%) Scrum
8 26 (20.63%) Continuous Integration
8 26 (20.63%) Scenario Testing
9 25 (19.84%) User Acceptance Testing
10 24 (19.05%) BDD
10 24 (19.05%) CI/CD
11 22 (17.46%) Non-Functional Testing
12 20 (15.87%) Test Scripting
13 19 (15.08%) Acceptance Criteria
14 17 (13.49%) TDD
15 16 (12.70%) End-to-End Testing
15 16 (12.70%) Test Planning
16 15 (11.90%) API Testing
16 15 (11.90%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.63%) C#
1 26 (20.63%) Java
2 25 (19.84%) SQL
3 19 (15.08%) JavaScript
3 19 (15.08%) Python
4 10 (7.94%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.97%) Bash
5 5 (3.97%) Perl
6 4 (3.17%) C++
6 4 (3.17%) Groovy
6 4 (3.17%) Kotlin
6 4 (3.17%) Scala
6 4 (3.17%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.59%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.59%) R
8 1 (0.79%) Ruby
8 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (7.14%) Degree
1 9 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.97%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.17%) DV Cleared
3 4 (3.17%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.38%) ISEB
5 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.87%) QA
2 12 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.59%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (9.52%) Docker
2 4 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.17%) VirtualBox
3 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.17%) Iperf
3 2 (1.59%) Grafana
3 2 (1.59%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.79%) Ansible
4 1 (0.79%) Graylog
4 1 (0.79%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.79%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.79%) Kibana
4 1 (0.79%) Nagios
4 1 (0.79%) Nessus
4 1 (0.79%) Opsgenie
4 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.79%) Puppet
4 1 (0.79%) Terraform
4 1 (0.79%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 15 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.11%) Oracle
3 5 (3.97%) HP
4 4 (3.17%) IBM
4 4 (3.17%) SAP
5 3 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.59%) Aderant
6 2 (1.59%) Splunk
7 1 (0.79%) Adobe
7 1 (0.79%) Brio
7 1 (0.79%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.79%) Dell
7 1 (0.79%) NEC
7 1 (0.79%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.79%) Perfecto Mobile
7 1 (0.79%) Veracode