Manual Testing Contracts in London

Manual Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 397 471
Rank change year-on-year +65 +74 -61
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 65 94 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.37% 0.36% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.40% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 78 89
10th Percentile £373 £308 £305
25th Percentile £413 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
England median daily rate £450 £500 £456
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.59% +14.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £23.44
90th Percentile - - £43.13
England median hourly rate £60.00 - £48.50
% change year-on-year - - +2.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,486 23,649 35,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.63% 90.88% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,107 17,073 26,082
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 267 418
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.30 £17.21
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.45 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £37.34 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% +2.55% +12.03%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.88 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.50 £67.69
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.75% +48.60% +8.70%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in London

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in London

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in London

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in London

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +48 13 £438 -30.00% 2
East London - 3 £340 -
South London +3 1 £475 +35.71%
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (7.69%) Confluence
2 3 (4.62%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Endur
1 1 (1.54%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (1.54%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.23%) Azure
2 15 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.15%) AWS
3 4 (6.15%) GCP
4 3 (4.62%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.08%) BlazeMeter
5 2 (3.08%) BrowserStack
5 2 (3.08%) Firebase
5 2 (3.08%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.54%) Boomi
6 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.54%) GitHub
6 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.54%) SaaS
6 1 (1.54%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) VLAN
1 4 (6.15%) Wireless
2 3 (4.62%) 5G
3 1 (1.54%) FTP
3 1 (1.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) Big Data
1 3 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (4.62%) Hadoop
1 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.54%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.54%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.54%) MySQL
2 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.54%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (24.62%) Selenium
2 14 (21.54%) JIRA
3 12 (18.46%) Visual Studio
4 10 (15.38%) Postman
4 10 (15.38%) SpecFlow
5 9 (13.85%) Jenkins
6 8 (12.31%) Appium
6 8 (12.31%) Cypress.io
7 7 (10.77%) Git
8 6 (9.23%) WebDriver
9 4 (6.15%) LoadRunner
9 4 (6.15%) Moq
9 4 (6.15%) Rational Performance Tester
10 3 (4.62%) GitLab
10 3 (4.62%) JMeter
10 3 (4.62%) NUnit
11 2 (3.08%) Bitbucket
11 2 (3.08%) Cucumber
12 1 (1.54%) Gerrit
12 1 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 15 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.92%) Finance
3 9 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 8 (12.31%) Back Office
4 8 (12.31%) Banking
5 4 (6.15%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.08%) Electronics
6 2 (3.08%) Legal
6 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.08%) Marketing
6 2 (3.08%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.54%) Front Office
7 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.54%) Local Government
7 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (29.23%) Analyst
2 18 (27.69%) Test Analyst
2 18 (27.69%) Tester
3 13 (20.00%) Senior
4 12 (18.46%) Manual Tester
5 10 (15.38%) Senior Analyst
5 10 (15.38%) Senior Test Analyst
6 9 (13.85%) Test Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) Developer
7 6 (9.23%) Lead
8 4 (6.15%) C# Developer
8 4 (6.15%) QA Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Automation Test Analyst
9 3 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) QA Leader
9 3 (4.62%) QA Tester
9 3 (4.62%) Test Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.08%) Consultant
10 2 (3.08%) Senior Software Developer
10 2 (3.08%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.00%) .NET
2 7 (10.77%) ADO
3 5 (7.69%) .NET Framework
4 4 (6.15%) AngularJS
4 4 (6.15%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (6.15%) Entity Framework
5 3 (4.62%) .NET Core
5 3 (4.62%) Kafka
5 3 (4.62%) Playwright
5 3 (4.62%) XML
6 2 (3.08%) CSS
6 2 (3.08%) Gherkin
6 2 (3.08%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.08%) HTML
6 2 (3.08%) Middleware
6 2 (3.08%) WebdriverIO
7 1 (1.54%) ebXML
7 1 (1.54%) JSON
7 1 (1.54%) REST
7 1 (1.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Mobile App
2 6 (9.23%) Derivative
3 4 (6.15%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.08%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.54%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.54%) PDA
6 1 (1.54%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.54%) Replication
6 1 (1.54%) Robotics
6 1 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.54%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.54%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.23%) Linux
2 4 (6.15%) Android
3 3 (4.62%) Windows
4 2 (3.08%) Unix
5 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (66.15%) Test Automation
2 37 (56.92%) Agile
3 20 (30.77%) DevOps
3 20 (30.77%) Software Testing
4 17 (26.15%) Acceptance Criteria
5 16 (24.62%) Scrum
6 15 (23.08%) Non-Functional Testing
6 15 (23.08%) Scenario Testing
6 15 (23.08%) Test Strategy
7 14 (21.54%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (20.00%) Performance Testing
8 13 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
9 12 (18.46%) BDD
9 12 (18.46%) CI/CD
10 11 (16.92%) End-to-End Testing
11 9 (13.85%) Test Planning
12 7 (10.77%) Functional Testing
12 7 (10.77%) TDD
12 7 (10.77%) Test Management
12 7 (10.77%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 18 (27.69%) C#
2 12 (18.46%) Java
2 12 (18.46%) Python
3 11 (16.92%) SQL
4 10 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.15%) Bash
5 4 (6.15%) Kotlin
5 4 (6.15%) Perl
5 4 (6.15%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.08%) R
7 1 (1.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (10.77%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.69%) Degree
3 4 (6.15%) DV Cleared
3 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.08%) ISEB
4 2 (3.08%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.54%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.54%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.54%) QA
2 5 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (9.23%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.15%) Iperf
3 1 (1.54%) Ansible
3 1 (1.54%) Grafana
3 1 (1.54%) Graylog
3 1 (1.54%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.54%) HP Fortify
3 1 (1.54%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.54%) Nagios
3 1 (1.54%) Nessus
3 1 (1.54%) Opsgenie
3 1 (1.54%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.54%) Puppet
3 1 (1.54%) Terraform
3 1 (1.54%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 9 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.69%) HP
3 4 (6.15%) IBM
4 2 (3.08%) Aderant
4 2 (3.08%) SAP
4 2 (3.08%) Splunk
5 1 (1.54%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.54%) Dell
5 1 (1.54%) NEC
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle
5 1 (1.54%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.54%) Perfecto Mobile
5 1 (1.54%) Veracode