Manual Testing Contracts in the South West

Manual Testing
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 155 146
Rank change year-on-year +14 -9 -16
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 13 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.41% 0.35% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.39% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 11
10th Percentile £460 £460 £356
25th Percentile £500 £503 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £555 £422
Median % change year-on-year +6.35% +31.61% +5.38%
75th Percentile - £690 £454
90th Percentile £624 £873 £488
England median daily rate £450 £500 £456
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.59% +14.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £48.20
25th Percentile - - £49.63
Median hourly rate - - £49.75
75th Percentile - - £52.00
90th Percentile - - £55.92
England median hourly rate £60.00 - £48.50
% change year-on-year - - +2.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,617 3,064 3,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.56% 89.54% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,676 2,236 2,299
10th Percentile £223 £313 £300
25th Percentile £404 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.43%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £724 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 316 208
10th Percentile £13.90 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.19 £21.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £59.90 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +22.88% +10.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.74 £69.26
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +10.23%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Manual Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the South West

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in the South West

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in the South West over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in the South West

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in the South West

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 23 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
Bristol +21 10 £571 - 1
Gloucestershire -4 2 £630 -27.17% 2
Somerset -6 1 £600 +10.65% 1
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (15.38%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
1 7 (53.85%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Big Data
1 2 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Cypress.io
1 6 (46.15%) Git
1 6 (46.15%) NUnit
1 6 (46.15%) Postman
1 6 (46.15%) Visual Studio
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Selenium
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Electronics
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Law
2 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.69%) Marketing
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Senior
1 7 (53.85%) Test Automation Engineer
1 7 (53.85%) Test Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Test Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Manual Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Test Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) .NET
2 6 (46.15%) AngularJS
3 5 (38.46%) GraphQL
3 5 (38.46%) Playwright
4 2 (15.38%) .NET Core
4 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (15.38%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Test Automation
2 10 (76.92%) Agile
3 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 8 (61.54%) Customer Requirements
3 8 (61.54%) DevOps
3 8 (61.54%) Performance Testing
3 8 (61.54%) Test Strategy
4 7 (53.85%) Security Testing
5 6 (46.15%) BDD
5 6 (46.15%) Kanban
5 6 (46.15%) Scrum
5 6 (46.15%) TDD
5 6 (46.15%) Waterfall
6 5 (38.46%) Load Testing
6 5 (38.46%) Non-Functional Testing
6 5 (38.46%) Task Automation
7 4 (30.77%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 2 (15.38%) Data Analytics
8 2 (15.38%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
1 6 (46.15%) TypeScript
2 4 (30.77%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) Perl
3 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) ISTQB
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Accessibility
2 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) SAP