Manual Test Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Manual Test Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Manual Test Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £344 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 395 432 499
Rank change year-on-year +37 +67 -59
Contract jobs requiring a Manual Test Analyst 4 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.026% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.028% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 11
10th Percentile £292 £308 £256
25th Percentile £305 £319 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £346 £338
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% +2.59% +50.00%
75th Percentile £383 £388 £371
90th Percentile £408 £410 £395
UK median daily rate £363 £375 £350
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £49.50
UK median hourly rate - - £49.50
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,202 21,479 29,126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.24% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,609 14,946 20,475
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,077 1,407
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.02
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.06
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

Manual Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Manual Test Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

Manual Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Test Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Manual Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

Manual Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Test Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

Manual Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manual Test Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Manual Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

Manual Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Test Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Midlands +22 2 £344 -1.79%
West Midlands +17 2 £344 -
South East +11 1 £425 +24.09%
North of England - 1 £293 -
North West - 1 £293 -
Manual Test Analyst
UK

Manual Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Manual Test Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Manual Test Analyst in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (25.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (25.00%) Adobe
3 1 (25.00%) Salesforce

Manual Test Analyst Skill Set
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 1 (25.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (25.00%) SAP