Manual Tester Contracts in the UK excluding London

Manual Tester
UK > UK excluding London

The median Manual Tester daily rate in the UK excluding London is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 427 486
Rank change year-on-year +56 +59 -57
Contract jobs requiring a Manual Tester 7 8 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.035% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.037% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 17
10th Percentile £228 £344 £281
25th Percentile £308 £367 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £406 £350
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +16.07% +21.74%
75th Percentile £375 £438 £375
90th Percentile £390 - £427
UK median daily rate £356 £425 £350
% change year-on-year -16.18% +21.43% +25.00%

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 18,835 21,601 29,071
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.28% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,498 15,031 20,385
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 1,097 1,445
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.40
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.72 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +110.78% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.64 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

Manual Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Tester in the UK excluding London

Manual Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Tester in the UK excluding London

Manual Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Tester in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Tester in the UK excluding London

Manual Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Manual Tester in the UK excluding London

Manual Tester
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 Tester within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +25 2 £350 -17.65%
Yorkshire +19 2 £350 -17.65%
South East - 2 £200 -
Scotland - 2 £375 - 1
South West +13 1 £315 -
Manual Tester
UK

Manual Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Manual Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Manual Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Defect Tracking
3 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
3 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Postman
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) API Testing
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Agile Testing
3 2 (28.57%) MariaDB
3 2 (28.57%) Selenium
3 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 2 (28.57%) JSON
3 2 (28.57%) MySQL
3 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) XML
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) SMS
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Telecoms

Manual Tester 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MariaDB
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
1 2 (28.57%) Postman
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) Swagger
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Manual Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Defect Tracking
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Agile Testing
3 2 (28.57%) API Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
4 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft