Manual Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Manual Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 314 363 355
Rank change year-on-year +49 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 64 72 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.31% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.35% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 53 106
10th Percentile £298 £340 £293
25th Percentile £356 £400 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £423
Median % change year-on-year - +6.32% +9.23%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £488
90th Percentile £590 £666 £541
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile £58.75 - £44.38
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £49.75
75th Percentile £61.25 - £52.00
90th Percentile - - £58.43
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - +0.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,095 20,476 27,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.93% 89.37% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,219 14,070 18,908
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £377 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,248 1,358
10th Percentile £12.37 £10.63 £12.29
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.63 £62.18
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the UK excluding London

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in the UK excluding London

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in the UK excluding London

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in the UK excluding London

Manual Testing
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 Testing 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 +22 18 £400 -5.88% 14
South East +19 16 £444 -11.25% 12
Midlands +41 13 £363 -9.38% 6
South West +14 13 £590 +6.35% 10
North West +19 9 £450 - 7
Yorkshire +17 9 £400 -5.88% 5
West Midlands +20 7 £288 -31.55% 4
East Midlands +20 6 £363 +21.85% 2
Wales +24 4 £509 - 2
Manual Testing
UK

Manual Testing
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 5 (7.81%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.69%) Azure
2 15 (23.44%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (9.38%) GitHub
4 4 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.69%) AWS
6 2 (3.13%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.56%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.56%) GCP
7 1 (1.56%) SaaS
7 1 (1.56%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) HTTP
1 4 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.56%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.81%) Oracle Database
2 4 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.13%) Big Data
3 2 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.13%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.56%) MySQL
4 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (29.69%) Selenium
2 17 (26.56%) Git
3 14 (21.88%) Postman
4 13 (20.31%) JIRA
5 10 (15.63%) Jenkins
6 9 (14.06%) Cypress.io
7 8 (12.50%) Visual Studio
8 6 (9.38%) NUnit
8 6 (9.38%) WebDriver
9 5 (7.81%) Cucumber
9 5 (7.81%) JMeter
10 4 (6.25%) Artifactory
10 4 (6.25%) Bitbucket
10 4 (6.25%) Gatling
11 2 (3.13%) GitLab
11 2 (3.13%) TestCafe
12 1 (1.56%) Burp Suite
12 1 (1.56%) GoCD
12 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
12 1 (1.56%) TestRail
General
1 15 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.94%) Finance
3 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.13%) Marketing
4 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.56%) Banking
5 1 (1.56%) Electronics
5 1 (1.56%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.56%) Law
5 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (29.69%) Analyst
2 18 (28.13%) Test Analyst
3 15 (23.44%) Senior
3 15 (23.44%) Test Engineer
4 14 (21.88%) Tester
5 12 (18.75%) Senior Test Engineer
6 11 (17.19%) Automation Tester
7 7 (10.94%) Test Automation Engineer
8 6 (9.38%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 6 (9.38%) Software Engineer
9 5 (7.81%) Data Analyst
9 5 (7.81%) Oracle Analyst
10 4 (6.25%) Development Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) Manual Test Analyst
10 4 (6.25%) Manual Tester
10 4 (6.25%) Software Development Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) Test Development Engineer
11 3 (4.69%) Linux Engineer
11 3 (4.69%) Test Manager
12 2 (3.13%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.19%) .NET
2 7 (10.94%) Kafka
2 7 (10.94%) Playwright
2 7 (10.94%) XML
3 6 (9.38%) AngularJS
4 5 (7.81%) GraphQL
4 5 (7.81%) RESTful
5 4 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (6.25%) SOAP
5 4 (6.25%) Web Services
6 3 (4.69%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (4.69%) JSON
6 3 (4.69%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (3.13%) .NET Core
8 1 (1.56%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.56%) HTML
8 1 (1.56%) REST
8 1 (1.56%) Spring
8 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.13%) NHS
4 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Linux
2 5 (7.81%) Unix
2 5 (7.81%) Windows
3 4 (6.25%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (6.25%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.56%) Android
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (67.19%) Test Automation
2 36 (56.25%) Agile
3 21 (32.81%) DevOps
4 20 (31.25%) Test Strategy
5 18 (28.13%) Software Testing
6 17 (26.56%) Performance Testing
7 15 (23.44%) CI/CD
7 15 (23.44%) Test Scripting
8 13 (20.31%) Scrum
9 12 (18.75%) BDD
9 12 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (17.19%) Scenario Testing
10 11 (17.19%) Security Testing
10 11 (17.19%) Waterfall
11 10 (15.63%) TDD
12 9 (14.06%) API Testing
12 9 (14.06%) Kanban
12 9 (14.06%) User Acceptance Testing
13 8 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
13 8 (12.50%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (21.88%) Java
1 14 (21.88%) SQL
2 10 (15.63%) JavaScript
2 10 (15.63%) Python
3 8 (12.50%) C#
4 7 (10.94%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.25%) C++
5 4 (6.25%) Groovy
5 4 (6.25%) Scala
5 4 (6.25%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.69%) Bash
7 2 (3.13%) Perl
8 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (7.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.25%) Degree
2 4 (6.25%) ISTQB
3 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) ISEB
5 1 (1.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.06%) QA
2 7 (10.94%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (12.50%) Docker
2 4 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (6.25%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.13%) Grafana
3 1 (1.56%) Ansible
3 1 (1.56%) Graylog
3 1 (1.56%) HP Fortify
3 1 (1.56%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.56%) Kibana
3 1 (1.56%) Nagios
3 1 (1.56%) Nessus
3 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.56%) Puppet
3 1 (1.56%) Terraform
3 1 (1.56%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) Oracle
2 9 (14.06%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.13%) SAP
4 1 (1.56%) Adobe
4 1 (1.56%) Brio
4 1 (1.56%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.56%) Splunk
4 1 (1.56%) Veracode