Manual Tester Contracts with Work from Home Options

Manual Tester
UK > Work from Home

The median Manual Tester daily rate in Work from Home is £375 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 337 465 591
Rank change year-on-year +128 +126 -99
Contract jobs requiring a Manual Tester 8 5 25
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.055% 0.020% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.021% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 18
10th Percentile £230 £192 £281
25th Percentile £329 £197 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £313 £313
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £394 £438 £372
90th Percentile £410 - £491
UK median daily rate £356 £425 £350
% change year-on-year -16.18% +21.43% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,707 23,282 42,199
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.29% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,257 16,477 30,548
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 537 589
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.17 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.35
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +50.00% +48.94%
75th Percentile £64.53 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.17
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

Manual Tester
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Manual Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Manual Tester trend for jobs with a WFH option

Manual Tester
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Manual Tester.

Manual Tester daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Manual Tester
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Manual Tester over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Manual Tester daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Manual Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Manual Tester in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Manual Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (37.50%) User Stories
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
5 2 (25.00%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) QA
5 2 (25.00%) Selenium
5 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Linux
5 2 (25.00%) Java
5 2 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (25.00%) Azure
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (25.00%) Epics
5 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
6 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
6 1 (12.50%) Postman
6 1 (12.50%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
6 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (12.50%) Creative Thinking

Manual Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MariaDB
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) Gerrit
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) JUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Postman
2 1 (12.50%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (12.50%) TestNG
2 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ADO
1 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Manual Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
4 3 (37.50%) User Stories
5 2 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Epics
5 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
6 1 (12.50%) Creative Thinking
6 1 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
6 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (12.50%) Microservices
6 1 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft