Manual Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Manual Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 285 398 415
Rank change year-on-year +113 +17 +7
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 60 72 209
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.41% 0.29% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.33% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 55 127
10th Percentile £342 £336 £304
25th Percentile £375 £416 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +7.95% +13.55%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £525
90th Percentile £700 £665 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £29.88
25th Percentile £58.75 - £44.31
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £49.75
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - £59.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - +0.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,882 21,904 40,173
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.65% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,678 15,514 29,175
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 507 533
10th Percentile £14.83 £18.58 £14.30
25th Percentile £24.06 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +37.60% +58.98%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

Manual Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Manual Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Manual Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Manual Testing
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 Testing.

Manual Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Manual Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Manual Testing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Manual Testing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Manual Testing
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 7 (11.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.67%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.67%) Magento
2 1 (1.67%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (1.67%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 18 (30.00%) Azure
2 15 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.33%) BlazeMeter
4 2 (3.33%) BrowserStack
4 2 (3.33%) Firebase
4 2 (3.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) AWS
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.67%) Boomi
5 1 (1.67%) GitHub
5 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.67%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.67%) SaaS
5 1 (1.67%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) Big Data
1 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) Postman
2 10 (16.67%) JIRA
3 8 (13.33%) Cypress.io
3 8 (13.33%) Git
3 8 (13.33%) Selenium
3 8 (13.33%) Visual Studio
4 6 (10.00%) Jenkins
5 5 (8.33%) SpecFlow
6 4 (6.67%) Bitbucket
6 4 (6.67%) Moq
6 4 (6.67%) NUnit
7 3 (5.00%) Appium
7 3 (5.00%) Artifactory
7 3 (5.00%) GitLab
7 3 (5.00%) JMeter
8 2 (3.33%) TestCafe
9 1 (1.67%) GoCD
9 1 (1.67%) JUnit
9 1 (1.67%) Log4Net
9 1 (1.67%) Serenity BDD
General
1 14 (23.33%) Finance
2 10 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 7 (11.67%) Banking
5 4 (6.67%) Marketing
6 3 (5.00%) Back Office
6 3 (5.00%) Electronics
6 3 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Legal
8 1 (1.67%) Front Office
8 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.67%) Law
8 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (30.00%) Analyst
2 17 (28.33%) Test Analyst
3 12 (20.00%) Tester
4 11 (18.33%) Senior
5 10 (16.67%) Test Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Lead
6 6 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (10.00%) Senior Test Analyst
7 5 (8.33%) Developer
7 5 (8.33%) Manual Tester
8 4 (6.67%) C# Developer
8 4 (6.67%) QA Tester
8 4 (6.67%) Senior Test Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Test Manager
9 3 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) QA Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Software Development Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Software Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.00%) .NET
2 5 (8.33%) .NET Framework
3 4 (6.67%) Entity Framework
3 4 (6.67%) Playwright
3 4 (6.67%) XML
4 3 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.00%) GraphQL
4 3 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (5.00%) RESTful
4 3 (5.00%) SOAP
5 2 (3.33%) Middleware
5 2 (3.33%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (1.67%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.67%) JSON
6 1 (1.67%) Kafka
6 1 (1.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Derivative
2 4 (6.67%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 3 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.67%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) NHS
5 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Replication
5 1 (1.67%) Robotics
5 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.67%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.67%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.00%) Linux
2 4 (6.67%) Windows
3 3 (5.00%) Android
3 3 (5.00%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (61.67%) Test Automation
2 31 (51.67%) Agile
3 21 (35.00%) Software Testing
4 20 (33.33%) DevOps
5 15 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 13 (21.67%) Scrum
7 12 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (18.33%) CI/CD
8 11 (18.33%) Performance Testing
9 10 (16.67%) BDD
9 10 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
9 10 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
9 10 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
10 9 (15.00%) Integration Testing
10 9 (15.00%) Test Planning
10 9 (15.00%) Test Scripting
11 8 (13.33%) End-to-End Testing
11 8 (13.33%) TDD
11 8 (13.33%) Waterfall
12 7 (11.67%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.00%) SQL
2 9 (15.00%) C#
3 7 (11.67%) Python
4 6 (10.00%) Java
5 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.00%) C++
6 3 (5.00%) Kotlin
6 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.33%) R
8 1 (1.67%) Bash
8 1 (1.67%) Perl
8 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.33%) ISTQB
1 5 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.00%) Degree
2 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.67%) QA
2 7 (11.67%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Docker
2 3 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (5.00%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.67%) Grafana
2 1 (1.67%) Kibana
2 1 (1.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.67%) Oracle
3 3 (5.00%) SAP
4 2 (3.33%) Aderant
4 2 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.67%) Adobe
5 1 (1.67%) Dell
5 1 (1.67%) Fujitsu
5 1 (1.67%) NEC
5 1 (1.67%) Perfecto Mobile
5 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow