Manual Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Manual Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Manual Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 552 440 401
Rank change year-on-year -112 -39 -24
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 217 370 571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.63% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.66% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 187 201 392
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £63,955 £72,500 £59,589
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.89% +4.60%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,251 56,179 68,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.03% 95.60% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 41,534 28,920 41,183
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Manual Testing in the UK excluding London

Manual Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Manual Testing in the UK excluding London

Manual Testing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -35 47 £47,500 +5.56% 14
South West -12 43 £36,984 -22.14% 9
Scotland -53 40 £38,500 -38.40% 3
Midlands -7 34 £47,500 +17.28% 6
North of England -36 30 £41,000 -8.89% 14
West Midlands +17 21 £63,749 +22.52% 4
East of England -20 19 £37,500 -6.25% 2
North West -29 18 £37,500 -25.00% 7
East Midlands -12 13 £36,500 -8.75% 2
Yorkshire +41 11 £45,000 +12.50% 5
Wales -3 4 £45,000 +2.27% 2
North East -12 1 - - 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 2 (0.92%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (3.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.92%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 45 (20.74%) Azure
2 23 (10.60%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (10.14%) Power Platform
3 22 (10.14%) PowerApps
3 22 (10.14%) SaaS
4 19 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (7.37%) AWS
6 11 (5.07%) Power Automate
7 9 (4.15%) BlazeMeter
8 7 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.30%) BrowserStack
10 2 (0.92%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.92%) npm
10 2 (0.92%) Serverless
10 2 (0.92%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.30%) SSH
2 1 (0.46%) Broadband
2 1 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.29%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.45%) Relational Database
3 11 (5.07%) Power BI
4 5 (2.30%) MariaDB
4 5 (2.30%) MySQL
4 5 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.46%) GIS
Development Applications
1 45 (20.74%) Selenium
2 35 (16.13%) JIRA
3 25 (11.52%) Cypress.io
4 20 (9.22%) Git
5 18 (8.29%) WebDriver
6 16 (7.37%) Cucumber
6 16 (7.37%) Jenkins
6 16 (7.37%) JMeter
7 15 (6.91%) Visual Studio
8 12 (5.53%) Postman
9 11 (5.07%) NUnit
9 11 (5.07%) Team Foundation Server
10 9 (4.15%) Gradle
10 9 (4.15%) Maven
11 8 (3.69%) Appium
11 8 (3.69%) UI Automator
12 7 (3.23%) SoapUI
13 5 (2.30%) TestRail
14 4 (1.84%) SpecFlow
15 3 (1.38%) GitLab
General
1 82 (37.79%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (12.90%) Finance
4 24 (11.06%) Law
5 22 (10.14%) Fire and Rescue
6 19 (8.76%) Marketing
7 15 (6.91%) Legal
8 12 (5.53%) Automotive
9 10 (4.61%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (4.15%) Banking
10 9 (4.15%) Investment Banking
10 9 (4.15%) Public Sector
11 7 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (3.23%) Retail
12 5 (2.30%) Aviation
12 5 (2.30%) Electronics
12 5 (2.30%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 43 (19.82%) Test Engineer
2 34 (15.67%) Analyst
3 33 (15.21%) QA Engineer
4 29 (13.36%) Developer
5 25 (11.52%) Tester
6 24 (11.06%) Test Analyst
7 22 (10.14%) Software Tester
8 21 (9.68%) Lead
9 14 (6.45%) Test Leader
10 12 (5.53%) QA Leader
11 11 (5.07%) Applications Developer
11 11 (5.07%) Software Developer
12 10 (4.61%) Java Engineer
13 9 (4.15%) Java Software Engineer
13 9 (4.15%) QA Software Engineer
13 9 (4.15%) Software Engineer
13 9 (4.15%) Test Automation Engineer
14 8 (3.69%) Software Test Engineer
15 7 (3.23%) Business Analyst
16 6 (2.76%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.68%) .NET
2 12 (5.53%) XML
3 10 (4.61%) .NET Core
3 10 (4.61%) JSON
3 10 (4.61%) Spring
4 9 (4.15%) CSS
4 9 (4.15%) Ext JS
4 9 (4.15%) HTML
4 9 (4.15%) React
4 9 (4.15%) REST
4 9 (4.15%) Spring Boot
5 8 (3.69%) Playwright
6 6 (2.76%) SOAP
7 5 (2.30%) CSS3
7 5 (2.30%) Gherkin
7 5 (2.30%) HTML5
7 5 (2.30%) Laravel
7 5 (2.30%) Sass
7 5 (2.30%) Tailwind CSS
7 5 (2.30%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.91%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.53%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.15%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.15%) Market Risk
3 9 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.69%) Algorithms
4 8 (3.69%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.23%) Credit Derivative
5 7 (3.23%) Derivative
5 7 (3.23%) Fixed Income
5 7 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (3.23%) Hedge funds
5 7 (3.23%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 7 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.23%) Reference Data
6 6 (2.76%) Smartphone
7 4 (1.84%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.38%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.38%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.76%) Windows
2 17 (7.83%) Linux
3 8 (3.69%) Mac OS
4 6 (2.76%) Unix
5 3 (1.38%) Android
6 2 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.92%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.46%) CentOS
7 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (75.12%) Test Automation
2 135 (62.21%) Agile
3 75 (34.56%) DevOps
4 65 (29.95%) Software Testing
5 54 (24.88%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (23.96%) User Experience
7 46 (21.20%) Test Scripting
8 44 (20.28%) SDLC
9 41 (18.89%) Regression Testing
10 34 (15.67%) Scrum
11 31 (14.29%) Code Quality
12 30 (13.82%) Continuous Integration
12 30 (13.82%) Test Strategy
13 27 (12.44%) CI/CD
14 26 (11.98%) API Testing
15 25 (11.52%) BDD
16 24 (11.06%) Computer Science
17 22 (10.14%) Microservices
18 21 (9.68%) Risk Management
19 20 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 70 (32.26%) SQL
2 55 (25.35%) Java
3 45 (20.74%) JavaScript
4 36 (16.59%) C#
5 28 (12.90%) Python
6 5 (2.30%) PHP
6 5 (2.30%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.38%) C
7 3 (1.38%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.92%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.46%) Bash
Qualifications
1 41 (18.89%) Degree
2 38 (17.51%) ISTQB
3 19 (8.76%) ISEB
4 17 (7.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.69%) Security Cleared
6 6 (2.76%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.30%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (1.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (1.38%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.38%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.92%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.92%) HND
11 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (52.07%) QA
2 2 (0.92%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.92%) ISO 14001
2 2 (0.92%) ISO 9001
2 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.84%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.92%) Firmware
3 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.30%) Grafana
1 5 (2.30%) Kibana
2 1 (0.46%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 44 (20.28%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.15%) TOWER Software
3 7 (3.23%) Oracle
4 4 (1.84%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.92%) SAP
6 1 (0.46%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.46%) BT
6 1 (0.46%) Databricks
6 1 (0.46%) HP
6 1 (0.46%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.46%) VMware