Manual Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 603 510 438
Rank change year-on-year -93 -72 +64
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 298 549 1,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.55% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.58% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 261 360 673
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,725 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,365 £38,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.89% +4.60%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £86,000 £85,000 £74,686
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,075 94,861 153,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 95.59% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,840 55,938 82,447
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,714
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Manual Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the UK

Manual Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing.

Salary trend for Manual Testing in the UK

Manual Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Manual Testing in the UK

Manual Testing
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 17 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
England -89 238 £47,500 -5.00% 59
UK excluding London -124 221 £42,500 -5.56% 52
Work from Home -32 123 £38,500 -23.00% 34
London +26 62 £60,000 +4.35% 15
South East -50 46 £47,500 +5.56% 14
South West -12 45 £36,984 -22.14% 10
Scotland -52 40 £38,500 -38.40% 2
Midlands -2 36 £48,750 +21.69% 9
North of England -30 30 £41,000 -8.89% 15
West Midlands +24 21 £63,749 +22.52% 7
East of England -18 19 £37,500 -6.25%
North West -34 18 £37,500 -25.00% 9
East Midlands -14 15 £36,500 -8.75% 2
Yorkshire +32 11 £45,000 +12.50% 6
Wales +2 4 £45,000 +2.27% 2
Northern Ireland +23 1 - -
North East -8 1 - -

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (2.01%) Confluence
2 3 (1.01%) CMS
3 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.67%) Simulink
3 1 (0.34%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
1 5 (1.68%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 55 (18.46%) Azure
2 30 (10.07%) SaaS
3 25 (8.39%) AWS
4 23 (7.72%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (7.72%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (7.72%) Power Platform
5 22 (7.38%) PowerApps
6 11 (3.69%) Power Automate
7 9 (3.02%) BlazeMeter
8 8 (2.68%) BrowserStack
8 8 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.68%) GitHub
10 3 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.67%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.67%) npm
11 2 (0.67%) Serverless
11 2 (0.67%) Yarn
12 1 (0.34%) Figma
12 1 (0.34%) GCP
12 1 (0.34%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.68%) SSH
2 2 (0.67%) Broadband
3 1 (0.34%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.06%) SQL Server
2 16 (5.37%) Relational Database
3 12 (4.03%) Power BI
4 6 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.68%) MariaDB
5 5 (1.68%) Metadata
5 5 (1.68%) MySQL
5 5 (1.68%) SAP BW
5 5 (1.68%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.34%) Big Data
6 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.34%) GIS
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 61 (20.47%) Selenium
2 59 (19.80%) JIRA
3 36 (12.08%) Cypress.io
4 26 (8.72%) Cucumber
4 26 (8.72%) Git
5 21 (7.05%) WebDriver
6 20 (6.71%) Jenkins
7 17 (5.70%) Postman
7 17 (5.70%) Visual Studio
8 16 (5.37%) JMeter
9 15 (5.03%) NUnit
10 12 (4.03%) TestRail
11 11 (3.69%) Appium
11 11 (3.69%) SpecFlow
11 11 (3.69%) Team Foundation Server
12 10 (3.36%) Maven
13 9 (3.02%) Gradle
13 9 (3.02%) SoapUI
14 8 (2.68%) UI Automator
15 3 (1.01%) GitLab
General
1 97 (32.55%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.43%) Finance
3 41 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (12.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (8.39%) Law
6 22 (7.38%) Fire and Rescue
6 22 (7.38%) Marketing
7 16 (5.37%) Banking
7 16 (5.37%) Legal
8 15 (5.03%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (4.03%) Automotive
9 12 (4.03%) Investment Banking
9 12 (4.03%) Public Sector
10 11 (3.69%) Retail
11 8 (2.68%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.68%) Electronics
14 4 (1.34%) Aviation
15 2 (0.67%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (17.11%) QA Engineer
2 49 (16.44%) Test Engineer
3 48 (16.11%) Analyst
4 37 (12.42%) Tester
5 33 (11.07%) Lead
6 32 (10.74%) Developer
7 26 (8.72%) Test Analyst
8 24 (8.05%) Software Tester
9 23 (7.72%) QA Leader
10 18 (6.04%) Senior
11 15 (5.03%) QA Analyst
11 15 (5.03%) Test Leader
12 12 (4.03%) Test Manager
13 11 (3.69%) Applications Developer
13 11 (3.69%) Software Developer
14 10 (3.36%) Java Engineer
14 10 (3.36%) Software Engineer
14 10 (3.36%) Test Automation Engineer
15 9 (3.02%) Java Software Engineer
15 9 (3.02%) QA Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (10.40%) .NET
2 20 (6.71%) XML
3 15 (5.03%) HTML
3 15 (5.03%) Playwright
4 14 (4.70%) REST
4 14 (4.70%) Spring
5 12 (4.03%) .NET Core
5 12 (4.03%) JSON
6 11 (3.69%) React
6 11 (3.69%) Spring Boot
7 9 (3.02%) CSS
7 9 (3.02%) Ext JS
8 7 (2.35%) Gherkin
8 7 (2.35%) SOAP
9 6 (2.01%) Laravel
10 5 (1.68%) CSS3
10 5 (1.68%) HTML5
10 5 (1.68%) Itk
10 5 (1.68%) RESTful
10 5 (1.68%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.07%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (4.36%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.03%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.02%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.02%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.02%) Market Risk
6 8 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.35%) Credit Derivative
7 7 (2.35%) Derivative
7 7 (2.35%) Fixed Income
7 7 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.35%) Hedge funds
7 7 (2.35%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 7 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.35%) Reference Data
8 6 (2.01%) Smartphone
9 5 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.72%) Linux
2 22 (7.38%) Windows
3 8 (2.68%) Mac OS
3 8 (2.68%) Unix
4 4 (1.34%) Android
5 3 (1.01%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.01%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.67%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.34%) CentOS
7 1 (0.34%) Debian
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (75.84%) Test Automation
2 168 (56.38%) Agile
3 89 (29.87%) DevOps
4 87 (29.19%) Software Testing
5 68 (22.82%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (19.46%) Test Scripting
7 55 (18.46%) Regression Testing
7 55 (18.46%) User Experience
8 51 (17.11%) SDLC
9 48 (16.11%) Test Strategy
10 47 (15.77%) Scrum
11 42 (14.09%) API Testing
12 41 (13.76%) CI/CD
13 40 (13.42%) Continuous Integration
14 39 (13.09%) Code Quality
15 35 (11.74%) Computer Science
16 30 (10.07%) Microservices
17 29 (9.73%) BDD
17 29 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
18 24 (8.05%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 77 (25.84%) SQL
2 71 (23.83%) Java
3 57 (19.13%) C#
4 53 (17.79%) JavaScript
5 31 (10.40%) Python
6 12 (4.03%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.68%) C
7 8 (2.68%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.01%) PHP
9 5 (1.68%) C++
9 5 (1.68%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.67%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.34%) Bash
11 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.34%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 55 (18.46%) Degree
2 47 (15.77%) ISTQB
3 27 (9.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (7.38%) ISEB
5 10 (3.36%) Security Cleared
6 9 (3.02%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (1.68%) MCAD
8 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.68%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.34%) SC Cleared
10 3 (1.01%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.01%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.67%) HND
12 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (56.04%) QA
2 3 (1.01%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.67%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.67%) ISO 14001
3 2 (0.67%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.67%) SLA
4 1 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (1.01%) Firmware
3 1 (0.34%) Docker
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.68%) Grafana
1 5 (1.68%) Kibana
1 5 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.01%) Ansible
2 3 (1.01%) Terraform
3 1 (0.34%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 47 (15.77%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.02%) Oracle
2 9 (3.02%) TOWER Software
3 7 (2.35%) SAP
4 5 (1.68%) ServiceNow
4 5 (1.68%) UiPath
5 2 (0.67%) BT
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe
6 1 (0.34%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.34%) Databricks
6 1 (0.34%) Hitachi
6 1 (0.34%) HP
6 1 (0.34%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.34%) VMware