Manual Testing Jobs

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 626 507 428
Rank change year-on-year -119 -79 +66
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 296 515 1,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.54% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.57% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 255 334 687
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,050 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,365 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,041
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.01% +0.09%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,600 £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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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% +9.38%

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 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Manual Testing in the UK

Manual Testing
Top 16 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 1 June 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 -127 236 £47,500 -5.00% 45
UK excluding London -130 221 £42,500 -5.56% 39
Work from Home -39 119 £38,500 -18.95% 16
London +37 60 £60,000 - 9
South East -47 49 £47,500 +5.56% 11
South West -19 45 £36,984 -22.14% 9
Scotland -59 40 £38,500 -33.04% 3
Midlands -10 34 £47,500 +17.92% 5
North of England -42 29 £40,000 -11.11% 9
West Midlands -3 22 £63,749 +23.63% 3
East of England -28 19 £37,500 -6.25% 2
North West -35 18 £37,500 -25.00% 7
East Midlands -25 12 £36,500 -8.75% 2
Yorkshire +25 10 £43,250 +8.13%
Wales -2 5 £45,000 +2.27%
North East -16 1 - - 2

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 (2.03%) Confluence
2 3 (1.01%) CMS
3 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 8 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.68%) Simulink
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
1 5 (1.69%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.34%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 55 (18.58%) Azure
2 27 (9.12%) SaaS
3 25 (8.45%) AWS
4 24 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (7.77%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (7.43%) Power Platform
6 22 (7.43%) PowerApps
7 11 (3.72%) Power Automate
8 9 (3.04%) BlazeMeter
8 9 (3.04%) BrowserStack
9 8 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.35%) GitHub
11 3 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.68%) Azure Functions
12 2 (0.68%) npm
12 2 (0.68%) Serverless
12 2 (0.68%) Yarn
13 1 (0.34%) Figma
13 1 (0.34%) GCP
13 1 (0.34%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.69%) SSH
2 2 (0.68%) Broadband
3 1 (0.34%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.46%) SQL Server
2 16 (5.41%) Relational Database
3 11 (3.72%) Power BI
4 6 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.69%) MariaDB
5 5 (1.69%) Metadata
5 5 (1.69%) MySQL
5 5 (1.69%) SAP BW
5 5 (1.69%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.34%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 64 (21.62%) Selenium
2 58 (19.59%) JIRA
3 37 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 27 (9.12%) Git
5 22 (7.43%) Cucumber
6 21 (7.09%) Jenkins
6 21 (7.09%) WebDriver
7 19 (6.42%) Postman
8 18 (6.08%) Visual Studio
9 17 (5.74%) JMeter
10 16 (5.41%) NUnit
11 12 (4.05%) SpecFlow
11 12 (4.05%) TestRail
12 11 (3.72%) Appium
12 11 (3.72%) Team Foundation Server
13 10 (3.38%) SoapUI
14 9 (3.04%) Gradle
14 9 (3.04%) Maven
15 8 (2.70%) UI Automator
16 4 (1.35%) GitLab
General
1 98 (33.11%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.53%) Finance
3 40 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (12.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (8.11%) Law
6 22 (7.43%) Fire and Rescue
6 22 (7.43%) Marketing
7 16 (5.41%) Legal
7 16 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (5.07%) Banking
9 12 (4.05%) Automotive
9 12 (4.05%) Public Sector
10 11 (3.72%) Investment Banking
10 11 (3.72%) Retail
11 7 (2.36%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.69%) Aviation
12 5 (1.69%) Electronics
13 2 (0.68%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (17.23%) Test Engineer
2 47 (15.88%) Analyst
3 45 (15.20%) QA Engineer
4 35 (11.82%) Lead
4 35 (11.82%) Tester
5 32 (10.81%) Developer
6 26 (8.78%) Test Analyst
7 24 (8.11%) Software Tester
8 23 (7.77%) QA Leader
9 17 (5.74%) Senior
9 17 (5.74%) Test Leader
10 15 (5.07%) QA Analyst
11 12 (4.05%) Test Manager
12 11 (3.72%) Applications Developer
12 11 (3.72%) Software Developer
13 10 (3.38%) Java Engineer
13 10 (3.38%) Software Test Engineer
14 9 (3.04%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (3.04%) Software Engineer
14 9 (3.04%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (10.81%) .NET
2 21 (7.09%) XML
3 17 (5.74%) Playwright
4 15 (5.07%) HTML
5 14 (4.73%) REST
6 13 (4.39%) Spring
7 12 (4.05%) JSON
8 11 (3.72%) .NET Core
8 11 (3.72%) React
8 11 (3.72%) Spring Boot
9 9 (3.04%) CSS
9 9 (3.04%) Ext JS
10 7 (2.36%) Gherkin
10 7 (2.36%) SOAP
11 6 (2.03%) Laravel
12 5 (1.69%) CSS3
12 5 (1.69%) Itk
12 5 (1.69%) Sass
12 5 (1.69%) Tailwind CSS
12 5 (1.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.11%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (4.39%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.05%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.04%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.04%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.04%) Market Risk
6 7 (2.36%) Credit Derivative
6 7 (2.36%) Derivative
6 7 (2.36%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (2.36%) Hedge funds
6 7 (2.36%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 7 (2.36%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.36%) Reference Data
7 6 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.03%) Smartphone
8 5 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.11%) Windows
2 23 (7.77%) Linux
3 8 (2.70%) Mac OS
3 8 (2.70%) Unix
4 4 (1.35%) Android
5 3 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.68%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.68%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.34%) CentOS
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (76.01%) Test Automation
2 168 (56.76%) Agile
3 94 (31.76%) Software Testing
4 91 (30.74%) DevOps
5 67 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (20.27%) Test Scripting
7 55 (18.58%) User Experience
8 54 (18.24%) Regression Testing
9 53 (17.91%) SDLC
10 49 (16.55%) Test Strategy
11 46 (15.54%) Scrum
12 42 (14.19%) CI/CD
13 41 (13.85%) Continuous Integration
14 39 (13.18%) Code Quality
15 37 (12.50%) API Testing
16 36 (12.16%) Computer Science
17 31 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
18 30 (10.14%) BDD
18 30 (10.14%) Microservices
19 25 (8.45%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 76 (25.68%) SQL
2 70 (23.65%) Java
3 58 (19.59%) C#
4 53 (17.91%) JavaScript
5 32 (10.81%) Python
6 9 (3.04%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.70%) C
7 8 (2.70%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.03%) C++
8 6 (2.03%) PHP
9 5 (1.69%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.68%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.34%) Bash
11 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.34%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (19.26%) Degree
2 50 (16.89%) ISTQB
3 28 (9.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (7.77%) ISEB
5 9 (3.04%) Master's Degree
5 9 (3.04%) Security Cleared
6 7 (2.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 6 (2.03%) Numerate Degree
8 5 (1.69%) MCAD
8 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.01%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.01%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.68%) HND
11 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (55.74%) QA
2 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.68%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.68%) ISO 14001
2 2 (0.68%) ISO 9001
2 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.68%) SLA
3 1 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (1.01%) Firmware
3 1 (0.34%) Docker
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.69%) Grafana
1 5 (1.69%) Kibana
1 5 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.01%) Ansible
2 3 (1.01%) Terraform
3 1 (0.34%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 48 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.04%) Oracle
2 9 (3.04%) TOWER Software
3 7 (2.36%) SAP
4 5 (1.69%) ServiceNow
4 5 (1.69%) UiPath
5 2 (0.68%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.68%) BT
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe
6 1 (0.34%) Databricks
6 1 (0.34%) HP
6 1 (0.34%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.34%) VMware