Manual Testing Contracts in the West Midlands

Manual Testing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Manual Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manual Testing over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 125 171
Rank change year-on-year +23 +46 -44
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 9 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.44% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.21% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile - £382 £326
25th Percentile £250 £393 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £303 £420 £388
Median % change year-on-year -27.98% +8.39% +31.36%
75th Percentile £377 £440 £417
90th Percentile £423 £446 £431
England median daily rate £450 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Manual Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,667 1,939 3,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.64% 87.62% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 1,316 2,338
10th Percentile £265 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £586
90th Percentile £731 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Manual Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the West Midlands

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in the West Midlands

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in the West Midlands

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in the West Midlands

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +18 7 £306 -23.44% 2
Worcestershire - 1 £280 -
West Bromwich - 1 £325 -
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Analyst
1 7 (77.78%) Test Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Manual Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Test Lead
3 1 (11.11%) CRM Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Leader
3 1 (11.11%) QA Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Test Strategy
3 4 (44.44%) Software Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Defect Management
4 3 (33.33%) SDLC
4 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Agile
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Regression Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Test Planning
6 1 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
6 1 (11.11%) CRM
6 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 1 (11.11%) Functional Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (11.11%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) ISEB
1 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft