Manual Testing Jobs in the Midlands

Manual Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Manual Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Manual Testing over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 273 281
Rank change year-on-year -35 +8 -34
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 35 33 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.25% 0.39% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.40% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 30 32 66
10th Percentile £35,750 £33,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £41,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.47% +10.67% -7.41%
75th Percentile £66,137 £54,508 £48,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £56,125 £54,375
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £45,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.89% +1.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,125 8,190 10,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 79.22% 96.43% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 7,655 4,352 6,986
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,656 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £78,001
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the Midlands

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Manual Testing in the Midlands

Manual Testing
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Manual Testing in the Midlands

Manual Testing
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
West Midlands +3 24 £63,749 +23.63% 4
East Midlands -39 11 £36,500 -8.75% 2
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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:

Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.71%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 12 (34.29%) Azure
2 6 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (17.14%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.86%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Git
1 6 (17.14%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (14.29%) JIRA
2 5 (14.29%) SoapUI
2 5 (14.29%) TestRail
3 2 (5.71%) Selenium
4 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.86%) Postman
General
1 17 (48.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Law
2 7 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.71%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Lead
1 7 (20.00%) Test Leader
2 6 (17.14%) Head of Development
2 6 (17.14%) Head of Software Development
2 6 (17.14%) QA Leader
3 5 (14.29%) QA Manager
3 5 (14.29%) QA Test Manager
3 5 (14.29%) Test Manager
4 4 (11.43%) Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Test Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Test Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Software Test Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Systems Test Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Test and Validation Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Validation Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Verification Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Associate Director
6 1 (2.86%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) REST
2 5 (14.29%) SOAP
3 2 (5.71%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.71%) Cyberattack
2 2 (5.71%) Cybercrime
2 2 (5.71%) Driving Licence
2 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (68.57%) Test Automation
2 21 (60.00%) Agile
3 18 (51.43%) DevOps
4 17 (48.57%) SDLC
5 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (17.14%) API Testing
6 6 (17.14%) Code Quality
6 6 (17.14%) Decision-Making
6 6 (17.14%) ITIL
6 6 (17.14%) Roadmaps
6 6 (17.14%) Service Desk Management
7 5 (14.29%) People Management
7 5 (14.29%) Regression Testing
7 5 (14.29%) Software Testing
7 5 (14.29%) Test Strategy
8 3 (8.57%) CI/CD
8 3 (8.57%) Penetration Testing
8 3 (8.57%) Test Scripting
9 2 (5.71%) Project Management
9 2 (5.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.57%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) C
2 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
2 2 (5.71%) MATLAB
3 1 (2.86%) C#
3 1 (2.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (31.43%) ISTQB
2 6 (17.14%) ISEB
3 4 (11.43%) Degree
4 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.71%) OSCP
4 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (65.71%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 13 (37.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) SAP
3 1 (2.86%) Databricks