Manual Testing Contracts in the City of London

Manual Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 136 185
Rank change year-on-year +19 +49 -21
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 10 14 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.47% 0.50% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.56% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 8
10th Percentile - £320 £298
25th Percentile £413 £344 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +17.65% -0.47%
75th Percentile £675 £641 £669
90th Percentile - £663 £766
Central London median daily rate £488 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.40% +11.11% +5.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,941 2,497 4,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.43% 89.92% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,193 1,754 2,734
10th Percentile £375 £363 £363
25th Percentile £470 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £690 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 51
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.00 £21.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.67% -35.15% +49.63%
75th Percentile £112.00 £52.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £137.50 £71.25 £78.75
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.75 £43.24
% change year-on-year +6.87% -24.26% +26.25%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the City of London

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in the City of London

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in the City of London

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in the City of London

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (10.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (10.00%) Firebase
1 1 (10.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Postman
1 3 (30.00%) SpecFlow
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) Appium
3 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) JMeter
General
1 3 (30.00%) Back Office
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Military
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Test Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Manual Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) QA Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) API Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (30.00%) BDD
4 3 (30.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) SDET
4 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
4 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
4 3 (30.00%) Web Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Functional Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Test Management
6 1 (10.00%) Cost Reduction
6 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk