Manual Testing Contracts in London

Manual Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 338 387 477
Rank change year-on-year +49 +90 -52
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 62 95 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.35% 0.38% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.42% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 74 78
10th Percentile £358 £306 £304
25th Percentile £410 £441 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £597
90th Percentile £650 £738 £700
England median daily rate £450 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £23.44
90th Percentile - - £43.13
England median hourly rate £60.00 £53.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +11.63% +19.44% -1.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in London

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in London

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in London

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in London

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +43 15 £450 -28.00% 1
East London - 3 £340 - 1
South London +7 1 £475 +35.71% 1
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (8.06%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Endur
1 1 (1.61%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (1.61%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.81%) Azure
2 12 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.45%) AWS
3 4 (6.45%) GCP
4 2 (3.23%) BlazeMeter
4 2 (3.23%) BrowserStack
4 2 (3.23%) Firebase
4 2 (3.23%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.61%) Boomi
5 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.61%) GitHub
5 1 (1.61%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.61%) SaaS
5 1 (1.61%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) VLAN
1 4 (6.45%) Wireless
2 3 (4.84%) 5G
3 1 (1.61%) FTP
3 1 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.84%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.61%) Big Data
2 1 (1.61%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.61%) MySQL
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (27.42%) Selenium
2 14 (22.58%) JIRA
3 10 (16.13%) Postman
3 10 (16.13%) Visual Studio
4 9 (14.52%) Jenkins
4 9 (14.52%) SpecFlow
5 8 (12.90%) Appium
6 7 (11.29%) Git
7 6 (9.68%) WebDriver
8 5 (8.06%) Cypress.io
9 4 (6.45%) LoadRunner
9 4 (6.45%) Rational Performance Tester
10 3 (4.84%) GitLab
10 3 (4.84%) JMeter
10 3 (4.84%) NUnit
11 2 (3.23%) Bitbucket
11 2 (3.23%) Cucumber
11 2 (3.23%) Moq
12 1 (1.61%) Gerrit
12 1 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 14 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.74%) Finance
3 10 (16.13%) Banking
4 9 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (14.52%) Public Sector
5 8 (12.90%) Back Office
6 5 (8.06%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.23%) Electronics
7 2 (3.23%) Legal
7 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.23%) Marketing
7 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.61%) Front Office
8 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.61%) Local Government
8 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (32.26%) Analyst
2 19 (30.65%) Test Analyst
3 16 (25.81%) Tester
4 11 (17.74%) Manual Tester
4 11 (17.74%) Senior
5 10 (16.13%) Senior Analyst
5 10 (16.13%) Senior Test Analyst
6 9 (14.52%) Test Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) Lead
8 4 (6.45%) QA Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Automation Test Analyst
9 3 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) QA Leader
9 3 (4.84%) QA Tester
9 3 (4.84%) Test Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.23%) C# Developer
10 2 (3.23%) Consultant
10 2 (3.23%) Developer
10 2 (3.23%) Lead Test Engineer
10 2 (3.23%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.52%) .NET
2 7 (11.29%) ADO
3 4 (6.45%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.84%) .NET Framework
4 3 (4.84%) XML
5 2 (3.23%) CSS
5 2 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.23%) Entity Framework
5 2 (3.23%) Gherkin
5 2 (3.23%) GraphQL
5 2 (3.23%) HTML
5 2 (3.23%) Middleware
5 2 (3.23%) Playwright
5 2 (3.23%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (1.61%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.61%) ebXML
6 1 (1.61%) JSON
6 1 (1.61%) Kafka
6 1 (1.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.45%) Derivative
2 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.23%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.23%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.61%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.61%) PDA
4 1 (1.61%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.61%) Replication
4 1 (1.61%) Robotics
4 1 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.61%) Thin Client
4 1 (1.61%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.45%) Android
1 4 (6.45%) Linux
2 3 (4.84%) Windows
3 2 (3.23%) Unix
4 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (67.74%) Test Automation
2 34 (54.84%) Agile
3 20 (32.26%) Software Testing
4 19 (30.65%) DevOps
5 17 (27.42%) Acceptance Criteria
6 16 (25.81%) Scenario Testing
6 16 (25.81%) Scrum
7 15 (24.19%) Non-Functional Testing
7 15 (24.19%) Performance Testing
7 15 (24.19%) User Acceptance Testing
8 14 (22.58%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (22.58%) Test Strategy
9 12 (19.35%) End-to-End Testing
10 10 (16.13%) BDD
10 10 (16.13%) CI/CD
11 9 (14.52%) Test Planning
12 8 (12.90%) Functional Testing
13 7 (11.29%) API Testing
13 7 (11.29%) Epics
13 7 (11.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.81%) C#
2 10 (16.13%) Java
2 10 (16.13%) Python
3 9 (14.52%) SQL
4 8 (12.90%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.45%) Kotlin
5 4 (6.45%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.23%) Bash
6 2 (3.23%) Perl
6 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.23%) R
7 1 (1.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (8.06%) Degree
2 3 (4.84%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.23%) ISEB
3 2 (3.23%) ISTQB
3 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.61%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.58%) QA
2 5 (8.06%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.45%) Iperf
2 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.61%) Ansible
3 1 (1.61%) Grafana
3 1 (1.61%) Graylog
3 1 (1.61%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.61%) HP Fortify
3 1 (1.61%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.61%) Nagios
3 1 (1.61%) Nessus
3 1 (1.61%) Opsgenie
3 1 (1.61%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.61%) Puppet
3 1 (1.61%) Terraform
3 1 (1.61%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.06%) HP
3 4 (6.45%) IBM
4 2 (3.23%) Aderant
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle
4 2 (3.23%) SAP
4 2 (3.23%) Splunk
5 1 (1.61%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.61%) Dell
5 1 (1.61%) NEC
5 1 (1.61%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.61%) Perfecto Mobile
5 1 (1.61%) Veracode