Exploratory Testing Jobs in Manchester

Exploratory Testing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 165 258
Rank change year-on-year -1 +93 -
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Testing 10 2 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.28% 0.076% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.080% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile - £42,550 £40,625
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.58% +1.11% -
75th Percentile £45,313 £48,625 £47,500
90th Percentile £57,125 £48,850 £53,125
North West median annual salary £37,500 £45,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.58% -13.33% +101.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Exploratory 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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,116 2,512 5,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 85.75% 95.12% 96.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,415 1,840 3,508
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £32,331
25th Percentile £41,125 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,556 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% +8.28% +3.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,900 £84,777 £86,250
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Exploratory Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in Manchester

Exploratory Testing
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in Manchester.

Salary trend for Exploratory Testing in Manchester

Exploratory Testing
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Testing in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Exploratory Testing in Manchester

Exploratory Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Automotive
3 1 (10.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Software Tester
1 9 (90.00%) Tester
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Project Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Software Testing
2 7 (70.00%) API Testing
3 6 (60.00%) BDD
3 6 (60.00%) Context-Driven Testing
3 6 (60.00%) Kanban
3 6 (60.00%) Regression Testing
3 6 (60.00%) SDLC
3 6 (60.00%) Workload Management
4 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (30.00%) Defect Tracking
5 3 (30.00%) Manual Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Test Planning
5 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
5 3 (30.00%) Validation
6 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) LLM
6 1 (10.00%) Performance Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Prototyping
6 1 (10.00%) Smoke Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C#
1 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) ISTQB
1 6 (60.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (90.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) OpenAI