Manual Testing Jobs in the South West

Manual Testing
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 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 249 214 240
Rank change year-on-year -35 +26 +7
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 46 41 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.44% 0.64% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.67% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 42 35 51
10th Percentile £36,261 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,365 £36,875 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,984 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.14% +11.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £54,688 £59,156 £47,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £68,000 -
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
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,437 6,100 8,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 79.87% 94.60% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,959 3,496 4,999
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,241
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £53,519 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +7.04% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,675 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the South West

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Manual Testing in the South West

Manual Testing
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Manual Testing in the South West

Manual Testing
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the South West 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Devon +10 24 £36,984 -1.38% 3
Bristol -11 8 £85,000 +44.07%
Gloucestershire -19 7 £52,500 +5.00% 1
Dorset -29 5 £32,500 - 2
Wiltshire -12 2 £48,500 +7.78% 3
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (47.83%) Power Platform
2 22 (47.83%) PowerApps
3 11 (23.91%) Power Automate
4 3 (6.52%) Azure
5 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.17%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.91%) Power BI
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (26.09%) JIRA
1 12 (26.09%) Selenium
2 6 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.87%) Cypress.io
3 5 (10.87%) Git
4 3 (6.52%) WebDriver
5 2 (4.35%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.35%) Postman
6 1 (2.17%) Subversion
General
1 28 (60.87%) Social Skills
2 22 (47.83%) Fire and Rescue
3 4 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.35%) Banking
4 2 (4.35%) Finance
4 2 (4.35%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.35%) Law
5 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.17%) Aviation
5 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (47.83%) Developer
2 11 (23.91%) Applications Developer
2 11 (23.91%) Software Developer
3 9 (19.57%) Test Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) QA Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Lead
6 4 (8.70%) Automation Test Lead
6 4 (8.70%) Test Leader
7 3 (6.52%) Software Tester
7 3 (6.52%) Tester
8 2 (4.35%) QA Test Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Test Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) Analyst
9 1 (2.17%) Automation Analyst
9 1 (2.17%) Lead Test Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) Software Test Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) .NET
1 2 (4.35%) Gherkin
1 2 (4.35%) REST
1 2 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
2 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.17%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Windows
2 3 (6.52%) Linux
3 1 (2.17%) Android
3 1 (2.17%) CentOS
3 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (86.96%) Agile
2 30 (65.22%) DevOps
3 25 (54.35%) User Experience
4 19 (41.30%) Test Automation
5 11 (23.91%) Customer-Centricity
5 11 (23.91%) Data Architecture
5 11 (23.91%) Service Delivery
6 8 (17.39%) End-to-End Testing
7 7 (15.22%) Regression Testing
7 7 (15.22%) Software Testing
7 7 (15.22%) User Acceptance Testing
8 6 (13.04%) Test Scripting
9 5 (10.87%) Acceptance Criteria
9 5 (10.87%) Computer Science
9 5 (10.87%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (8.70%) Backtesting
10 4 (8.70%) CI/CD
10 4 (8.70%) Continuous Deployment
10 4 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (8.70%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 29 (63.04%) SQL
2 28 (60.87%) Java
3 4 (8.70%) C#
3 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.35%) Python
5 1 (2.17%) C++
5 1 (2.17%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Degree
1 7 (15.22%) ISTQB
2 4 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.52%) ISEB
4 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (34.78%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Firmware
2 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 25 (54.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.17%) BT
2 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.17%) VMware