QA Manual

QA Manual finds release risk early and improves how the team prevents regressions.

AI-assisted summary of published DOU and Djinni analytics

Salary from $982 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $1,863 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 683 Last 3 months
Applications per job 85.71 JobNote category match
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Published signal

Manual QA
$2,000 Manual QA median
$1,750 Middle Manual QA
$800 Junior Manual QA
$2,250 all-QA median

Hiring Ask for risk-based test choices, defect prevention, and ownership beyond executing cases.

Candidate Show how testing changed release quality or cycle time.

Data Net monthly DOU survey medians; title and experience still change the benchmark. The overall median combines QA types; junior figure is Manual QA.

Independent salary benchmark

DOU salary survey

Source data
June 2026 · 1197 respondents
Exact match
Lower quartile$1300
Median$2000
Upper quartile$2800
Year over year +11.1%

Salary range history

Lower quartile Median Upper quartile

Manual QA specialization · monthly net base salary in USD; bonuses excluded; all locations in the published CSV.

Derived from the shortened public salary-survey data published by DOU. Jobnote and DOU vacancy salaries are separate datasets.

Most wanted skills

Counts of active jobs now and salaries.

Manual QA 136 $1389–$2796 API Testing 75 $1387–$2550 Test Case Design 60 $966–$1942 Jira 57 $1474–$2540 SQL 55 $2555–$3940 Postman 48 $1116–$1964 Reporting 44 $1240–$2613 Test Documentation 37 $897–$1802 Regression Testing 33 $1225–$2107 API 32 $2560–$3928 Mobile App Testing 30 $974–$2079 Web Testing 26 $962–$1880 Analytics 24 $1862–$3251 Software Development Life Cycle 24 $1567–$2830 Confluence 22 $1731–$2808 Test Design 18 $1240–$2400 Scrum 17 $2039–$3631 Test Planning 17 $962–$2800 Functional Testing 16 $1181–$2091 QA Automation 16 $2901–$3801

Where to hire

Sources

  1. QA salaries — summer 2026 Published signal ·
  2. QA salaries — winter 2026 Published signal ·