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 $951 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $1,866 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 653 Last 3 months
Applications per job 89.21 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 166 $1364–$2802 API Testing 86 $1354–$2529 Test Case Design 76 $977–$1956 SQL 68 $2550–$3953 Jira 66 $1432–$2559 Postman 57 $1101–$1961 Reporting 56 $1242–$2608 Regression Testing 46 $1197–$2107 Test Documentation 42 $812–$1750 Web Testing 39 $914–$1815 Mobile App Testing 38 $976–$2104 API 33 $2499–$3902 Software Development Life Cycle 27 $1539–$2829 Analytics 25 $1839–$3236 Confluence 22 $1741–$2876 Test Planning 22 $1020–$2870 Scrum 20 $2006–$3619 Test Design 19 $1225–$2420 Web Application Testing 19 $1136–$1754

Where to hire

Sources

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