Exploratory Testing Contracts in Chester

Exploratory Testing
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 1.25% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £675 - £500

All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester

Exploratory 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 Chester.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66 48 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 82.50% 77.42% 82.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 16 44
10th Percentile £325 £450 £350
25th Percentile £442 £542 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £618 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +17.62% +23.53%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £591
90th Percentile £768 - £684
Cheshire median daily rate £438 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -8.47% -4.40% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 16
10th Percentile £12.63 £16.00 £17.38
25th Percentile £15.85 £25.50 £30.06
Median hourly rate £29.28 £35.00 £31.88
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +9.80% +46.36%
75th Percentile £45.85 £41.25 £35.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £47.50 £37.52
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.01 £35.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -37.11% +14.60% +45.43%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in Chester

Exploratory Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Exploratory Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Exploratory Testing

Exploratory Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) UiPath