Tester Contracts in Knutsford

Tester
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Tester daily rate in Knutsford is £358, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 2.05% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £325 - -
25th Percentile £337 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
75th Percentile £436 - -
90th Percentile £483 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £436 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +9.00% -20.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Knutsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Knutsford. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Knutsford with a recognized job title 125 105 138
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.62% 97.22% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 97 111
10th Percentile £330 £356 £415
25th Percentile £358 £400 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% -11.09% +18.28%
75th Percentile £492 £582 £620
90th Percentile £537 £619 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £456 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +9.20%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Job postings that featured Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Job vacancy trend for Tester in Knutsford

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Tester in Knutsford.

Daily rate trend for Tester in Knutsford

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tester in Knutsford over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Tester in Knutsford

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Knutsford region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
1 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) System Testing
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Black-Box Testing
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) HP ALM
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium

Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 (33.33%) CICS
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
1 1 (33.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Black-Box Testing
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) System Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) COBOL
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JCL
1 1 (33.33%) REXX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) HP