QA Engineer Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Quality Assurance Engineer
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in Liverpool is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 1.69% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
Merseyside median daily rate £300 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Liverpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Liverpool. 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 Liverpool with a recognized job title 273 141 149
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 96.58% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 89 75
10th Percentile £144 £160 £155
25th Percentile £202 £363 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £475 £445
Median % change year-on-year -7.47% +6.74% -7.53%
75th Percentile £541 £575 £556
90th Percentile £638 £688 £600
Merseyside median daily rate £438 £433 £420
% change year-on-year +1.15% +3.10% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 16
10th Percentile £18.39 - £17.25
25th Percentile £20.87 £12.21 £18.03
Median hourly rate £24.72 £17.30 £21.80
Median % change year-on-year +42.89% -20.62% +14.71%
75th Percentile £25.38 £17.44 £26.69
90th Percentile £29.55 - £36.13
Merseyside median hourly rate £25.38 £17.44 £21.80
% change year-on-year +45.53% -19.98% +14.71%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'QA Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool.

QA Engineer job vacancy trend in Liverpool

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool

For the 6 months to 13 August 2026, QA Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Liverpool region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Android
1 5 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 5 (100.00%) QA
1 5 (100.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) Appium
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Biometrics
2 1 (20.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Fintech
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Push Notifications
2 1 (20.00%) TestFlight
2 1 (20.00%) XCUITest

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) TestFlight
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Appium
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
1 1 (20.00%) XCUITest
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Android
1 5 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) Biometrics
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Fintech
2 1 (20.00%) Push Notifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune