Software Tester Contracts in Liverpool

Software Tester
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Software Tester daily rate in Liverpool is £275, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 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
18 Jul 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Software Tester 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Liverpool 0.76% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £263 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - -
75th Percentile £288 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Merseyside median daily rate £275 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 124 168 225
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.94% 95.45% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 87 157
10th Percentile £150 £143 £270
25th Percentile £275 £191 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £350 £463
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% +2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £494 £530
90th Percentile £682 £600 £600
Merseyside median daily rate £428 £375 £475
% change year-on-year +13.96% -21.03% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 28 9
10th Percentile - £15.42 £10.09
25th Percentile £12.21 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.37 £18.09 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% +3.36% +18.64%
75th Percentile £17.44 £26.69 £19.50
90th Percentile £19.74 £36.08 £31.84
Merseyside median hourly rate £17.44 £19.78 £17.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% +13.03% +7.69%

Software Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Tester in Liverpool

Software Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Daily rate trend for Software Tester in Liverpool

Software Tester Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool

For the 6 months to 18 July 2025, Software 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 Liverpool region featuring Software Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) EPiServer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) Optimizely
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving

Software Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) EPiServer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) Optimizely
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
4 Software Tester jobs in the North West