Test Scripting Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Liverpool requiring Test Scripting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 1.04% - 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% - 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £266 - £362
25th Percentile £272 - £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 - £419
75th Percentile £297 - £467
90th Percentile £299 - £491
Merseyside median daily rate £288 - £419

All Process and Methodology Skills
Liverpool

Test Scripting 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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 177 149 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 91.71% 74.87% 87.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 74 64
10th Percentile £134 £149 £215
25th Percentile £163 £175 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £413
Median % change year-on-year - -3.03% -13.16%
75th Percentile £500 £501 £563
90th Percentile £650 £632 £600
Merseyside median daily rate £275 £420 £425
% change year-on-year -34.52% -1.18% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 13
10th Percentile £12.21 £12.86 £13.56
25th Percentile - £15.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £15.18 £22.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.00% +15.79% +8.57%
75th Percentile £51.02 £23.53 £28.44
90th Percentile - £28.52 £45.80
Merseyside median hourly rate £18.67 £20.19 £18.75
% change year-on-year -7.53% +7.68% +6.78%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Scripting relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool.

Test Scripting job vacancy trend in Liverpool

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing Test Scripting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing Test Scripting

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend in Liverpool

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing Test Scripting.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing Test Scripting

Test Scripting
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) EPiServer
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Trello
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) HP UFT
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Zephyr
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Software Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (50.00%) Optimizely
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle