QA Engineer Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Quality Assurance Engineer
North West > Merseyside

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in Merseyside is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 1.25% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
North West median daily rate £300 £400 £500
% change year-on-year -25.00% -20.00% +73.91%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 289 157 187
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.31% 95.73% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 102 104
10th Percentile £144 £129 £162
25th Percentile £213 £182 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +6.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £547 £550 £513
90th Percentile £664 £673 £596
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 20
10th Percentile £17.74 - £16.37
25th Percentile £22.79 £12.21 £18.03
Median hourly rate £25.38 £17.44 £21.80
Median % change year-on-year +45.53% -19.98% +11.77%
75th Percentile - - £34.66
90th Percentile - £21.22 £41.40
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £27.00 £34.61
% change year-on-year +85.19% -21.98% +16.71%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

QA Engineer job vacancy trend in Merseyside

QA Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Merseyside.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Merseyside

QA Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 4 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool - 4 £300 - 3
QA Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 Merseyside region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Android
1 4 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 4 (100.00%) QA
1 4 (100.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) Appium
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Biometrics
2 1 (25.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Fintech
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) Push Notifications
2 1 (25.00%) TestFlight
2 1 (25.00%) XCUITest

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (25.00%) TestFlight
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Appium
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) XCUITest
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Android
1 4 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) Biometrics
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Fintech
2 1 (25.00%) Push Notifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune