System Testing Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

System Testing
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring System Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing System Testing 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 1.35% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £263 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - -
75th Percentile £288 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £675 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +50.00% -14.29% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38.77 - -
Median hourly rate £41.86 - -
75th Percentile £44.94 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £61.43 - £21.36

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

System Testing 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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 197 158 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 88.34% 70.54% 86.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 72 101
10th Percentile £129 £153 £220
25th Percentile £160 £206 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £423 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% -6.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £540
90th Percentile £650 £600 £588
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 15
10th Percentile £12.21 £16.12 £13.98
25th Percentile £12.95 £19.27 £16.25
Median hourly rate £15.18 £22.44 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% +18.09% +8.20%
75th Percentile £44.94 £26.65 £28.72
90th Percentile £51.02 £37.20 £50.00
North West median hourly rate £29.27 £40.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year -27.12% +14.75% +44.09%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing System Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

System Testing job vacancy trend in Merseyside

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing System Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing System Testing

System Testing
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 System Testing within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 5 November 2025. 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 - 1 £275 - 1
System Testing
North West

System Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) EPiServer
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) iTrent
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Local Government
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Software Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 2 (66.67%) Workday
3 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (33.33%) Optimizely