Test Scripting Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside 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 37 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.81% - 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% - 1.28%
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
North West median daily rate £400 £400 £500
% change year-on-year - -20.00% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 225 171 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 91.46% 72.77% 87.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 83 79
10th Percentile £129 £149 £219
25th Percentile £151 £188 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year -34.52% -1.18% -10.53%
75th Percentile £500 £507 £563
90th Percentile £638 £634 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 14
10th Percentile £12.21 £13.28 £13.77
25th Percentile £15.18 £15.22 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.67 £20.19 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% +7.68% +6.78%
75th Percentile £49.50 £23.53 £26.71
90th Percentile £51.02 £26.02 £43.70
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Test Scripting job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Test Scripting
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 Test Scripting within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 13 December 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 - 2 £288 -
Test Scripting
North West

Test Scripting
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 (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