Agile Testing Contract Job Trends in the North West

Agile Testing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Agile Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 111 144
Rank change year-on-year -18 +33 -
Contract jobs citing Agile Testing 1 11 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.046% 0.46% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.55% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £400 £650
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -38.46% -
75th Percentile - - £675
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £420 £400 £473
% change year-on-year +5.00% -15.34% -5.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Agile 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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,942 2,003 2,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.92% 83.42% 87.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,285 1,158 1,670
10th Percentile £299 £294 £270
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £679 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 109 163
10th Percentile £13.61 £16.45 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.39 £28.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% +21.43% +57.30%
75th Percentile £49.84 £58.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.06 £71.02 £66.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%

Agile Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Agile Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Testing in the North West

Agile Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Agile Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Agile Testing

Agile Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Testing within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Merseyside - 1 £300 -
Agile Testing
England

Agile Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Trello
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) HP UFT
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA