Software Testing Job Trends in Merseyside

Software Testing
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Software Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 44 52
Rank change year-on-year -14 +8 +41
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 1 17 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.17% 2.30% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 3.01% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1 14 0
10th Percentile - £36,875 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,688 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £70,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +40.00% -16.67% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

Software Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 554 565 440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 91.42% 76.35% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 261 350 318
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £31,175
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,188 £38,010
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +4.72%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,188 £60,950
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £75,750
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Software Testing job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Software Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Software Testing

Software Testing
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool -11 1 £55,000 +10.00% 2
Software Testing
North West

Software 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HubSpot