Test Engineer Contracts in Cardiff

Test Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Test Engineer daily rate in Cardiff is £363 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
25 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 43 42
Rank change year-on-year +13 -1 -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 6 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 2.80% 0.29% 2.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.02% 0.30% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 10
10th Percentile £350 - £365
25th Percentile £352 - £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - £426
75th Percentile £397 - £563
90th Percentile £460 - £638
South Wales median daily rate £363 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -42.00% +13.64% +37.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 199 328 522
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.99% 96.47% 97.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 264 402
10th Percentile £199 £181 £232
25th Percentile £372 £346 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £537
90th Percentile £620 £625 £638
South Wales median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 5
10th Percentile £11.32 £12.71 £13.45
25th Percentile £11.75 £13.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £13.50 £16.45 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.91% -12.29% +14.42%
75th Percentile £18.00 £20.92 £23.75
90th Percentile £39.45 £24.25 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +25.03% -8.89% +10.61%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings that featured Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Cardiff

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in Cardiff

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in Cardiff over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in Cardiff

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Test Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cardiff region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Selenium
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
3 4 (66.67%) BDD
4 3 (50.00%) Azure
5 2 (33.33%) Java
5 2 (33.33%) SQL
5 2 (33.33%) Python
5 2 (33.33%) ETL
5 2 (33.33%) JMeter
5 2 (33.33%) Finance
5 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (33.33%) DevOps
6 1 (16.67%) GCP
6 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
6 1 (16.67%) GitHub
6 1 (16.67%) Analytics
6 1 (16.67%) Postman
6 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
6 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
6 1 (16.67%) C#
6 1 (16.67%) Scrum
6 1 (16.67%) JIRA
6 1 (16.67%) QA
6 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (16.67%) Project Management

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Selenium
2 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (33.33%) JMeter
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) BDD
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) ETL
4 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Kanban
5 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 Test Engineer jobs in South Wales