Test Engineer Contracts in England

Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Test Engineer daily rate in England is £427 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 387 415
Rank change year-on-year +94 +28 -33
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 264 296 403
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.71% 0.59% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.62% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 202 238
10th Percentile £295 £325 £322
25th Percentile £380 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £513 £473
Median % change year-on-year -16.59% +8.47% +14.55%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £549
90th Percentile £588 £738 £625
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +18.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 15 22
10th Percentile £26.88 £40.50 £31.25
25th Percentile £35.56 £50.00 £35.81
Median hourly rate £43.64 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.88% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £59.89 £69.38 £56.00
90th Percentile £62.15 £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £47.93
% change year-on-year -19.05% +9.55% +6.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in England

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in England

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in England

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in England

Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Engineer in England

Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London +56 75 £438 -27.08% 28
South East +44 58 £425 +6.25% 64
North of England +35 52 £425 -15.00% 20
North West +31 37 £450 -5.26% 11
South West +14 34 £559 +12.88% 33
Midlands +34 22 £255 -36.17% 23
East Midlands +33 21 £255 -32.00% 4
East of England +10 18 £420 -8.70% 38
Yorkshire +22 15 £411 -17.75% 8
West Midlands +27 1 £525 +6.28% 19
Test Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 England region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 127 (48.11%) Test Automation
2 86 (32.58%) Agile
3 69 (26.14%) Security Cleared
4 68 (25.76%) JIRA
5 60 (22.73%) Test Scripting
6 56 (21.21%) Python
7 54 (20.45%) Social Skills
8 53 (20.08%) Java
8 53 (20.08%) SC Cleared
9 51 (19.32%) Software Testing
10 45 (17.05%) SQL
11 44 (16.67%) Selenium
12 43 (16.29%) AWS
13 37 (14.02%) CI/CD
14 35 (13.26%) Performance Testing
15 34 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
16 33 (12.50%) Confluence
16 33 (12.50%) Regression Testing
17 30 (11.36%) Scrum
18 28 (10.61%) JMeter
18 28 (10.61%) Degree
19 27 (10.23%) QA
19 27 (10.23%) Windows
20 25 (9.47%) Integration Testing
20 25 (9.47%) Jenkins
20 25 (9.47%) DevOps
20 25 (9.47%) Accessibility
21 24 (9.09%) Cucumber
21 24 (9.09%) Microsoft
22 23 (8.71%) Test Strategy

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

Application Platforms
1 33 (12.50%) Confluence
2 15 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.79%) Apache
3 10 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.76%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) MTS
5 1 (0.38%) nginx
5 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (5.30%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.76%) Simulink
4 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.38%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.38%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 43 (16.29%) AWS
2 14 (5.30%) Azure
3 9 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (1.89%) GitHub
4 5 (1.89%) Serverless
5 4 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (1.52%) BrowserStack
6 3 (1.14%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.76%) GCP
7 2 (0.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (0.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (0.76%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.38%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.38%) SpeedCurve
8 1 (0.38%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.44%) DHCP
1 17 (6.44%) DNS
2 14 (5.30%) Wireless
3 11 (4.17%) BGP
3 11 (4.17%) MPLS
3 11 (4.17%) VPN
4 10 (3.79%) Ethernet VPN
4 10 (3.79%) Radio Access Network
5 9 (3.41%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.89%) 5G
7 4 (1.52%) HTTP
7 4 (1.52%) VLAN
8 3 (1.14%) 4G
8 3 (1.14%) SNMP
9 2 (0.76%) RS-232
9 2 (0.76%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.38%) Diameter Protocol
10 1 (0.38%) HbbTV
10 1 (0.38%) VoLTE
10 1 (0.38%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.06%) MongoDB
2 11 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 11 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.14%) Power BI
4 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.38%) Big Data
5 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.38%) HDInsight
5 1 (0.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 68 (25.76%) JIRA
2 44 (16.67%) Selenium
3 28 (10.61%) JMeter
4 25 (9.47%) Jenkins
5 24 (9.09%) Cucumber
6 18 (6.82%) Postman
7 16 (6.06%) Cypress.io
8 14 (5.30%) Git
8 14 (5.30%) TestRail
9 13 (4.92%) GitLab
10 12 (4.55%) Robot Framework
11 8 (3.03%) Gatling
12 7 (2.65%) JUnit
12 7 (2.65%) WebDriver
13 6 (2.27%) Bitbucket
13 6 (2.27%) LabVIEW
13 6 (2.27%) NUnit
13 6 (2.27%) Visual Studio
14 5 (1.89%) REST Assured
15 4 (1.52%) Appium
General
1 54 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 34 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (7.20%) Finance
3 19 (7.20%) Military
3 19 (7.20%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.44%) Telecoms
5 11 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.41%) Electronics
7 7 (2.65%) Aerospace
7 7 (2.65%) Marketing
8 6 (2.27%) Automotive
8 6 (2.27%) Banking
9 5 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.52%) Retail
11 2 (0.76%) Aviation
11 2 (0.76%) Law
12 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Games
12 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.30%) REST
2 11 (4.17%) SOAP
3 10 (3.79%) .NET
3 10 (3.79%) NETCONF
3 10 (3.79%) RESTCONF
3 10 (3.79%) YANG
4 9 (3.41%) Playwright
5 8 (3.03%) AngularJS
6 7 (2.65%) Node.js
7 6 (2.27%) Gherkin
7 6 (2.27%) RESTful
8 5 (1.89%) GraphQL
8 5 (1.89%) LDAP
9 4 (1.52%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (1.52%) CSS
9 4 (1.52%) Jest
9 4 (1.52%) Kafka
9 4 (1.52%) Web Services
10 3 (1.14%) HTML
11 2 (0.76%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.20%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (6.44%) PKI
3 6 (2.27%) Mobile App
4 5 (1.89%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.52%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.14%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.76%) Life Science
8 1 (0.38%) Digital TV
8 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.38%) GNSS
8 1 (0.38%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.38%) Machine to Machine
8 1 (0.38%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.38%) MPEG
8 1 (0.38%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.38%) STB
8 1 (0.38%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.23%) Windows
2 21 (7.95%) Linux
3 15 (5.68%) Windows Server
3 15 (5.68%) Windows Server 2012
4 12 (4.55%) Unix
5 4 (1.52%) Mac OS X
6 3 (1.14%) Android
7 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.38%) CentOS
7 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (48.11%) Test Automation
2 86 (32.58%) Agile
3 60 (22.73%) Test Scripting
4 51 (19.32%) Software Testing
5 37 (14.02%) CI/CD
6 35 (13.26%) Performance Testing
7 33 (12.50%) Regression Testing
8 30 (11.36%) Scrum
9 25 (9.47%) DevOps
9 25 (9.47%) Integration Testing
10 23 (8.71%) Security Testing
10 23 (8.71%) Test Strategy
11 22 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (8.33%) Non-Functional Testing
11 22 (8.33%) Scenario Testing
12 21 (7.95%) BDD
12 21 (7.95%) Manual Testing
12 21 (7.95%) Validation
13 18 (6.82%) API Testing
13 18 (6.82%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 56 (21.21%) Python
2 53 (20.08%) Java
3 45 (17.05%) SQL
4 22 (8.33%) C#
5 21 (7.95%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.68%) TypeScript
7 14 (5.30%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.03%) C
9 7 (2.65%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.27%) Bash
11 5 (1.89%) C++
12 4 (1.52%) Groovy
12 4 (1.52%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.52%) Scala
13 2 (0.76%) Ada
13 2 (0.76%) Ada 95
13 2 (0.76%) Perl
13 2 (0.76%) Ruby
14 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 69 (26.14%) Security Cleared
2 53 (20.08%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.61%) Degree
4 16 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (5.68%) ISTQB
5 15 (5.68%) MCSA
5 15 (5.68%) MCSE
5 15 (5.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 12 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.55%) NVQ Level 3
7 6 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.14%) ISEB
8 3 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.76%) HNC
9 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.23%) QA
2 25 (9.47%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.52%) WCAG
4 2 (0.76%) Def Stans
4 2 (0.76%) GAMP
4 2 (0.76%) GxP
4 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (7.95%) Docker
2 18 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.68%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.52%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.52%) vSphere
5 2 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.38%) Firmware
6 1 (0.38%) iptables
Systems Management
1 10 (3.79%) Grafana
2 8 (3.03%) Prometheus
3 7 (2.65%) Ansible
3 7 (2.65%) Terraform
4 4 (1.52%) Iperf
4 4 (1.52%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.14%) Kibana
6 2 (0.76%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.76%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 24 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.82%) VMware
3 7 (2.65%) SAP
4 4 (1.52%) Atlassian
4 4 (1.52%) Wind River
5 2 (0.76%) Google
5 2 (0.76%) HP
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle
5 2 (0.76%) PagerDuty
5 2 (0.76%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.76%) Siemens
5 2 (0.76%) Splunk
6 1 (0.38%) Adobe
6 1 (0.38%) Databricks
6 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.38%) Juniper
6 1 (0.38%) NEC
6 1 (0.38%) Qualtrics