Test Engineer Contracts in Leeds

Test Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Test Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £405 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 93 93
Rank change year-on-year +32 0 -33
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 5 3 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.63% 0.23% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.23% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile - - £431
25th Percentile £400 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% +5.26% +18.38%
75th Percentile £416 £525 £488
90th Percentile £418 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% +18.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 733 1,301 1,549
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 97.89% 97.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 949 1,131
10th Percentile £300 £350 £275
25th Percentile £413 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +7.24%
75th Percentile £588 £618 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.06% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 23
10th Percentile £11.30 £12.75 £15.45
25th Percentile £11.88 £17.24 £18.00
Median hourly rate £12.53 £54.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -76.80% +141.07% +3.04%
75th Percentile £15.25 £70.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £18.27 - £28.45
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.17 £32.50 £17.18
% change year-on-year -53.32% +89.23% -21.00%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Leeds

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in Leeds

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 Leeds region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) C#
3 3 (60.00%) Java
3 3 (60.00%) WebDriver
4 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) Kafka
4 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (40.00%) Git
4 2 (40.00%) Scala
4 2 (40.00%) Wind River
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Groovy
4 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) HTTP
4 2 (40.00%) Mac OS X
4 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (40.00%) JMeter
4 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 2 (40.00%) TDD
4 2 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (40.00%) Web Services
4 2 (40.00%) Unix
4 2 (40.00%) JIRA
4 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (40.00%) BDD
4 2 (40.00%) MongoDB

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

Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) WebDriver
3 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (40.00%) Gatling
3 2 (40.00%) Git
3 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) JMeter
4 1 (20.00%) JUnit
4 1 (20.00%) TestNG
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) pytest
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Open Source
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Groovy
2 2 (40.00%) Scala
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Wind River