Lead Test Engineer Contracts in London

Lead Test Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Test Engineer daily rate in London is £540 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 483 592
Rank change year-on-year +91 +109 -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Test Engineer 3 19 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.017% 0.071% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.074% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 18 2
10th Percentile £508 £534 £606
25th Percentile £520 £550 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £628 £638
Median % change year-on-year -13.94% -1.57% -
75th Percentile £560 £786 £666
90th Percentile £572 £823 £679
England median daily rate £540 £628 £583
% change year-on-year -13.94% +7.73% +1.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,599 25,655 37,115
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 95.29% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,582 27,076
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £677
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 289 450
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.05
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%

Lead Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Test Engineer in London

Lead Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Test Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Lead 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 London region featuring Lead Test Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) NUnit
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
3 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (33.33%) NEC
3 1 (33.33%) JMeter
3 1 (33.33%) Electronics
3 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum

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

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (33.33%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
1 1 (33.33%) NUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Housing Management
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) NEC
1 1 (33.33%) SAP