Software Test Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Software Test Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Software Test Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £500 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 99 117 -
Rank change year-on-year +18 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Software Test Engineer 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.13% 0.052% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.054% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% - -
North West median daily rate £500 £325 -
% change year-on-year +53.85% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,457 1,844 2,489
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.67% 96.75% 97.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,016 1,378 1,965
10th Percentile £313 £313 £213
25th Percentile £394 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £575
90th Percentile £691 £663 £650
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +9.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 57 62
10th Percentile £12.02 £14.15 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £11.82
Median hourly rate £24.15 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.01% +100.00% +9.38%
75th Percentile £60.94 £47.50 £22.90
90th Percentile £73.75 £67.60 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
% change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +12.83%

Software Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Test Engineer in Manchester

Software Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Software Test Engineer in Manchester

Software Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Software 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 Manchester region featuring Software Test Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership

Software Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA