Test Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Test Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Test Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 94 132
Rank change year-on-year +30 +38 -55
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 27 18 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.86% 0.99% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% 1.03% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 7
10th Percentile £368 £313 £305
25th Percentile £409 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £420
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +13.10% -1.18%
75th Percentile £481 £625 £513
90th Percentile £490 - £560
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £59.13 - -
25th Percentile £59.69 - -
Median hourly rate £61.25 - -
75th Percentile £62.19 - -
90th Percentile £62.38 - -
North West median hourly rate £42.50 - £41.62
% change year-on-year - - -6.87%

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 1,389 1,754 2,525
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.73% 96.32% 97.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 964 1,301 1,968
10th Percentile £313 £313 £228
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +12.94%
75th Percentile £585 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £660
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 45 68
10th Percentile £12.05 £15.44 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £18.50 £13.83
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +93.83% +11.26%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £32.88 £24.10
% change year-on-year -17.88% +36.42% +34.26%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Manchester

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in Manchester

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in Manchester

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in Manchester

Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Salford - 2 £400 -
Test Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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 Manchester region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (74.07%) Test Automation
2 11 (40.74%) Agile
3 10 (37.04%) Java
3 10 (37.04%) Accessibility
4 8 (29.63%) AWS
4 8 (29.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (25.93%) Jenkins
5 7 (25.93%) C#
6 6 (22.22%) Selenium
6 6 (22.22%) Load Testing
6 6 (22.22%) Security Testing
6 6 (22.22%) Cucumber
6 6 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (22.22%) API Testing
6 6 (22.22%) Exploratory Testing
7 5 (18.52%) Customer Experience
7 5 (18.52%) Manual Testing
7 5 (18.52%) DevOps
7 5 (18.52%) Non-Functional Testing
7 5 (18.52%) Software Testing
8 4 (14.81%) E-Commerce
8 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (14.81%) Microservices
8 4 (14.81%) RESTful
8 4 (14.81%) Playwright
8 4 (14.81%) Analytical Thinking
8 4 (14.81%) Active Listening
8 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
9 3 (11.11%) Gatling

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 8 (29.63%) AWS
2 2 (7.41%) Azure
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.70%) BrowserStack
3 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Serverless
3 1 (3.70%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Jenkins
2 6 (22.22%) Cucumber
2 6 (22.22%) Selenium
3 3 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 3 (11.11%) Gatling
3 3 (11.11%) JMeter
3 3 (11.11%) Postman
3 3 (11.11%) TestCafe
4 2 (7.41%) Git
4 2 (7.41%) JIRA
4 2 (7.41%) SpecFlow
4 2 (7.41%) WebDriver
5 1 (3.70%) GitLab
5 1 (3.70%) GoCD
5 1 (3.70%) NeoLoad
5 1 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (3.70%) Pa11y
5 1 (3.70%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) Playwright
1 4 (14.81%) RESTful
2 2 (7.41%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (7.41%) Kafka
2 2 (7.41%) React
2 2 (7.41%) Web Services
3 1 (3.70%) .NET
3 1 (3.70%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.70%) CSS
3 1 (3.70%) Node.js
3 1 (3.70%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Mac OS X
1 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) Test Automation
2 11 (40.74%) Agile
3 8 (29.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (22.22%) API Testing
4 6 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (22.22%) Exploratory Testing
4 6 (22.22%) Load Testing
4 6 (22.22%) Security Testing
5 5 (18.52%) Customer Experience
5 5 (18.52%) DevOps
5 5 (18.52%) Manual Testing
5 5 (18.52%) Non-Functional Testing
5 5 (18.52%) Software Testing
6 4 (14.81%) Active Listening
6 4 (14.81%) Analytical Thinking
6 4 (14.81%) E-Commerce
6 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (14.81%) Microservices
7 3 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (11.11%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Java
2 7 (25.93%) C#
3 2 (7.41%) Groovy
3 2 (7.41%) Scala
3 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) PHP
4 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.70%) Python
4 1 (3.70%) SQL
4 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (37.04%) Accessibility
2 3 (11.11%) QA
3 2 (7.41%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kibana
2 2 (7.41%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (3.70%) Salesforce