Test Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Test Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Test Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £255 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 151 176
Rank change year-on-year +37 +25 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 20 12 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.73% 0.35% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.37% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 13
10th Percentile £213 £344 £262
25th Percentile £230 £373 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 £400 £358
Median % change year-on-year -36.25% +11.89% +30.00%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £380
90th Percentile - £539 £381
England median daily rate £438 £525 £466
% change year-on-year -16.67% +12.60% +16.49%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,513 3,228 4,812
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.92% 94.58% 95.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 2,271 3,526
10th Percentile £213 £220 £209
25th Percentile £325 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% +3.26% +15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 127 170
10th Percentile £11.84 £12.30 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.17 £14.08
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +14.42% +15.08%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.25 £22.08
90th Percentile £52.78 £60.50 £34.55
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the Midlands

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in the Midlands

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in the Midlands

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in the Midlands

Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 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
East Midlands +36 19 £255 -32.00% 5
West Midlands +22 1 £525 +6.28% 16
Test Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 Midlands region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (60.00%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (60.00%) Conflict Management
2 12 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (60.00%) Degree
2 12 (60.00%) Time Management
2 12 (60.00%) NVQ Level 3
3 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 4 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 4 (20.00%) JMeter
5 3 (15.00%) Scrum
5 3 (15.00%) QA
5 3 (15.00%) Performance Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (15.00%) ISTQB
5 3 (15.00%) ISEB
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Data Design
6 2 (10.00%) User Experience
6 2 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Traceability Matrix
7 1 (5.00%) TestRail
7 1 (5.00%) Defect Management
7 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (5.00%) Postman
7 1 (5.00%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (5.00%) SQL Server

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

Applications
1 12 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (5.00%) Postman
2 1 (5.00%) TestRail
General
1 13 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Conflict Management
1 12 (60.00%) Time Management
2 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) Data Design
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Performance Testing
4 3 (15.00%) Scrum
4 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Traceability Matrix
5 2 (10.00%) User Experience
6 1 (5.00%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (5.00%) Defect Management
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Degree
1 12 (60.00%) NVQ Level 3
2 4 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (15.00%) ISEB
3 3 (15.00%) ISTQB
3 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft