Senior Test Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Senior Test Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Test Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 213 -
Rank change year-on-year +49 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 21 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.45% 0.069% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.072% -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 0
10th Percentile £377 £458 -
25th Percentile £400 £459 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - -
75th Percentile £475 £503 -
90th Percentile £488 £513 -
England median daily rate £456 £550 £400
% change year-on-year -17.05% +37.50% +3.23%
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 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,370 5,536 6,958
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 95.30% 96.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,742 3,911 5,115
10th Percentile £263 £281 £200
25th Percentile £385 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £684 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 160 284
10th Percentile £11.01 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.76 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.00 £31.63 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -36.76% +70.11% +4.63%
75th Percentile £46.00 £50.72 £28.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.07 £51.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Engineer in the North of England

Senior Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Engineer in the North of England

Senior Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Test Engineer in the North of England

Senior Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Test Engineer in the North of England

Senior Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 5 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
North West +40 15 £450 -8.86% 3
Yorkshire +24 6 £413 -10.81% 1
Senior Test Engineer
England

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Senior 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 North of England region featuring Senior Test Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 12 (57.14%) Java
3 10 (47.62%) Agile
3 10 (47.62%) Accessibility
4 9 (42.86%) Selenium
5 8 (38.10%) JMeter
5 8 (38.10%) Jenkins
6 7 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (33.33%) Cucumber
6 7 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (28.57%) Manual Testing
7 6 (28.57%) AWS
8 5 (23.81%) BDD
8 5 (23.81%) Gatling
8 5 (23.81%) Load Testing
8 5 (23.81%) Security Testing
8 5 (23.81%) TDD
8 5 (23.81%) JIRA
8 5 (23.81%) Exploratory Testing
8 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (19.05%) Analytical Thinking
9 4 (19.05%) Active Listening
9 4 (19.05%) Customer Experience
9 4 (19.05%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (19.05%) HTTP
9 4 (19.05%) Mac OS X
9 4 (19.05%) Shell Script
9 4 (19.05%) Web Services
9 4 (19.05%) Unix
9 4 (19.05%) Groovy

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (4.76%) BrowserStack
2 1 (4.76%) GitHub
2 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.76%) Serverless
2 1 (4.76%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Selenium
2 8 (38.10%) Jenkins
2 8 (38.10%) JMeter
3 7 (33.33%) Cucumber
4 5 (23.81%) Gatling
4 5 (23.81%) JIRA
5 4 (19.05%) Git
5 4 (19.05%) WebDriver
6 2 (9.52%) Postman
6 2 (9.52%) TestCafe
7 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
7 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (4.76%) GitLab
7 1 (4.76%) GoCD
7 1 (4.76%) Pa11y
General
1 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (19.05%) Kafka
1 4 (19.05%) Web Services
2 3 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.76%) Playwright
3 1 (4.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Mac OS X
1 4 (19.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 10 (47.62%) Agile
3 7 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (28.57%) Manual Testing
5 5 (23.81%) BDD
5 5 (23.81%) Exploratory Testing
5 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (23.81%) Load Testing
5 5 (23.81%) Security Testing
5 5 (23.81%) TDD
6 4 (19.05%) Active Listening
6 4 (19.05%) Analytical Thinking
6 4 (19.05%) API Testing
6 4 (19.05%) Cross-Browser Testing
6 4 (19.05%) Customer Experience
6 4 (19.05%) Non-Functional Testing
6 4 (19.05%) Test Scripting
6 4 (19.05%) Test Strategy
7 3 (14.29%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) Java
2 4 (19.05%) Groovy
2 4 (19.05%) Scala
2 4 (19.05%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.76%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) PHP
3 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (47.62%) Accessibility
2 3 (14.29%) WCAG
3 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kibana
2 2 (9.52%) Grafana
3 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Terraform