Test Engineer Contracts in Nottinghamshire

Test Engineer
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The median Test Engineer daily rate in Nottinghamshire is £440 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 33 50
Rank change year-on-year +10 +17 -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 5 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 3.07% 1.90% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.21% 1.92% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile £414 £367 -
25th Percentile £435 £373 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £375 £358
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% +4.90% -
75th Percentile £445 £400 £374
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £303 £375 £313
% change year-on-year -19.25% +20.00% -33.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Nottinghamshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Nottinghamshire. 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 Nottinghamshire with a recognized job title 156 260 392
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.71% 98.86% 94.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 214 277
10th Percentile £205 £325 £266
25th Percentile £350 £415 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £550
90th Percentile £668 £743 £638
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +15.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 31
10th Percentile £12.42 £11.00 £8.37
25th Percentile £12.75 £11.80 £9.49
Median hourly rate £14.27 £20.00 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.65% +81.82% -11.06%
75th Percentile £15.25 £26.48 £15.94
90th Percentile £18.00 £30.00 £17.50
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.71 £20.16 £17.00
% change year-on-year -12.18% +18.59% +13.33%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Nottinghamshire

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in Nottinghamshire

Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
Nottingham +12 5 £440 +13.55%
Test Engineer
East Midlands

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottinghamshire

For the 6 months to 17 April 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 Nottinghamshire region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (60.00%) JUnit
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (60.00%) JUnit
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared