Senior Test Engineer Contracts in Somerset

Senior Test Engineer
South West > Somerset

The median Senior Test Engineer daily rate in Somerset is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 33 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 0.49% 0.48% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.49% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £623 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% - -
South West median daily rate £600 £550 £275
% change year-on-year +9.09% +100.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Somerset

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Somerset. 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 Somerset with a recognized job title 189 206 200
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 98.56% 97.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 155 143
10th Percentile £160 £190 £227
25th Percentile £250 £363 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £429
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +7.81% -4.67%
75th Percentile £578 £650 £531
90th Percentile £604 £725 £599
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 9
10th Percentile £12.25 £17.38 £36.49
25th Percentile £14.95 £32.11 £46.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £45.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% -9.55% +14.37%
75th Percentile £40.00 £60.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £48.00 £67.59 £57.75
South West median hourly rate £47.83 £65.00 £45.20
% change year-on-year -26.42% +43.81% +5.73%

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Engineer in Somerset

Senior Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Engineer in Somerset

Senior Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 16 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
Taunton +5 1 £600 -3.61%
Senior Test Engineer
South West

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset

For the 6 months to 16 April 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 Somerset region featuring Senior Test Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript