Test Engineer Contracts in South Wales

Test Engineer
Wales > South Wales

The median Test Engineer daily rate in South Wales is £363 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 46 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 6 10 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 1.72% 1.88% 2.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 1.98% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 21
10th Percentile £350 £460 £365
25th Percentile £352 £563 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -42.00% +13.64% +37.50%
75th Percentile £397 - £588
90th Percentile £460 £688 £625
Wales median daily rate £363 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -39.58% +9.09% +37.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 312 505 888
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.40% 95.10% 97.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 390 662
10th Percentile £161 £177 £200
25th Percentile £350 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £563 £564 £567
90th Percentile £644 £650 £638
Wales median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 27 38
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.85 £11.15
25th Percentile £15.20 £16.60 £12.24
Median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -8.89% +13.77%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.98 £26.69
90th Percentile £87.80 £49.25 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £19.09 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +5.21% -8.89% +20.67%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in South Wales

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in South Wales

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in South Wales over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in South Wales

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in South Wales

Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 19 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
Cardiff +15 6 £363 +20.83% 1
Test Engineer
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 South Wales region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Selenium
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
3 4 (66.67%) BDD
4 3 (50.00%) Azure
5 2 (33.33%) Java
5 2 (33.33%) SQL
5 2 (33.33%) Python
5 2 (33.33%) ETL
5 2 (33.33%) JMeter
5 2 (33.33%) Finance
5 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (33.33%) DevOps
6 1 (16.67%) GCP
6 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
6 1 (16.67%) GitHub
6 1 (16.67%) Analytics
6 1 (16.67%) Postman
6 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
6 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
6 1 (16.67%) C#
6 1 (16.67%) Scrum
6 1 (16.67%) JIRA
6 1 (16.67%) QA
6 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (16.67%) Project Management

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Selenium
2 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (33.33%) JMeter
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) BDD
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) ETL
4 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Kanban
5 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft