Test Engineer Contracts in the South West

Test Engineer
England > South West

The median Test Engineer daily rate in the South West is £559 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 130 129
Rank change year-on-year +11 -1 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 34 39 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.08% 1.10% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.19% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 23 34
10th Percentile £409 £319 £375
25th Percentile £503 £356 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £495 £469
Median % change year-on-year +12.88% +5.60% +10.29%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £500
90th Percentile £625 - £557
England median daily rate £450 £525 £473
% change year-on-year -14.29% +11.11% +17.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £25.00 £75.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +25.00% +26.32%
England median hourly rate £49.89 £52.50 £54.25
% change year-on-year -4.98% -3.23% +20.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 2,942 3,279 3,528
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 92.42% 95.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,869 2,449 2,526
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £396 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +9.14%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £718 £662
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 263 203
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.02 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £49.84 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +36.84% +11.76%
75th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £63.68
90th Percentile £77.50 £84.75 £69.13
England median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the South West

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in the South West

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in the South West

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in the South West

Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 7 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
Wiltshire +8 12 £538 +10.82% 10
Bristol +16 9 £585 +6.36% 9
Devon 0 5 £600 +140.00%
Gloucestershire 0 5 £600 +77.78% 9
Somerset 0 1 £600 +4.58% 5
Dorset - 1 £600 - 1
Test Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 South West region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 17 (50.00%) Agile
3 16 (47.06%) JIRA
4 13 (38.24%) Social Skills
4 13 (38.24%) SQL
4 13 (38.24%) Test Automation
4 13 (38.24%) SC Cleared
5 12 (35.29%) Non-Functional Testing
6 11 (32.35%) Test Scripting
6 11 (32.35%) Windows
7 10 (29.41%) Performance Testing
7 10 (29.41%) Confluence
8 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (26.47%) Python
9 8 (23.53%) Military
9 8 (23.53%) Test Strategy
10 7 (20.59%) BDD
10 7 (20.59%) Test Management
10 7 (20.59%) Manual Testing
10 7 (20.59%) Functional Testing
10 7 (20.59%) DevOps
10 7 (20.59%) Scenario Testing
10 7 (20.59%) TDD
10 7 (20.59%) Accessibility
10 7 (20.59%) Postman
11 6 (17.65%) Critical Thinking
11 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
11 6 (17.65%) NUnit
11 6 (17.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 6 (17.65%) PKI

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

Application Platforms
1 10 (29.41%) Confluence
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.65%) AWS
1 6 (17.65%) Azure
1 6 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) DHCP
1 6 (17.65%) DNS
2 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.94%) 4G
3 1 (2.94%) 5G
3 1 (2.94%) Broadband
3 1 (2.94%) HbbTV
3 1 (2.94%) Network Security
3 1 (2.94%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 16 (47.06%) JIRA
2 7 (20.59%) Postman
3 6 (17.65%) Git
3 6 (17.65%) NUnit
3 6 (17.65%) Visual Studio
4 5 (14.71%) Cypress.io
5 4 (11.76%) Bitbucket
5 4 (11.76%) Selenium
6 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
7 2 (5.88%) JUnit
8 1 (2.94%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (2.94%) LabVIEW
8 1 (2.94%) SpecFlow
General
1 13 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (23.53%) Military
4 3 (8.82%) Aerospace
4 3 (8.82%) Automotive
4 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Aviation
5 1 (2.94%) Electronics
5 1 (2.94%) Finance
5 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.94%) Marketing
5 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) .NET
1 6 (17.65%) AngularJS
2 5 (14.71%) GraphQL
2 5 (14.71%) Playwright
3 1 (2.94%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) PKI
2 3 (8.82%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 11 (32.35%) Windows
2 6 (17.65%) Windows Server
2 6 (17.65%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (14.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) Agile
2 13 (38.24%) Test Automation
3 12 (35.29%) Non-Functional Testing
4 11 (32.35%) Test Scripting
5 10 (29.41%) Performance Testing
6 8 (23.53%) Test Strategy
7 7 (20.59%) BDD
7 7 (20.59%) DevOps
7 7 (20.59%) Functional Testing
7 7 (20.59%) Manual Testing
7 7 (20.59%) Scenario Testing
7 7 (20.59%) TDD
7 7 (20.59%) Test Management
8 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
8 6 (17.65%) Critical Thinking
8 6 (17.65%) Customer Requirements
8 6 (17.65%) Kanban
8 6 (17.65%) Regression Testing
8 6 (17.65%) Scrum
8 6 (17.65%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) SQL
2 9 (26.47%) Python
3 6 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 6 (17.65%) TypeScript
4 4 (11.76%) Bash
4 4 (11.76%) C
4 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.88%) C++
5 2 (5.88%) Java
6 1 (2.94%) C#
Qualifications
1 18 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 13 (38.24%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.65%) MCSA
3 6 (17.65%) MCSE
3 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (17.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (11.76%) DV Cleared
5 3 (8.82%) ISTQB
6 2 (5.88%) Degree
7 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) PMO
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
1 6 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (14.71%) Docker
3 4 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (11.76%) VMware NSX
3 4 (11.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Ansible
1 4 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 6 (17.65%) VMware
2 4 (11.76%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.94%) SAP