Test Engineer Contracts in Surrey

Test Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Test Engineer daily rate in Surrey is £325 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 60 77
Rank change year-on-year +7 +17 -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 3 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.51% 1.33% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 1.39% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 4
10th Percentile £283 - -
25th Percentile £294 £225 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £250 £431
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -42.03% -
75th Percentile £344 £275 £625
90th Percentile £348 - -
South East median daily rate £425 £415 £425
% change year-on-year +2.41% -2.35% +21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - £37.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 - £40.00
75th Percentile £33.75 - £42.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £59.44 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.22% +61.54% -27.78%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 544 646 856
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 95.28% 97.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 473 606
10th Percentile £200 £199 £185
25th Percentile £370 £316 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £589
90th Percentile £691 £700 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £489
% change year-on-year - +2.16% +8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 38 23
10th Percentile £12.34 £19.53 £11.78
25th Percentile £13.25 £42.50 £17.79
Median hourly rate £22.54 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.91% +114.29% -49.70%
75th Percentile £57.88 £61.49 £46.88
90th Percentile £76.86 £64.13 £48.50
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Surrey

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in Surrey

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in Surrey

Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 29 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
Redhill - 2 £325 -
Test Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 Surrey region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Unix
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (66.67%) HNC
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Confluence
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Project Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) Automotive
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) TestRail
2 2 (66.67%) Exploratory Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (33.33%) Digital TV
3 1 (33.33%) Firmware
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) TestRail
General
1 2 (66.67%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Flash
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Digital TV
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Exploratory Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Project Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (33.33%) Quality Management
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (66.67%) HNC
2 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware