Senior Test Engineer Contracts in Taunton

Senior Test Engineer
Somerset > Taunton

The median Senior Test Engineer daily rate in Taunton is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 17 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Taunton 3.13% 1.64% -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.13% 1.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £623 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% - -
Somerset median daily rate £600 £623 -
% change year-on-year -3.61% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Taunton

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Taunton. 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 Taunton with a recognized job title 32 60 52
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 98.36% 98.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 54 39
10th Percentile £461 £377 £400
25th Percentile £569 £565 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £522
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +24.64% +10.37%
75th Percentile £606 £700 £603
90th Percentile £625 £811 £681
Somerset median daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile - £15.60 -
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.84 -
Median hourly rate £13.00 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% - -
75th Percentile £14.25 £19.13 -
90th Percentile £15.60 £19.35 -
Somerset median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -50.00% +0.50% +15.70%

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Engineer in Taunton

Senior Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Engineer in Taunton

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 Taunton 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 Taunton 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