Lead Test Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Lead Test Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Test Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 442 484
Rank change year-on-year +63 +42 -42
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Test Engineer 6 4 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.030% 0.017% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.018% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £435 £505
25th Percentile £463 £450 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.40% +13.08%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £544
90th Percentile - £565 £557
UK median daily rate £500 £628 £583
% change year-on-year -20.32% +7.73% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile £35.68 - -
25th Percentile £36.70 - -
Median hourly rate £41.27 - £56.00
75th Percentile £44.13 - -
90th Percentile - - £56.10
UK median hourly rate £41.27 - £56.00
% change year-on-year - - +12.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,796 21,663 29,128
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,116 20,427
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,107 1,446
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.02 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.92
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Lead Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Lead Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Test Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Lead Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Test Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Test Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
North of England +28 2 £475 - 1
East of England - 2 - - 4
North West - 2 £475 -
South East - 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 - -
Lead Test Engineer
UK

Lead Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Lead 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Test Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) QA
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) ASIC
3 1 (16.67%) JMeter
3 1 (16.67%) Electronics
3 1 (16.67%) LabVIEW
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (16.67%) NeoLoad
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Yield Management
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Azure

Lead Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) JMeter
1 1 (16.67%) LabVIEW
1 1 (16.67%) NeoLoad
General
1 1 (16.67%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) ASIC
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Yield Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA