Test Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Test Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 281 286
Rank change year-on-year +75 +5 -47
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 195 179 256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.95% 0.75% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 0.80% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 114 156
10th Percentile £258 £313 £328
25th Percentile £375 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% +8.89% +17.26%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £500
90th Percentile £599 £584 £575
UK median daily rate £434 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -13.25% +5.26% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 11 24
10th Percentile £28.19 £48.75 £17.00
25th Percentile £35.56 £51.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £44.78 £52.50 £51.68
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +1.60% +14.83%
75th Percentile £61.44 £67.17 £56.00
90th Percentile £63.25 £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate £44.78 £52.50 £50.85
% change year-on-year -14.71% +3.24% +13.00%

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 19,029 22,515 29,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.22% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,794 20,727
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,162 1,474
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

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 Test Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
South East +45 60 £425 -1.16% 67
North of England +27 54 £425 -15.00% 28
North West +32 37 £450 -5.26% 20
South West +18 36 £538 +8.59% 33
Midlands +37 20 £255 -36.25% 21
East Midlands +36 19 £255 -32.00% 5
Yorkshire +25 17 £419 -16.25% 7
East of England +5 17 £420 -8.70% 32
Wales +14 6 £363 -42.00% 6
Scotland +33 2 £364 -28.73% 11
West Midlands +22 1 £525 +6.28% 16
North East +5 1 - - 1
Test Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 UK excluding London region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 74 (37.95%) Test Automation
2 73 (37.44%) Agile
3 53 (27.18%) JIRA
4 44 (22.56%) Security Cleared
4 44 (22.56%) Social Skills
5 43 (22.05%) Test Scripting
6 42 (21.54%) SQL
7 39 (20.00%) Software Testing
8 33 (16.92%) SC Cleared
9 29 (14.87%) Selenium
9 29 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
10 28 (14.36%) Degree
11 27 (13.85%) Regression Testing
11 27 (13.85%) Scrum
12 26 (13.33%) Python
13 25 (12.82%) Windows
13 25 (12.82%) CI/CD
14 24 (12.31%) Java
14 24 (12.31%) Performance Testing
14 24 (12.31%) Confluence
15 22 (11.28%) AWS
15 22 (11.28%) Microsoft
16 21 (10.77%) Accessibility
17 20 (10.26%) Validation
17 20 (10.26%) Security Testing
17 20 (10.26%) Integration Testing
18 19 (9.74%) Test Strategy
18 19 (9.74%) DevOps
18 19 (9.74%) Military
18 19 (9.74%) C#

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:

Application Platforms
1 24 (12.31%) Confluence
2 15 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (5.13%) Apache
3 10 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.51%) MTS
Applications
1 13 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.54%) Simulink
3 2 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.28%) AWS
2 10 (5.13%) Azure
3 8 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.54%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.03%) GitHub
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.51%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.51%) GCP
6 1 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (0.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (0.51%) Serverless
6 1 (0.51%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.72%) DHCP
1 17 (8.72%) DNS
2 13 (6.67%) BGP
2 13 (6.67%) MPLS
3 10 (5.13%) Ethernet VPN
3 10 (5.13%) Radio Access Network
3 10 (5.13%) VPN
4 8 (4.10%) Wireless
5 7 (3.59%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.05%) HTTP
7 3 (1.54%) SNMP
8 2 (1.03%) 4G
8 2 (1.03%) RS-232
8 2 (1.03%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.51%) 5G
9 1 (0.51%) Broadband
9 1 (0.51%) HbbTV
9 1 (0.51%) LTE
9 1 (0.51%) Modbus
9 1 (0.51%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 10 (5.13%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.54%) Power BI
4 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 53 (27.18%) JIRA
2 29 (14.87%) Selenium
3 16 (8.21%) Jenkins
4 15 (7.69%) Cucumber
4 15 (7.69%) JMeter
5 13 (6.67%) TestRail
6 12 (6.15%) Git
6 12 (6.15%) GitLab
6 12 (6.15%) Robot Framework
7 11 (5.64%) Postman
8 9 (4.62%) Cypress.io
9 6 (3.08%) LabVIEW
9 6 (3.08%) WebDriver
10 5 (2.56%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.56%) Gatling
10 5 (2.56%) JUnit
10 5 (2.56%) NUnit
10 5 (2.56%) Visual Studio
11 3 (1.54%) SpecFlow
11 3 (1.54%) TestCafe
General
1 44 (22.56%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (9.74%) Military
4 12 (6.15%) Finance
5 10 (5.13%) Telecoms
6 8 (4.10%) Aerospace
7 7 (3.59%) Automotive
8 6 (3.08%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.56%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.54%) Electronics
11 1 (0.51%) Aviation
11 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Games
11 1 (0.51%) Law
11 1 (0.51%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.64%) REST
2 10 (5.13%) NETCONF
2 10 (5.13%) RESTCONF
2 10 (5.13%) SOAP
2 10 (5.13%) YANG
3 8 (4.10%) .NET
3 8 (4.10%) Playwright
4 6 (3.08%) RESTful
5 5 (2.56%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.05%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (2.05%) GraphQL
6 4 (2.05%) Kafka
6 4 (2.05%) Web Services
7 3 (1.54%) Node.js
8 2 (1.03%) CSS
8 2 (1.03%) Gherkin
8 2 (1.03%) React
9 1 (0.51%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.51%) Puppeteer
9 1 (0.51%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.74%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (8.72%) PKI
3 6 (3.08%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.54%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.54%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.03%) Life Science
6 1 (0.51%) ASIC
6 1 (0.51%) Digital TV
6 1 (0.51%) GNSS
6 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.82%) Windows
2 16 (8.21%) Linux
3 15 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 15 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
4 11 (5.64%) Unix
5 4 (2.05%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (37.95%) Test Automation
2 73 (37.44%) Agile
3 43 (22.05%) Test Scripting
4 39 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 27 (13.85%) Regression Testing
5 27 (13.85%) Scrum
6 25 (12.82%) CI/CD
7 24 (12.31%) Performance Testing
8 20 (10.26%) Integration Testing
8 20 (10.26%) Security Testing
8 20 (10.26%) Validation
9 19 (9.74%) DevOps
9 19 (9.74%) Test Strategy
10 17 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (8.72%) Non-Functional Testing
10 17 (8.72%) Time Management
11 16 (8.21%) BDD
12 15 (7.69%) Critical Thinking
12 15 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 42 (21.54%) SQL
2 26 (13.33%) Python
3 24 (12.31%) Java
4 19 (9.74%) C#
5 10 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.10%) C
7 7 (3.59%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.08%) C++
8 6 (3.08%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.08%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.56%) Bash
10 4 (2.05%) Groovy
10 4 (2.05%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.05%) Scala
11 2 (1.03%) Ada
11 2 (1.03%) Ada 95
12 1 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 44 (22.56%) Security Cleared
2 33 (16.92%) SC Cleared
3 28 (14.36%) Degree
4 16 (8.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (7.69%) MCSA
5 15 (7.69%) MCSE
5 15 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 12 (6.15%) ISTQB
6 12 (6.15%) NVQ Level 3
7 7 (3.59%) DV Cleared
8 6 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.54%) ISEB
9 3 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (1.03%) HNC
10 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.77%) Accessibility
2 15 (7.69%) QA
3 4 (2.05%) WCAG
4 2 (1.03%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.03%) GAMP
4 2 (1.03%) GxP
4 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.51%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (9.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.69%) Docker
3 4 (2.05%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (2.05%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.05%) vSphere
4 1 (0.51%) Firmware
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (3.08%) Terraform
2 4 (2.05%) Ansible
3 3 (1.54%) Kibana
4 2 (1.03%) Grafana
4 2 (1.03%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.23%) VMware
3 4 (2.05%) Atlassian
3 4 (2.05%) Wind River
4 3 (1.54%) Juniper
5 2 (1.03%) Google
5 2 (1.03%) HP
5 2 (1.03%) Siemens
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle
6 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.51%) SAP
6 1 (0.51%) Workday