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 £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 220 281 276
Rank change year-on-year +61 -5 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 187 160 257
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.90% 0.70% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.74% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 96 163
10th Percentile £255 £319 £333
25th Percentile £375 £400 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +20.63%
75th Percentile £556 £539 £519
90th Percentile £599 £581 £575
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 12 25
10th Percentile £26.88 £49.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £35.75 £51.25 £30.50
Median hourly rate £43.64 £52.50 £50.85
Median % change year-on-year -16.88% +3.24% +13.00%
75th Percentile £61.81 £62.19 £56.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £69.88 -
UK median hourly rate £44.78 £52.50 £47.93
% change year-on-year -14.71% +9.55% +6.50%

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 19,202 21,479 29,126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.24% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,609 14,946 20,475
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,077 1,407
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.02
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.06
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +34 58 £426 -9.07% 48
North of England +26 47 £450 -10.00% 24
South West +8 36 £538 +14.67% 26
North West +29 32 £450 -5.26% 18
East of England +8 19 £435 -9.38% 27
Midlands +28 18 £255 -36.25% 37
East Midlands +25 17 £255 -32.00% 10
Yorkshire +16 15 £425 -15.00% 4
Scotland +36 5 £475 +2.70% 20
Wales +21 4 £375 -34.78% 2
West Midlands +13 1 £525 +16.67% 27
North East +2 1 - - 2
Test Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 (39.57%) Agile
2 68 (36.36%) Test Automation
3 52 (27.81%) JIRA
4 49 (26.20%) Test Scripting
5 48 (25.67%) SQL
6 47 (25.13%) Social Skills
7 44 (23.53%) Security Cleared
8 38 (20.32%) Software Testing
9 37 (19.79%) SC Cleared
10 32 (17.11%) Windows
11 30 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
12 28 (14.97%) Confluence
12 28 (14.97%) Scrum
13 27 (14.44%) Degree
14 26 (13.90%) Regression Testing
15 25 (13.37%) Microsoft
16 23 (12.30%) Java
16 23 (12.30%) Selenium
17 22 (11.76%) QA
17 22 (11.76%) Test Strategy
17 22 (11.76%) DevOps
17 22 (11.76%) TDD
17 22 (11.76%) Military
18 21 (11.23%) VMware
18 21 (11.23%) VMware Infrastructure
19 20 (10.70%) Performance Testing
19 20 (10.70%) DHCP
19 20 (10.70%) DNS
19 20 (10.70%) CI/CD
20 19 (10.16%) Microsoft Certification

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 28 (14.97%) Confluence
2 18 (9.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.21%) Apache
3 6 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.53%) MTS
Applications
1 13 (6.95%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.53%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (8.56%) Azure
2 14 (7.49%) AWS
3 13 (6.95%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.60%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.07%) GitHub
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.53%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.53%) GCP
6 1 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (0.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (0.53%) Serverless
6 1 (0.53%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.70%) DHCP
1 20 (10.70%) DNS
2 12 (6.42%) BGP
2 12 (6.42%) MPLS
3 9 (4.81%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.74%) Wireless
5 6 (3.21%) Ethernet VPN
5 6 (3.21%) Radio Access Network
5 6 (3.21%) VPN
6 4 (2.14%) HTTP
7 3 (1.60%) SNMP
8 2 (1.07%) 4G
8 2 (1.07%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (1.07%) tcpdump
8 2 (1.07%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.53%) Broadband
9 1 (0.53%) LTE
9 1 (0.53%) Modbus
9 1 (0.53%) Network Security
9 1 (0.53%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 6 (3.21%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.14%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.60%) Power BI
5 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 52 (27.81%) JIRA
2 23 (12.30%) Selenium
3 17 (9.09%) Git
4 15 (8.02%) JMeter
5 12 (6.42%) Jenkins
5 12 (6.42%) Postman
6 11 (5.88%) TestRail
7 10 (5.35%) Cucumber
7 10 (5.35%) Visual Studio
8 9 (4.81%) JUnit
9 8 (4.28%) GitLab
9 8 (4.28%) Robot Framework
10 7 (3.74%) Cypress.io
11 6 (3.21%) NUnit
12 5 (2.67%) Bitbucket
12 5 (2.67%) Gatling
12 5 (2.67%) LabVIEW
12 5 (2.67%) WebDriver
13 3 (1.60%) SpecFlow
13 3 (1.60%) TestCafe
General
1 47 (25.13%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (11.76%) Military
4 12 (6.42%) Telecoms
5 11 (5.88%) Aerospace
6 10 (5.35%) Automotive
7 9 (4.81%) Finance
8 5 (2.67%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.14%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.60%) Aviation
10 3 (1.60%) Electronics
11 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.95%) Playwright
2 11 (5.88%) .NET
2 11 (5.88%) REST
3 10 (5.35%) SOAP
4 6 (3.21%) AngularJS
4 6 (3.21%) Gherkin
4 6 (3.21%) NETCONF
4 6 (3.21%) RESTCONF
4 6 (3.21%) YANG
5 5 (2.67%) GraphQL
6 4 (2.14%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (2.14%) Kafka
6 4 (2.14%) Web Services
6 4 (2.14%) WinForms
6 4 (2.14%) WPF
7 3 (1.60%) Node.js
7 3 (1.60%) RESTful
8 2 (1.07%) React
9 1 (0.53%) CSS
9 1 (0.53%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.63%) PKI
1 18 (9.63%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (5.35%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.60%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.07%) Life Science
6 1 (0.53%) ASIC
6 1 (0.53%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.11%) Windows
2 18 (9.63%) Linux
2 18 (9.63%) Windows Server
2 18 (9.63%) Windows Server 2012
3 12 (6.42%) Unix
4 4 (2.14%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (39.57%) Agile
2 68 (36.36%) Test Automation
3 49 (26.20%) Test Scripting
4 38 (20.32%) Software Testing
5 28 (14.97%) Scrum
6 26 (13.90%) Regression Testing
7 22 (11.76%) DevOps
7 22 (11.76%) TDD
7 22 (11.76%) Test Strategy
8 20 (10.70%) CI/CD
8 20 (10.70%) Performance Testing
9 18 (9.63%) Critical Thinking
9 18 (9.63%) Validation
10 17 (9.09%) Time Management
11 15 (8.02%) BDD
11 15 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (8.02%) Manual Testing
11 15 (8.02%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (8.02%) Security Testing
11 15 (8.02%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (25.67%) SQL
2 23 (12.30%) Java
3 18 (9.63%) Python
4 17 (9.09%) C#
5 8 (4.28%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.28%) Shell Script
6 7 (3.74%) PowerShell
6 7 (3.74%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.21%) C++
8 5 (2.67%) Bash
8 5 (2.67%) C
9 4 (2.14%) Groovy
9 4 (2.14%) Scala
9 4 (2.14%) VB
9 4 (2.14%) VB6
10 2 (1.07%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 44 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 37 (19.79%) SC Cleared
3 27 (14.44%) Degree
4 19 (10.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (9.63%) MCSA
5 18 (9.63%) MCSE
5 18 (9.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 12 (6.42%) ISTQB
6 12 (6.42%) NVQ Level 3
7 4 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.14%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.14%) HNC
7 4 (2.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (2.14%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.60%) ISEB
9 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.76%) QA
2 17 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.60%) WCAG
4 2 (1.07%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.07%) GAMP
4 2 (1.07%) GxP
4 2 (1.07%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.53%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (11.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (9.63%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.42%) Docker
4 4 (2.14%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (2.14%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.14%) vSphere
5 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (3.21%) Terraform
2 4 (2.14%) Ansible
3 3 (1.60%) Kibana
4 2 (1.07%) Grafana
4 2 (1.07%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (13.37%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.23%) VMware
3 6 (3.21%) Juniper
4 4 (2.14%) Atlassian
4 4 (2.14%) Infragistics
4 4 (2.14%) Oracle
5 2 (1.07%) Google
5 2 (1.07%) HP
5 2 (1.07%) Siemens
6 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.53%) SAP