Senior Test Engineer Contracts

Senior Test Engineer
UK

The median Senior Test Engineer daily rate in the UK is £450 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 552 677 810
Rank change year-on-year +125 +133 -147
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 48 36 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.060% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.064% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 26 29
10th Percentile £363 £440 £263
25th Percentile £400 £458 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £511 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.98% +20.29% +9.68%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £550
90th Percentile £613 £617 £567
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £550 £380
% change year-on-year -18.18% +44.74% -15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £59.50 - -
25th Percentile £60.63 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile £64.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,448 56,471 84,729
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,348 39,474 59,497
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,658 1,569 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -9.41% +117.95% +2.63%

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Engineer in the UK

Senior Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Engineer in the UK

Senior Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Engineer over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Test Engineer in the UK

Senior Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Test Engineer in the UK

Senior Test Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Engineer within the UK 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
England +126 48 £450 -18.18% 36
UK excluding London +87 38 £450 -18.18% 32
Work from Home +134 26 £450 +2.27% 12
North of England +46 21 £425 -10.53% 5
North West +37 15 £450 -8.86% 3
South West +18 13 £600 +9.09% 3
London +105 9 £373 -32.27% 3
Yorkshire +27 6 £413 -10.81% 1
South East +19 4 - - 11

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

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

1 29 (60.42%) Test Automation
2 18 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 18 (37.50%) Agile
3 16 (33.33%) Java
3 16 (33.33%) Accessibility
4 15 (31.25%) JIRA
5 14 (29.17%) Non-Functional Testing
6 13 (27.08%) SC Cleared
6 13 (27.08%) AWS
7 12 (25.00%) Test Strategy
7 12 (25.00%) Selenium
7 12 (25.00%) Manual Testing
7 12 (25.00%) Python
8 11 (22.92%) BDD
9 10 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (20.83%) Jenkins
9 10 (20.83%) Performance Testing
9 10 (20.83%) TDD
10 9 (18.75%) Load Testing
10 9 (18.75%) Security Testing
10 9 (18.75%) Git
10 9 (18.75%) Postman
11 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
11 8 (16.67%) CI/CD
11 8 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (16.67%) Test Management
11 8 (16.67%) Cucumber
11 8 (16.67%) DevOps
11 8 (16.67%) JMeter
12 7 (14.58%) Software Testing

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) MTS
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.08%) AWS
2 4 (8.33%) Azure
2 4 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.08%) BrowserStack
3 1 (2.08%) GitHub
3 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.08%) Serverless
3 1 (2.08%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) HTTP
1 4 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.17%) BGP
2 2 (4.17%) MPLS
3 1 (2.08%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (31.25%) JIRA
2 12 (25.00%) Selenium
3 10 (20.83%) Jenkins
4 9 (18.75%) Git
4 9 (18.75%) Postman
5 8 (16.67%) Cucumber
5 8 (16.67%) JMeter
6 5 (10.42%) Bitbucket
6 5 (10.42%) Cypress.io
6 5 (10.42%) Gatling
6 5 (10.42%) NUnit
6 5 (10.42%) Visual Studio
7 4 (8.33%) WebDriver
8 2 (4.17%) JUnit
8 2 (4.17%) TestCafe
9 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (2.08%) GitLab
9 1 (2.08%) GoCD
9 1 (2.08%) REST Assured
9 1 (2.08%) Serenity BDD
General
1 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.25%) Electronics
6 2 (4.17%) Finance
6 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.17%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.42%) .NET
1 5 (10.42%) AngularJS
1 5 (10.42%) Playwright
2 4 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (8.33%) GraphQL
2 4 (8.33%) Kafka
2 4 (8.33%) Web Services
3 3 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (2.08%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.08%) React
4 1 (2.08%) REST
4 1 (2.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.17%) Algorithms
1 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Linux
1 4 (8.33%) Mac OS X
1 4 (8.33%) Unix
1 4 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (60.42%) Test Automation
2 18 (37.50%) Agile
3 14 (29.17%) Non-Functional Testing
4 12 (25.00%) Manual Testing
4 12 (25.00%) Test Strategy
5 11 (22.92%) BDD
6 10 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (20.83%) Performance Testing
6 10 (20.83%) TDD
7 9 (18.75%) Load Testing
7 9 (18.75%) Security Testing
8 8 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 8 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (16.67%) DevOps
8 8 (16.67%) Test Management
9 7 (14.58%) API Testing
9 7 (14.58%) Software Testing
10 6 (12.50%) Exploratory Testing
10 6 (12.50%) Regression Testing
10 6 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 16 (33.33%) Java
2 12 (25.00%) Python
3 7 (14.58%) TypeScript
4 5 (10.42%) SQL
5 4 (8.33%) Bash
5 4 (8.33%) C
5 4 (8.33%) Groovy
5 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.33%) Scala
5 4 (8.33%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.17%) C#
7 1 (2.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 13 (27.08%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) Degree
4 2 (4.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.25%) WCAG
3 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 6 (12.50%) Docker
2 4 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (8.33%) VMware NSX
2 4 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) Terraform
2 4 (8.33%) Ansible
3 3 (6.25%) Kibana
4 2 (4.17%) Grafana
5 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (8.33%) Atlassian
2 2 (4.17%) Juniper
2 2 (4.17%) SAP