Testing Engineer Contracts

Testing Engineer
UK

The median Testing Engineer daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 688 844
Rank change year-on-year +108 +156 -119
Contract jobs requiring a Testing Engineer 5 1 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.002% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.002% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £644 - £474
25th Percentile - - £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +48.15%
75th Percentile - - £556
90th Percentile £692 - £589
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £485
% change year-on-year - - +43.70%

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 39,738 53,234 84,137
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,861 37,175 59,182
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,776 1,475 2,018
10th Percentile £12.81 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +87.50% +6.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Testing Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Testing Engineer in the UK

Testing Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Testing Engineer in the UK

Testing Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Testing Engineer in the UK

Testing Engineer
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Testing Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +110 5 £650 - 14
London +90 5 £650 - 4

Testing Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Testing 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 Testing Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 4 (80.00%) Node.js
2 4 (80.00%) Gherkin
2 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
2 4 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (80.00%) React
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (20.00%) Internet
3 1 (20.00%) Back Office
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Wholesale Banking
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) QA

Testing 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Back Office
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) AWS CDK
1 4 (80.00%) Gherkin
1 4 (80.00%) Node.js
1 4 (80.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform