Test Engineer Contracts in West Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Test Engineer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £400 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 68 103 106
Rank change year-on-year +35 +3 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 8 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.80% 0.24% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.25% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 6
10th Percentile £380 - £431
25th Percentile £390 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% +22.58%
75th Percentile £415 £525 £488
90th Percentile £417 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £411 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.75% +5.26% +18.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 930 1,594 1,862
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 97.49% 97.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 1,105 1,343
10th Percentile £275 £327 £250
25th Percentile £400 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £493
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +6.60% +9.44%
75th Percentile £576 £600 £560
90th Percentile £668 £700 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 53
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.46 £10.29
25th Percentile £12.25 £14.46 £12.00
Median hourly rate £15.17 £32.50 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year -53.32% +92.88% -22.49%
75th Percentile £22.75 £66.88 £21.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £26.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.25 £22.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -35.23% +25.71% -7.89%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in West Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in West Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in West Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region 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
Leeds +36 5 £405 -19.00% 3
Wakefield - 2 £380 -
Test Engineer
Yorkshire

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 West Yorkshire region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Selenium
1 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
3 4 (50.00%) C#
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) WebDriver
4 3 (37.50%) Wind River
4 3 (37.50%) Java
5 2 (25.00%) .NET
5 2 (25.00%) Web Services
5 2 (25.00%) Unix
5 2 (25.00%) Windows
5 2 (25.00%) Validation
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) VMware
5 2 (25.00%) DHCP
5 2 (25.00%) HTTP
5 2 (25.00%) DNS
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (25.00%) Mac OS X
5 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (25.00%) JMeter
5 2 (25.00%) Git
5 2 (25.00%) Scala
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (25.00%) Manual Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Groovy
5 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Selenium
2 3 (37.50%) WebDriver
3 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (25.00%) Gatling
3 2 (25.00%) Git
3 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) JMeter
4 1 (12.50%) JUnit
4 1 (12.50%) TestNG
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) pytest
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) BDD
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Runbook
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Open Source
4 1 (12.50%) SDLC
4 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) Groovy
3 2 (25.00%) Scala
3 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Wind River
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) VMware