Principal Test Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Principal Test Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

As of 4 June 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Principal Test Engineer daily rate in Birmingham.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Test Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 830 441 693
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.71% 88.73% 93.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 296 485
10th Percentile £313 £160 £250
25th Percentile £413 £368 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £590 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £657 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.32% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 39 42
10th Percentile £16.25 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.20 £12.62 £16.63
Median hourly rate £24.53 £14.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.21% -50.88% +42.50%
75th Percentile £30.00 £22.91 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £33.03 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £21.00 £19.77
% change year-on-year +61.86% +6.22% -1.15%

Principal Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 4 June 2026, Principal Test Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Principal Test Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) SDET

Principal Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Serenity BDD
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk