Test Engineer Contracts in Bristol

Test Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Test Engineer daily rate in Bristol is £580 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 84 94
Rank change year-on-year +9 +10 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 7 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.67% 0.87% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.97% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 9
10th Percentile £468 £496 £318
25th Percentile £513 £513 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% +37.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £590 £575 £545
90th Percentile - £585 £570
South West median daily rate £559 £495 £463
% change year-on-year +12.88% +7.03% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £37.50 £73.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -49.15% +22.92% +26.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 997 1,139 1,361
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.04% 90.25% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 805 925
10th Percentile £236 £300 £272
25th Percentile £363 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £575
90th Percentile £688 £716 £650
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 146 113
10th Percentile £36.25 £32.76 -
25th Percentile £45.00 £57.25 £15.90
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +55.95% -1.18%
75th Percentile £74.27 £75.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £86.13 £65.60
South West median hourly rate £53.00 £65.00 £47.00
% change year-on-year -18.46% +38.30% +10.59%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Bristol

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in Bristol

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 Bristol region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) BDD
2 4 (57.14%) Non-Functional Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Postman
2 4 (57.14%) TDD
3 3 (42.86%) NUnit
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Load Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Security Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Integration Testing
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) .NET
3 3 (42.86%) Visual Studio
3 3 (42.86%) Playwright
3 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
3 3 (42.86%) GraphQL
3 3 (42.86%) Task Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
3 3 (42.86%) Manual Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Kanban
3 3 (42.86%) Git
3 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) TypeScript

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

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Postman
2 3 (42.86%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) NUnit
2 3 (42.86%) Visual Studio
3 2 (28.57%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
4 1 (14.29%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (14.29%) Selenium
4 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (14.29%) Electronics
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Law
1 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
1 1 (14.29%) Marketing
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
1 3 (42.86%) GraphQL
1 3 (42.86%) Playwright
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) BDD
2 4 (57.14%) Non-Functional Testing
2 4 (57.14%) TDD
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Integration Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Kanban
3 3 (42.86%) Load Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Manual Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Security Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Task Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
4 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
1 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
2 2 (28.57%) Ada
2 2 (28.57%) Ada 95
2 2 (28.57%) C
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) MATLAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) SAP
35 Test Engineer jobs in the South West