Test Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Test Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Test Engineer daily rate in Cambridge is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 31 31
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 2.03% 0.50% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.30% 0.54% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £350 £400 -
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 174 185 202
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.32% 91.58% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 93 115
10th Percentile £250 £225 £182
25th Percentile £405 £331 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £420 £463
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.19% -2.63%
75th Percentile £621 £538 £538
90th Percentile £700 £635 £575
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £503 £441 £475
% change year-on-year +13.95% -7.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 22
10th Percentile £26.53 £22.51 -
25th Percentile £38.75 £26.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £49.10 £52.50 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% +178.37% -57.14%
75th Percentile £69.38 £57.50 £62.19
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.30 £21.37 £17.72
% change year-on-year -23.72% +20.60% +14.32%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Test Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Test Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge

Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Test Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Test Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge

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

For the 6 months to 6 October 2025, 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 Cambridge region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (50.00%) Data Science
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) LLM
2 1 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (25.00%) EU AI Act
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) pytest
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) pytest
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Data Science
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) API Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) LLM
2 1 (25.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) OWASP
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) HP
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft