Test Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Test Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Test Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 125 136
Rank change year-on-year +12 +11 +40
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 9 3 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.53% 0.14% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.15% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 11
10th Percentile £332 - £413
25th Percentile £361 £613 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +4.17% +36.67%
75th Percentile £576 £638 £641
90th Percentile £696 - £750
Central London median daily rate £400 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -36.00% +4.17% +34.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 1,591 1,982 2,724
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 93.58% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 1,221 1,887
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £424 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 14
10th Percentile £16.85 £16.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.06 £18.06
Median hourly rate £26.57 £57.50 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.79% +55.41% -11.90%
75th Percentile £36.00 £112.00 £48.25
90th Percentile £64.48 £137.50 £63.88
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.76% -2.78% -13.25%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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 the City of London.

Test Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in the City of London

Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Test Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Test Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 19 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 City of London region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (88.89%) Agile
1 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) Selenium
4 4 (44.44%) Azure
4 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (44.44%) QA
4 4 (44.44%) Software Testing
4 4 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (44.44%) Validation
5 3 (33.33%) Case Management
5 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
5 3 (33.33%) Degree
5 3 (33.33%) Postman
5 3 (33.33%) Salesforce
5 3 (33.33%) Scrum
5 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 3 (33.33%) Test Management
5 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
6 2 (22.22%) .NET
6 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
6 2 (22.22%) C#
6 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
6 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Git
6 2 (22.22%) Java

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Aladdin
1 1 (11.11%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) BrowserStack
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Selenium
2 3 (33.33%) Postman
3 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
3 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 2 (22.22%) Git
3 2 (22.22%) JIRA
4 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
4 1 (11.11%) GitLab
4 1 (11.11%) JMeter
4 1 (11.11%) LoadRunner
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Back Office
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Front Office
4 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) ADO
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
1 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (55.56%) DevOps
4 4 (44.44%) Software Testing
4 4 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (44.44%) Validation
5 3 (33.33%) Case Management
5 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 3 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
5 3 (33.33%) Scrum
5 3 (33.33%) Test Management
5 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
6 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Prototyping
6 2 (22.22%) Rapid Prototyping
6 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
7 1 (11.11%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) C#
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
1 2 (22.22%) VB.NET
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 2 (22.22%) MuleSoft
2 2 (22.22%) UiPath