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 £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 123 135
Rank change year-on-year +9 +12 +48
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 10 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.56% 0.14% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.15% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 9
10th Percentile £346 - £355
25th Percentile £413 £613 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +25.00% +13.90%
75th Percentile £676 £638 £663
90th Percentile £686 - £750
Central London median daily rate £475 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -24.00% +25.00% +12.49%

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 1,682 1,990 2,540
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.60% 93.38% 94.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,177 1,218 1,802
10th Percentile £327 £363 £350
25th Percentile £417 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £769 £781 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 13
10th Percentile £17.02 £16.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £24.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.25 £57.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.87% +59.72% -22.99%
75th Percentile £43.33 £112.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £63.93 £137.50 £72.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +34.62% -39.18%

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 25 November 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 25 November 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 9 (90.00%) Agile
1 9 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (60.00%) Azure
3 6 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) QA
4 5 (50.00%) Selenium
4 5 (50.00%) Validation
5 4 (40.00%) JIRA
5 4 (40.00%) Postman
5 4 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
5 4 (40.00%) Scrum
5 4 (40.00%) Test Management
5 4 (40.00%) Test Scripting
5 4 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (30.00%) .NET
6 3 (30.00%) Bitbucket
6 3 (30.00%) C#
6 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (30.00%) Cucumber
6 3 (30.00%) Degree
6 3 (30.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (30.00%) Git
6 3 (30.00%) ISTQB
6 3 (30.00%) Java
6 3 (30.00%) Prototyping
6 3 (30.00%) Rapid Prototyping

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 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Aladdin
1 1 (10.00%) ProductWriter
1 1 (10.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
1 6 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Selenium
2 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 4 (40.00%) Postman
3 3 (30.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (30.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (30.00%) Git
4 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (10.00%) GitLab
4 1 (10.00%) JMeter
4 1 (10.00%) LoadRunner
4 1 (10.00%) TestRail
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 4 (40.00%) Investment Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Back Office
3 3 (30.00%) Front Office
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) ADO
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
1 9 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Validation
4 4 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Scrum
4 4 (40.00%) Test Management
4 4 (40.00%) Test Scripting
4 4 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (30.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Prototyping
5 3 (30.00%) Rapid Prototyping
5 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) C#
1 3 (30.00%) Java
1 3 (30.00%) VB.NET
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) UiPath
2 1 (10.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) Workday