Senior Test Engineer Contracts in Croydon

Senior Test Engineer
South London > Croydon

The median Senior Test Engineer daily rate in Croydon is £380, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 2.20% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 - -
South London median daily rate £380 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Croydon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Croydon. 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 Croydon with a recognized job title 89 143 154
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.80% 98.62% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 88 123
10th Percentile £380 £360 £430
25th Percentile £463 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £663 £630 £679
South London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £23.50 -
South London median hourly rate £27.61 £23.50 £22.98
% change year-on-year +17.47% +2.26% -51.55%

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Engineer in Croydon

Senior Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Engineer in Croydon

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Croydon region featuring Senior Test Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SDET
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD

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

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) SDET
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared