Test Engineer Contracts in Croydon

Test Engineer
South London > Croydon

The median Test Engineer daily rate in Croydon is £355 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - -11
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 1.37% - 3.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% - 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £311 - £374
25th Percentile £326 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 - £440
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.71%
75th Percentile £386 - £475
90th Percentile £404 - £483
South London median daily rate £355 £325 £440
% change year-on-year +9.23% -26.14% +25.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Croydon

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 144 149 161
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 98.63% 87.65% 96.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 118 129
10th Percentile £361 £448 £352
25th Percentile £425 £481 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £638
90th Percentile £630 £675 £700
South London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £17.00 - -
25th Percentile £17.25 - -
Median hourly rate £23.50 - -
75th Percentile £25.25 - -
90th Percentile £35.20 - -
South London median hourly rate £23.50 £36.94 £46.82
% change year-on-year -36.38% -21.09% +1.77%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Croydon

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in Croydon

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in Croydon

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 Croydon region featuring 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%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Kibana
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Spotify
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) Business Case
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Testing

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Business Case
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Kibana
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Spotify