Test Engineer Contracts in the East Midlands

Test Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Test Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £360, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 August 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
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 63 68
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 6 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.78% 0.40% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.42% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £264 £238 £367
25th Percentile - £249 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £280 £375
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -25.33% +10.78%
75th Percentile £456 £307 £400
90th Percentile £496 £316 -
England median daily rate £405 £494 £513
% change year-on-year -18.02% -3.61% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.00 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £41.27 £52.50
% change year-on-year +21.17% -21.40% -6.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 683 719 838
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.05% 94.98% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 474 626
10th Percentile £200 £205 £213
25th Percentile £317 £355 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -6.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £600
90th Percentile £625 £621 £700
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.52% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 62 40
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.45 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.07 £14.88
Median hourly rate £22.20 £23.25 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -4.54% +9.37% +2.45%
75th Percentile £25.15 £48.16 £53.81
90th Percentile £30.30 £51.91 £71.88
England median hourly rate £25.66 £45.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -42.98% +5.88% +66.67%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the East Midlands

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in the East Midlands

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 8 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in the East Midlands

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in the East Midlands

Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire -8 4 £360 +14.29% 3
Nottinghamshire - 2 £476 - 2
Test Engineer
England

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 8 August 2025, 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 East Midlands region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) API Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Java
3 3 (50.00%) Finance
4 2 (33.33%) QA
4 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (33.33%) .NET
4 2 (33.33%) HTTP
4 2 (33.33%) LoadRunner
4 2 (33.33%) Load Testing
4 2 (33.33%) REST
4 2 (33.33%) Splunk
4 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
4 2 (33.33%) New Relic
4 2 (33.33%) Kibana
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) AppDynamics
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (33.33%) Postman
4 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) LoadRunner
1 2 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) DOM
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) API Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Load Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) AppDynamics
1 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 2 (33.33%) New Relic
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft