Senior Test Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Test Engineer daily rate in England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 490 618
Rank change year-on-year +57 +128 +124
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 34 52 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.14% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.15% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 36 17
10th Percentile £380 £363 £460
25th Percentile £395 £409 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £469 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% -14.77% +25.00%
75th Percentile £461 £590 £599
90th Percentile £538 £613 £621
UK median daily rate £425 £469 £550
% change year-on-year -9.33% -14.77% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £59.50 -
25th Percentile £77.50 £60.63 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% - -
75th Percentile £82.50 £63.75 -
90th Percentile - £64.50 -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year +28.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,160 33,731 45,413
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,728 22,389 32,257
10th Percentile £293 £282 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.31% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 899 2,440 1,336
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -18.13% +94.40%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -18.89% +87.50%

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Engineer in England

Senior Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Engineer in England

Senior Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Test Engineer in England

Senior Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Test Engineer in England

Senior Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
London +55 22 £400 +9.59% 10
North of England +3 4 £475 +5.56% 14
South West +22 3 £525 -11.76% 6
South East +41 2 - - 21
Yorkshire +6 2 £475 +18.75% 9
North West 0 2 £445 -1.11% 3
East Midlands - 2 £476 - 2
Midlands - 2 £476 - 3
East of England - 1 - - 12
Senior Test Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 England region featuring Senior Test Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (94.12%) Test Automation
2 20 (58.82%) AWS
3 19 (55.88%) CI/CD
4 18 (52.94%) Java
4 18 (52.94%) Agile
5 17 (50.00%) Selenium
5 17 (50.00%) REST
5 17 (50.00%) API Testing
5 17 (50.00%) REST Assured
6 16 (47.06%) Postman
7 14 (41.18%) Jenkins
7 14 (41.18%) BDD
7 14 (41.18%) Test Strategy
8 13 (38.24%) Test Scripting
9 12 (35.29%) JIRA
9 12 (35.29%) JavaScript
9 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
10 11 (32.35%) SC Cleared
10 11 (32.35%) Security Cleared
10 11 (32.35%) QA
11 10 (29.41%) Cypress.io
11 10 (29.41%) Git
11 10 (29.41%) Playwright
12 9 (26.47%) Python
13 8 (23.53%) Cucumber
13 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (20.59%) Public Sector
14 7 (20.59%) Azure
14 7 (20.59%) Open Source
14 7 (20.59%) Performance Testing

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.82%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 20 (58.82%) AWS
2 7 (20.59%) Azure
3 4 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (11.76%) Serverless
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (8.82%) AWS CodePipeline
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (5.88%) GitHub
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 17 (50.00%) Selenium
2 16 (47.06%) Postman
3 14 (41.18%) Jenkins
4 12 (35.29%) JIRA
5 10 (29.41%) Cypress.io
5 10 (29.41%) Git
6 8 (23.53%) Cucumber
7 6 (17.65%) GitLab
8 3 (8.82%) JMeter
8 3 (8.82%) NUnit
8 3 (8.82%) WebDriver
9 2 (5.88%) Gatling
9 2 (5.88%) Maven
9 2 (5.88%) SpecFlow
9 2 (5.88%) TestNG
9 2 (5.88%) Visual Studio
10 1 (2.94%) Appium
10 1 (2.94%) SoapUI
10 1 (2.94%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Finance
2 7 (20.59%) Public Sector
3 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (14.71%) Electronics
4 5 (14.71%) Manufacturing
5 4 (11.76%) Marketing
5 4 (11.76%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Automotive
7 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (50.00%) REST
2 10 (29.41%) Playwright
3 7 (20.59%) pytest
4 5 (14.71%) .NET
5 4 (11.76%) Gherkin
5 4 (11.76%) Node.js
6 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
6 3 (8.82%) Jest
6 3 (8.82%) Puppeteer
7 2 (5.88%) PySpark
8 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
8 1 (2.94%) GraphQL
8 1 (2.94%) React
8 1 (2.94%) RESTful
8 1 (2.94%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.82%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.94%) Life Science
4 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Android
2 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.94%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (94.12%) Test Automation
2 19 (55.88%) CI/CD
3 18 (52.94%) Agile
4 17 (50.00%) API Testing
5 14 (41.18%) BDD
5 14 (41.18%) Test Strategy
6 13 (38.24%) Test Scripting
7 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (20.59%) DevOps
8 7 (20.59%) Microservices
8 7 (20.59%) Open Source
8 7 (20.59%) Performance Testing
8 7 (20.59%) TDD
9 6 (17.65%) Mentoring
9 6 (17.65%) Scrum
9 6 (17.65%) Security Testing
10 5 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (14.71%) Exploratory Testing
10 5 (14.71%) Non-Functional Testing
10 5 (14.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (52.94%) Java
2 12 (35.29%) JavaScript
3 9 (26.47%) Python
4 6 (17.65%) SQL
4 6 (17.65%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.94%) C#
5 1 (2.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) SC Cleared
1 11 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (11.76%) Degree
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (32.35%) QA
2 6 (17.65%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Grafana
1 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) SAP
2 3 (8.82%) Databricks
3 1 (2.94%) Hitachi