Test Development Engineer Contracts in England

Test Development Engineer
UK > England

The median Test Development Engineer daily rate in England is £425 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 532 639 754
Rank change year-on-year +107 +115 -129
Contract jobs requiring a Test Development Engineer 8 16 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.033% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.034% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 14
10th Percentile £403 £500 £328
25th Percentile £410 £523 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £413
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +45.45% -
75th Percentile £475 £675 £488
90th Percentile - - £546
UK median daily rate £425 £550 £413
% change year-on-year -22.73% +33.33% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,105 46,424 66,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.64% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,627 32,967 47,588
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £640
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,373 1,839
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.92 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Test Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Development Engineer in England

Test Development Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Development Engineer in England

Test Development Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Development Engineer in England

Test Development 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 Test Development Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
South East - 4 £450 - 6
East of England - 3 £420 - 2
London +73 1 £425 -29.17% 6
Test Development Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Test Development 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 Test Development Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Python
3 5 (62.50%) SDET
4 4 (50.00%) Bitbucket
4 4 (50.00%) Artifactory
4 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (50.00%) Open Source
4 4 (50.00%) Confluence
4 4 (50.00%) VirtualBox
4 4 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (50.00%) API Testing
4 4 (50.00%) Scrum
4 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
4 4 (50.00%) C++
4 4 (50.00%) SQL
4 4 (50.00%) Oracle
4 4 (50.00%) SOAP
4 4 (50.00%) XML
4 4 (50.00%) Windows
4 4 (50.00%) Linux
4 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) Degree
4 4 (50.00%) JIRA
4 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (50.00%) RESTful
4 4 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration

Test Development 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 4 (50.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (37.50%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 4 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
1 4 (50.00%) SOAP
1 4 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) Playwright
2 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (62.50%) SDET
3 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) API Testing
4 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (50.00%) Manual Testing
4 4 (50.00%) Open Source
4 4 (50.00%) Performance Management
4 4 (50.00%) Scrum
5 1 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Fintech
5 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) C++
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (50.00%) VirtualBox
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle