Test Engineer Contracts in Gloucester

Test Engineer
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The median Test Engineer daily rate in Gloucester is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucester 6.25% - 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.76% - 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £525
75th Percentile £625 - £563
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £600 £338 £500
% change year-on-year +77.78% -32.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £35.00 - £60.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Gloucester. 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 Gloucester with a recognized job title 74 132 148
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 88.00% 99.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 99 104
10th Percentile £321 £288 £147
25th Percentile £425 £400 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +31.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £538
90th Percentile £706 £675 £625
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile £18.55 £19.10 -
25th Percentile £20.13 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £21.00 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -73.08% - -
75th Percentile £24.50 - -
90th Percentile £30.80 £85.20 -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £40.00 £73.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -45.21% +143.33% -40.00%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Gloucester

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in Gloucester

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in Gloucester

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester

For the 6 months to 3 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 Gloucester region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (80.00%) C
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 4 (80.00%) Atlassian
2 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (80.00%) vSphere
2 4 (80.00%) Bash
2 4 (80.00%) Confluence
2 4 (80.00%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (80.00%) Bitbucket
2 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) VMware NSX
2 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Games

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester 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 (80.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Games
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) C
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (80.00%) VMware NSX
1 4 (80.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Atlassian