Test Engineer Contracts in Leeds

Test Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Test Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £420, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 July 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
28 Jul 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 59 86
Rank change year-on-year +8 +27 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 11 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.96% 1.07% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 1.17% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 1
10th Percentile £324 £488 -
25th Percentile £380 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £456 £575 £525
90th Percentile £480 £583 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £430 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -21.82% +10.00% +5.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 548 685 1,126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.68% 91.46% 98.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 451 776
10th Percentile £310 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £600 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 22 13
10th Percentile £25.15 £12.55 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.17 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £22.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.36% +18.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £50.48 £48.75 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 - £23.45
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.57 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +17.85% +5.26% +1.60%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Leeds

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in Leeds

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 28 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in Leeds

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 28 July 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 Leeds region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (90.91%) Test Automation
2 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
3 8 (72.73%) Playwright
4 7 (63.64%) API Testing
4 7 (63.64%) WCAG
4 7 (63.64%) Selenium
4 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
4 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
5 6 (54.55%) TestNG
5 6 (54.55%) TDD
5 6 (54.55%) JMeter
5 6 (54.55%) Java
5 6 (54.55%) GitLab
5 6 (54.55%) Cypress.io
5 6 (54.55%) Cucumber
5 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
5 6 (54.55%) Docker
5 6 (54.55%) Accessibility
5 6 (54.55%) REST Assured
5 6 (54.55%) Postman
6 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
6 5 (45.45%) Maven
6 5 (45.45%) Test Scripting
7 4 (36.36%) QA
7 4 (36.36%) Test Planning
7 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
8 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
8 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (18.18%) Serverless
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Selenium
2 6 (54.55%) Cucumber
2 6 (54.55%) Cypress.io
2 6 (54.55%) GitLab
2 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 6 (54.55%) JMeter
2 6 (54.55%) Postman
2 6 (54.55%) REST Assured
2 6 (54.55%) TestNG
3 5 (45.45%) Maven
4 3 (27.27%) JUnit
5 2 (18.18%) Git
5 2 (18.18%) JIRA
6 1 (9.09%) TestRail
6 1 (9.09%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) Playwright
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
1 1 (9.09%) NHS
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
1 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 10 (90.91%) Test Automation
3 7 (63.64%) API Testing
4 6 (54.55%) TDD
5 5 (45.45%) Test Scripting
6 4 (36.36%) Test Planning
7 3 (27.27%) BDD
7 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (27.27%) Non-Functional Testing
7 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (27.27%) Test Strategy
8 2 (18.18%) Defect Management
8 2 (18.18%) ETL
8 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
8 2 (18.18%) Manual Testing
8 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
8 2 (18.18%) Open Source
8 2 (18.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) WCAG
2 6 (54.55%) Accessibility
3 4 (36.36%) QA
4 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Brio
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
8 Test Engineer jobs in West Yorkshire