Test Engineer Contracts in Leeds

Test Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Test Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £481 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 60 93 105
Rank change year-on-year +33 +12 -48
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 7 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.88% 0.23% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 0.23% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 5
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £402 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +5.26% +14.46%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £488
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £406 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -18.75% +5.26% +14.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 736 1,277 1,510
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 98.08% 97.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 931 1,111
10th Percentile £300 £356 £275
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +6.10%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £663
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 21
10th Percentile £11.24 £12.00 £17.75
25th Percentile £11.75 £15.75 £19.00
Median hourly rate £12.53 £54.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -76.80% +141.07% +4.82%
75th Percentile £15.25 £70.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £17.67 - £28.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.34 £22.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -36.29% +28.57% -19.50%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 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 Leeds region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (85.71%) Java
3 5 (71.43%) TDD
3 5 (71.43%) Test Strategy
4 4 (57.14%) Finance
4 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
4 4 (57.14%) QA
4 4 (57.14%) Selenium
4 4 (57.14%) JUnit
4 4 (57.14%) Test Scripting
5 3 (42.86%) System Testing
5 3 (42.86%) Kanban
5 3 (42.86%) WebDriver
5 3 (42.86%) Unit Testing
5 3 (42.86%) Scrum
5 3 (42.86%) Gherkin
5 3 (42.86%) Analytics
5 3 (42.86%) User Stories
5 3 (42.86%) Software Delivery
5 3 (42.86%) API Testing
5 3 (42.86%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
5 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (28.57%) REST Assured
6 2 (28.57%) Gatling
6 2 (28.57%) Cross-Browser Testing
6 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
6 2 (28.57%) Kafka
6 2 (28.57%) ActiveMQ

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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JUnit
1 4 (57.14%) Selenium
2 3 (42.86%) WebDriver
3 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
3 2 (28.57%) Gatling
3 2 (28.57%) Git
3 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) JMeter
3 2 (28.57%) REST Assured
4 1 (14.29%) TestNG
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Gherkin
2 2 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) pytest
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Mac OS X
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) TDD
2 5 (71.43%) Test Strategy
3 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Test Scripting
4 3 (42.86%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (42.86%) Analytics
4 3 (42.86%) API Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (42.86%) Kanban
4 3 (42.86%) Scrum
4 3 (42.86%) Software Delivery
4 3 (42.86%) System Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Unit Testing
4 3 (42.86%) User Stories
5 2 (28.57%) BDD
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Groovy
2 2 (28.57%) Scala
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Wind River
6 Test Engineer jobs in West Yorkshire