Lead Test Engineer Contracts in London

Lead Test Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Test Engineer daily rate in London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 388 474
Rank change year-on-year +39 +86 +121
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Test Engineer 4 3 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.032% 0.017% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.018% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 18
10th Percentile £423 £508 £534
25th Percentile £456 £520 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £540 £628
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% -13.94% -1.57%
75th Percentile - £560 £786
90th Percentile - £572 £823
England median daily rate £475 £540 £628
% change year-on-year -12.04% -13.94% +7.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Lead Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Test Engineer in London

Lead Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Test Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead 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 London region featuring Lead Test Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) JMeter
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Component Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (75.00%) Software Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Law
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing

Lead Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) JMeter
2 3 (75.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (75.00%) Law
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (75.00%) Component Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Software Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce