Senior Test Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Test Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Test Engineer daily rate in London is £365 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 478 583
Rank change year-on-year +89 +105 -109
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 8 7 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.046% 0.027% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.028% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 10
10th Percentile - £479 £404
25th Percentile £358 £511 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £575 £463
Median % change year-on-year -36.52% +24.32% +19.35%
75th Percentile £476 £609 £569
90th Percentile £579 £621 £581
England median daily rate £456 £550 £425
% change year-on-year -17.05% +29.41% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,380 25,121 37,063
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 95.22% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,833 18,239 27,130
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 285 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.59
Median hourly rate £27.25 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.24% +1.43% +7.89%
75th Percentile £45.18 £62.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.00 £67.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +2.59%

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Engineer in London

Senior Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Engineer in London

Senior Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Test Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Test Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Unit Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Python
3 5 (62.50%) Software Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Regression Testing
3 5 (62.50%) SDLC
3 5 (62.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Postman
4 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Load Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Security Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Test Management
5 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Kanban
5 1 (12.50%) Android
5 1 (12.50%) Git
5 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
5 1 (12.50%) Azure
5 1 (12.50%) AWS
5 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
5 1 (12.50%) BDD
5 1 (12.50%) SQL

Senior 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 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) NUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (62.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Electronics
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
1 1 (12.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Regression Testing
2 5 (62.50%) SDLC
2 5 (62.50%) Software Testing
2 5 (62.50%) Unit Testing
2 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Kanban
4 1 (12.50%) Load Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Security Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Test Management
4 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) SAP