Senior Test Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Test Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Test Engineer daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 359 394
Rank change year-on-year -10 +35 +152
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 11 14 9
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.076% 0.092% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.098% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 9
10th Percentile £454 £406 £481
25th Percentile £475 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £588
90th Percentile £658 £585 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -

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 13,278 14,222 17,588
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 93.51% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,809 9,204 12,720
10th Percentile £340 £338 £329
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £685
90th Percentile £757 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 153 211
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.39 £17.75
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.06 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.82% - -
75th Percentile £56.69 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.79 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.30 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.94% -20.00% +38.46%

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Test Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior Test Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Senior Test Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Test Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Test Engineer job vacancies 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 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Test Engineer in London

Senior Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Test Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Test Engineer job vacancies in London

Senior Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +2 1 £475 +11.76%
South London -4 1 £475 +11.11%
Senior Test Engineer
England

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, Senior Test Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Senior Test Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (90.91%) Test Automation
2 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) Playwright
3 6 (54.55%) AWS
3 6 (54.55%) Docker
3 6 (54.55%) GitLab
3 6 (54.55%) Kafka
3 6 (54.55%) Middleware
3 6 (54.55%) QA
3 6 (54.55%) Test Strategy
4 5 (45.45%) API Testing
4 5 (45.45%) Gatling
4 5 (45.45%) GCP
4 5 (45.45%) gRPC
4 5 (45.45%) JMeter
4 5 (45.45%) JMS
4 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
4 5 (45.45%) Observability
4 5 (45.45%) Performance Engineering
4 5 (45.45%) Performance Testing
4 5 (45.45%) Python
4 5 (45.45%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (45.45%) REST
4 5 (45.45%) WebSockets
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
5 3 (27.27%) Java
5 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
5 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
6 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Aladdin
1 1 (9.09%) CODA-Financials
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) AWS
3 5 (45.45%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
5 1 (9.09%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) GitLab
2 5 (45.45%) Gatling
2 5 (45.45%) JMeter
3 2 (18.18%) JIRA
4 1 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 1 (9.09%) Git
4 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 1 (9.09%) Postman
4 1 (9.09%) Selenium
4 1 (9.09%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) Playwright
2 6 (54.55%) Kafka
2 6 (54.55%) Middleware
3 5 (45.45%) gRPC
3 5 (45.45%) JMS
3 5 (45.45%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (45.45%) REST
3 5 (45.45%) WebSockets
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (9.09%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Test Automation
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 6 (54.55%) Test Strategy
4 5 (45.45%) API Testing
4 5 (45.45%) Observability
4 5 (45.45%) Performance Engineering
4 5 (45.45%) Performance Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) ERP
6 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 2 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven
7 1 (9.09%) Exploratory Testing
7 1 (9.09%) Microservices
7 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (9.09%) Software Delivery
7 1 (9.09%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) QA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Charles River
1 1 (9.09%) CODA
1 1 (9.09%) Databricks
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) SAP