Senior Test Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Test Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Test Engineer daily rate in London is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 384 483
Rank change year-on-year +55 +99 +111
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 22 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.046% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.049% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 7
10th Percentile - - £479
25th Percentile £380 £358 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £365 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -36.52% +24.32%
75th Percentile £438 £476 £609
90th Percentile £439 £579 £621
England median daily rate £425 £469 £550
% change year-on-year -9.33% -14.77% +25.00%

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 11,428 16,300 24,521
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 93.48% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,790 11,781 17,832
10th Percentile £349 £325 £363
25th Percentile £430 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.39% +0.04%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 315 279
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -22.86% -
75th Percentile £50.50 £44.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.35 £65.61 £82.30
England median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £44.77
% change year-on-year -18.14% -18.13% +94.40%

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 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Test Engineer 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 22 May 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 - 6 £425 -
South London - 2 £380 - 3
Senior Test Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, 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 21 (95.45%) Test Automation
2 18 (81.82%) AWS
3 17 (77.27%) REST
4 15 (68.18%) CI/CD
5 14 (63.64%) REST Assured
6 13 (59.09%) Selenium
7 12 (54.55%) JIRA
7 12 (54.55%) Java
7 12 (54.55%) Test Strategy
8 11 (50.00%) Jenkins
8 11 (50.00%) Test Scripting
8 11 (50.00%) API Testing
9 10 (45.45%) Postman
9 10 (45.45%) JavaScript
9 10 (45.45%) BDD
10 9 (40.91%) Agile
10 9 (40.91%) Python
10 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
11 8 (36.36%) Git
12 7 (31.82%) Cypress.io
12 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (31.82%) pytest
13 6 (27.27%) Open Source
13 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
14 5 (22.73%) Cucumber
14 5 (22.73%) QA
14 5 (22.73%) Performance Testing
14 5 (22.73%) Security Testing
14 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
14 5 (22.73%) Mentoring

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (81.82%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (13.64%) AWS CodePipeline
2 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (13.64%) AWS Step Functions
2 3 (13.64%) Serverless
3 2 (9.09%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (63.64%) REST Assured
2 13 (59.09%) Selenium
3 12 (54.55%) JIRA
4 11 (50.00%) Jenkins
5 10 (45.45%) Postman
6 8 (36.36%) Git
7 7 (31.82%) Cypress.io
8 5 (22.73%) Cucumber
9 3 (13.64%) GitLab
9 3 (13.64%) WebDriver
10 1 (4.55%) Appium
10 1 (4.55%) FitNesse
10 1 (4.55%) Gatling
10 1 (4.55%) JMeter
10 1 (4.55%) LoadRunner
10 1 (4.55%) SoapUI
10 1 (4.55%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Automotive
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (77.27%) REST
2 7 (31.82%) pytest
3 4 (18.18%) Node.js
3 4 (18.18%) Playwright
4 3 (13.64%) Jest
4 3 (13.64%) Puppeteer
5 1 (4.55%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.55%) Life Science
4 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Android
2 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) Test Automation
2 15 (68.18%) CI/CD
3 12 (54.55%) Test Strategy
4 11 (50.00%) API Testing
4 11 (50.00%) Test Scripting
5 10 (45.45%) BDD
6 9 (40.91%) Agile
7 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (27.27%) Open Source
9 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
9 5 (22.73%) Performance Testing
9 5 (22.73%) Security Testing
9 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
10 4 (18.18%) Coaching
10 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
10 4 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (18.18%) Microservices
10 4 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
10 4 (18.18%) Scrum
10 4 (18.18%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Java
2 10 (45.45%) JavaScript
3 9 (40.91%) Python
4 3 (13.64%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Databricks
1 1 (4.55%) Hitachi