Test Engineer Contracts in London

Test Engineer
England > London

The median Test Engineer daily rate in London is £438 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 381 455
Rank change year-on-year +67 +74 -63
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 75 120 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.42% 0.44% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.46% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 101 88
10th Percentile £345 £375 £359
25th Percentile £384 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £600 £511
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% +17.36% +20.29%
75th Percentile £512 £738 £628
90th Percentile £550 £810 £800
England median daily rate £427 £513 £466
% change year-on-year -16.59% +9.92% +13.03%

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 16,601 25,897 37,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,738 27,022
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 299 448
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.02
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.10% +1.43% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in London

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in London

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in London

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in London

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 Test Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 +39 10 £501 +6.21% 1
East London - 2 - - 3
South London +14 1 £300 -7.69%
Test Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 London region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 57 (76.00%) Test Automation
2 30 (40.00%) Java
3 28 (37.33%) Python
4 23 (30.67%) Security Cleared
5 22 (29.33%) JIRA
6 20 (26.67%) Selenium
7 19 (25.33%) SC Cleared
8 18 (24.00%) Test Scripting
8 18 (24.00%) AWS
8 18 (24.00%) Agile
9 17 (22.67%) CI/CD
10 15 (20.00%) Software Testing
11 14 (18.67%) JMeter
12 13 (17.33%) QA
13 12 (16.00%) User Acceptance Testing
13 12 (16.00%) Performance Testing
13 12 (16.00%) Scenario Testing
13 12 (16.00%) Public Sector
14 11 (14.67%) Jenkins
14 11 (14.67%) Finance
15 10 (13.33%) JavaScript
15 10 (13.33%) Cucumber
15 10 (13.33%) DevOps
15 10 (13.33%) Social Skills
16 9 (12.00%) SDLC
16 9 (12.00%) Test Strategy
16 9 (12.00%) BDD
16 9 (12.00%) Confluence
16 9 (12.00%) Azure
16 9 (12.00%) Manual Testing

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 9 (12.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.67%) CMS
3 1 (1.33%) nginx
3 1 (1.33%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (1.33%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.00%) AWS
2 9 (12.00%) Azure
3 5 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (5.33%) Serverless
5 3 (4.00%) BrowserStack
5 3 (4.00%) GitHub
6 2 (2.67%) GCP
6 2 (2.67%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.67%) Wireless
2 4 (5.33%) 5G
2 4 (5.33%) VLAN
3 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.33%) 3G
4 1 (1.33%) 4G
4 1 (1.33%) Broadband
4 1 (1.33%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (1.33%) DVB
4 1 (1.33%) HbbTV
4 1 (1.33%) MQTT
4 1 (1.33%) VPN
4 1 (1.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.33%) Big Data
2 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.33%) HDInsight
2 1 (1.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (29.33%) JIRA
2 20 (26.67%) Selenium
3 14 (18.67%) JMeter
4 11 (14.67%) Jenkins
5 10 (13.33%) Cucumber
6 7 (9.33%) Cypress.io
6 7 (9.33%) Postman
7 5 (6.67%) REST Assured
8 3 (4.00%) Gatling
8 3 (4.00%) Git
8 3 (4.00%) JUnit
8 3 (4.00%) TestNG
9 2 (2.67%) Appium
9 2 (2.67%) HP UFT
9 2 (2.67%) NUnit
9 2 (2.67%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.33%) GitLab
10 1 (1.33%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (1.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 12 (16.00%) Public Sector
2 11 (14.67%) Finance
3 10 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 7 (9.33%) Telecoms
5 6 (8.00%) Banking
5 6 (8.00%) Electronics
5 6 (8.00%) Manufacturing
5 6 (8.00%) Marketing
6 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.33%) Retail
8 1 (1.33%) Aviation
8 1 (1.33%) Back Office
8 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.33%) Law
8 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.00%) Gherkin
2 5 (6.67%) LDAP
3 4 (5.33%) AngularJS
3 4 (5.33%) Jest
3 4 (5.33%) Node.js
4 3 (4.00%) .NET
5 2 (2.67%) CSS
5 2 (2.67%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.67%) HTML
5 2 (2.67%) Playwright
5 2 (2.67%) REST
6 1 (1.33%) Middleware
6 1 (1.33%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.67%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.33%) Housing Association
4 1 (1.33%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.33%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.33%) MPEG
4 1 (1.33%) STB
4 1 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.00%) Android
1 3 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.33%) CentOS
2 1 (1.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.33%) Unix
2 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (76.00%) Test Automation
2 18 (24.00%) Agile
2 18 (24.00%) Test Scripting
3 17 (22.67%) CI/CD
4 15 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 12 (16.00%) Performance Testing
5 12 (16.00%) Scenario Testing
5 12 (16.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 10 (13.33%) DevOps
7 9 (12.00%) BDD
7 9 (12.00%) Manual Testing
7 9 (12.00%) SDLC
7 9 (12.00%) Test Strategy
8 8 (10.67%) Functional Testing
8 8 (10.67%) Non-Functional Testing
9 7 (9.33%) API Testing
9 7 (9.33%) Test Management
10 6 (8.00%) Digital Marketing
10 6 (8.00%) Programme Management
10 6 (8.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 30 (40.00%) Java
2 28 (37.33%) Python
3 10 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 8 (10.67%) Shell Script
5 6 (8.00%) SQL
5 6 (8.00%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.00%) C#
7 2 (2.67%) Perl
7 2 (2.67%) Ruby
8 1 (1.33%) Bash
8 1 (1.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 23 (30.67%) Security Cleared
2 19 (25.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.00%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.67%) Degree
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.33%) QA
2 5 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (8.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) iptables
2 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (10.67%) Grafana
1 8 (10.67%) Prometheus
2 4 (5.33%) Iperf
3 3 (4.00%) Ansible
3 3 (4.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.67%) Opsgenie
5 1 (1.33%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (1.33%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (8.00%) SAP
2 4 (5.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.67%) PagerDuty
3 2 (2.67%) Splunk
4 1 (1.33%) Adobe
4 1 (1.33%) Databricks
4 1 (1.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.33%) NEC
4 1 (1.33%) Qualtrics
4 1 (1.33%) Salesforce