Testing Engineer Contracts in London

Testing Engineer
England > London

The median Testing Engineer daily rate in London is £650 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 384 499 594
Rank change year-on-year +115 +95 -
Contract jobs requiring a Testing Engineer 5 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.028% 0.004% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.004% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £644 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £692 - -
England median daily rate £650 - £610
% change year-on-year - - +80.74%

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%

Testing Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Testing Engineer in London

Testing Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Testing Engineer in London

Testing Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Testing Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Testing 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 Testing Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 4 (80.00%) Node.js
2 4 (80.00%) Gherkin
2 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
2 4 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (80.00%) React
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (20.00%) Internet
3 1 (20.00%) Back Office
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Wholesale Banking
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) QA

Testing 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 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Back Office
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) AWS CDK
1 4 (80.00%) Gherkin
1 4 (80.00%) Node.js
1 4 (80.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform