Lead Test Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North East

Lead Test Engineer
England > North East

The median Lead Test Engineer daily rate in the North East is £515, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 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
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Test Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.34% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £508 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - -
75th Percentile £523 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -13.64% +22.22% -28.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 the North East with a recognized job title 264 246 224
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 88.81% 93.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 111 167
10th Percentile £191 £256 £253
25th Percentile £338 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £543 £590 £578
90th Percentile £642 £650 £667
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 27 7
10th Percentile £11.95 £11.03 £14.95
25th Percentile £13.75 £22.25 £16.63
Median hourly rate £19.25 £46.18 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.32% +44.31% +88.24%
75th Percentile £20.63 £48.09 £39.97
90th Percentile £48.80 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Lead Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Test Engineer in the North East

Lead Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Test Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £515 - 1
Lead Test Engineer
England

Lead Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 20 September 2025, Lead 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 North East region featuring Lead Test Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing

Lead Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google