Test Engineer Contracts in the North East

Test Engineer
England > North East

The median Test Engineer daily rate in the North East is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 6 0 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.88% - 3.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.95% - 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 12
10th Percentile - - £415
25th Percentile £305 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £565
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.90%
75th Percentile £369 - -
90th Percentile £388 - -
England median daily rate £438 £430 £513
% change year-on-year +1.74% -16.10% +9.92%

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 308 305 414
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.25% 90.24% 97.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 140 319
10th Percentile £200 £190 £231
25th Percentile £344 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% -12.04% +13.68%
75th Percentile £558 £588 £625
90th Percentile £638 £653 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 63 2
10th Percentile - £10.42 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.50 £35.56
Median hourly rate £13.00 £13.99 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -65.67% +139.71%
75th Percentile £23.97 £34.50 £45.56
90th Percentile £49.73 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the North East

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in the North East

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in the North East

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 Test Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Tyne and Wear - 6 £350 - 8
Test Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Test Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 5 (83.33%) Java
3 4 (66.67%) API Testing
4 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (50.00%) Git
4 3 (50.00%) REST Assured
4 3 (50.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (50.00%) BDD
5 2 (33.33%) SAP
5 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (33.33%) Electronics
5 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
5 2 (33.33%) Finance
5 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (33.33%) Marketing
5 2 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (33.33%) AWS
5 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
5 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 2 (33.33%) Virgin Media
6 1 (16.67%) Serverless
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (16.67%) Terraform
6 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
6 1 (16.67%) RESTful

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 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Electronics
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) boto
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) API Testing
3 3 (50.00%) BDD
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
5 1 (16.67%) SDLC
5 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Test Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) SAP
1 2 (33.33%) Virgin Media