Test Engineer Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Test Engineer
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The median Test Engineer daily rate in Northampton is £313, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 0.42% 1.75% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 2.02% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £273 -
25th Percentile £311 £293 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £326 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.99% - -
75th Percentile £314 £358 -
90th Percentile - £378 -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £313 £326 -
% change year-on-year -3.99% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Northampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northampton. 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 Northampton with a recognized job title 220 99 97
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 86.84% 98.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 82 77
10th Percentile £311 £314 £320
25th Percentile £363 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £391 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.93% -19.79% +21.88%
75th Percentile £488 £472 £534
90th Percentile £563 £575 £568
Northamptonshire median daily rate £444 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +11.09% -11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.39%
75th Percentile - - £19.59
90th Percentile - - £38.11
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £25.50 - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Test Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Test Engineer job vacancy trend in Northampton

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Engineer job vacancies in Northampton.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Engineer job vacancies in Northampton

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton

For the 6 months to 17 February 2026, Test Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Northampton region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft