Test Engineer Contracts in the South East

Test Engineer
England > South East

The median Test Engineer daily rate in the South East is £426 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 178 193
Rank change year-on-year +32 +15 -32
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 59 39 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.06% 0.67% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 0.71% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 17 33
10th Percentile £300 - £353
25th Percentile £369 £225 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £556 £500 £488
90th Percentile £624 £519 £550
England median daily rate £430 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -16.10% +7.89% +14.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 7
10th Percentile £56.23 £39.35 £30.95
25th Percentile £59.11 £46.56 £31.25
Median hourly rate £59.44 £52.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.22% +61.54% -27.78%
75th Percentile £62.00 £62.63 £37.76
90th Percentile £62.30 £67.79 £39.66
England median hourly rate £42.50 £56.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -24.44% +7.14% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,153 5,511 7,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 94.43% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,094 3,838 5,032
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £394 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 479 242 335
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.24 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +129.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.45 £43.85
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.98 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the South East

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in the South East

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in the South East

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in the South East

Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Engineer in the South East

Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 25 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
Hampshire +28 33 £538 +9.14% 28
Thames Valley +6 17 £400 -15.79% 16
Berkshire -11 16 £400 -8.57% 7
Surrey +8 5 £431 +72.50% 10
Buckinghamshire +26 1 - - 9
Sussex -4 1 £427 -8.07%
East Sussex - 1 £300 -
West Sussex - 1 £425 -
Test Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 South East region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (52.54%) Agile
2 26 (44.07%) JIRA
3 25 (42.37%) SQL
4 20 (33.90%) Regression Testing
4 20 (33.90%) Security Cleared
5 17 (28.81%) SC Cleared
5 17 (28.81%) Software Testing
5 17 (28.81%) Scrum
6 16 (27.12%) Test Automation
7 15 (25.42%) Test Scripting
8 14 (23.73%) Integration Testing
8 14 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (22.03%) Confluence
9 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
10 12 (20.34%) Robot Framework
10 12 (20.34%) TestRail
10 12 (20.34%) VMware Infrastructure
10 12 (20.34%) Software Engineering
10 12 (20.34%) Validation
10 12 (20.34%) VMware
10 12 (20.34%) Python
11 11 (18.64%) Windows
11 11 (18.64%) Military
11 11 (18.64%) PKI
11 11 (18.64%) Performance Testing
11 11 (18.64%) CI/CD
12 10 (16.95%) Containerisation
12 10 (16.95%) End-to-End Testing
12 10 (16.95%) NETCONF
12 10 (16.95%) YANG

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (22.03%) Confluence
2 10 (16.95%) Apache
2 10 (16.95%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (15.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.69%) MTS
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.78%) AWS
2 1 (1.69%) Azure
2 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.95%) BGP
1 10 (16.95%) Ethernet VPN
1 10 (16.95%) MPLS
1 10 (16.95%) Radio Access Network
1 10 (16.95%) VPN
2 9 (15.25%) DHCP
2 9 (15.25%) DNS
3 3 (5.08%) SNMP
3 3 (5.08%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.39%) RS-232
4 2 (3.39%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (1.69%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.95%) MongoDB
1 10 (16.95%) NoSQL
1 10 (16.95%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (44.07%) JIRA
2 12 (20.34%) Robot Framework
2 12 (20.34%) TestRail
3 10 (16.95%) GitLab
4 3 (5.08%) Git
4 3 (5.08%) LabVIEW
5 2 (3.39%) ClearCase
5 2 (3.39%) ClearQuest
5 2 (3.39%) Eclipse
5 2 (3.39%) GoogleTest
5 2 (3.39%) Selenium
6 1 (1.69%) Appium
General
1 14 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.64%) Military
4 6 (10.17%) Telecoms
5 5 (8.47%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.39%) Automotive
6 2 (3.39%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.95%) NETCONF
1 10 (16.95%) REST
1 10 (16.95%) RESTCONF
1 10 (16.95%) SOAP
1 10 (16.95%) YANG
2 1 (1.69%) CSS
2 1 (1.69%) Flash
2 1 (1.69%) HTML
2 1 (1.69%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.64%) PKI
2 3 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.39%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.69%) Digital TV
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.64%) Windows
2 10 (16.95%) Linux
3 9 (15.25%) Windows Server
3 9 (15.25%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (11.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (52.54%) Agile
2 20 (33.90%) Regression Testing
3 17 (28.81%) Scrum
3 17 (28.81%) Software Testing
4 16 (27.12%) Test Automation
5 15 (25.42%) Test Scripting
6 14 (23.73%) Integration Testing
7 12 (20.34%) Software Engineering
7 12 (20.34%) Validation
8 11 (18.64%) CI/CD
8 11 (18.64%) Performance Testing
9 10 (16.95%) Containerisation
9 10 (16.95%) End-to-End Testing
9 10 (16.95%) Security Testing
9 10 (16.95%) Unit Testing
9 10 (16.95%) Workflow
10 9 (15.25%) Critical Thinking
11 8 (13.56%) System Integration Testing
12 6 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
13 4 (6.78%) Defect Tracking
Programming Languages
1 25 (42.37%) SQL
2 12 (20.34%) Python
3 4 (6.78%) C++
4 2 (3.39%) C
4 2 (3.39%) C#
4 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.39%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 20 (33.90%) Security Cleared
2 17 (28.81%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (15.25%) Degree
4 9 (15.25%) MCSA
4 9 (15.25%) MCSE
4 9 (15.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (10.17%) ISTQB
6 3 (5.08%) DV Cleared
6 3 (5.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (3.39%) HNC
7 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) QA
2 2 (3.39%) Def Stans
System Software
1 12 (20.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (16.95%) Docker
3 9 (15.25%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.69%) Firmware
4 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) VMware
2 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.39%) Google
3 2 (3.39%) HP