Lead Test Engineer Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Lead Test Engineer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Lead Test Engineer daily rate in Tyne and Wear 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 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Test Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 0.42% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £508 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - -
75th Percentile £523 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £515 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 220 163 156
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 88.11% 91.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 83 109
10th Percentile £200 £311 £259
25th Percentile £357 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £549 £589 £600
90th Percentile £646 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 4
10th Percentile £13.67 £17.01 £14.20
25th Percentile £14.50 £42.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £19.25 £60.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -67.92% +144.90% +84.91%
75th Percentile £20.63 £70.00 £32.44
90th Percentile £39.20 - £33.23
North East median hourly rate £19.25 £46.18 £32.00
% change year-on-year -58.32% +44.31% +88.24%

Lead Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Test Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Lead Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £515 - 1
Lead Test Engineer
North East

Lead Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear 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