Principal Test Engineer Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Principal Test Engineer
North East > Tyne and Wear

As of 19 May 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Principal Test Engineer daily rate in Tyne and Wear.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Test Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.18% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North East median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 529 240 211
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.66% 95.62% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 175 97
10th Percentile £306 £240 £313
25th Percentile £400 £357 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £566 £590
90th Percentile £638 £633 £650
North East median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 11 38
10th Percentile £17.00 £11.60 £11.50
25th Percentile £53.75 £12.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £13.00 £13.99
Median % change year-on-year +400.00% -7.08% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £22.74 £48.75
90th Percentile - £48.75 £50.00
North East median hourly rate £65.00 £13.00 £13.99
% change year-on-year +400.00% -7.08% -65.67%

Principal 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 Principal Test Engineer within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 19 May 2026. 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 - -
Principal Test Engineer
North East

Principal Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 19 May 2026, Principal 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 Tyne and Wear region featuring Principal Test Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) SDET

Principal Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Serenity BDD
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk