Testing Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Testing Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Testing Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 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
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Testing Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.013% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
UK median daily rate £506 - -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,833 16,764 20,477
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.06% 92.30% 94.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,433 10,035 13,791
10th Percentile £213 £220 £228
25th Percentile £361 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -1.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,262 1,626 1,155
10th Percentile £13.46 £13.85 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.31 £18.17 £17.89
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +7.50% +86.05%
75th Percentile £54.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.32
% change year-on-year -41.51% -0.73% +66.60%

Testing Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Testing Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Testing Engineer in the UK excluding London

Testing Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Testing Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Testing Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Testing Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Testing Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Testing Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Testing Engineer
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Testing Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands - 1 £450 -
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Testing Engineer
UK

Testing Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 August 2025, Testing 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 UK excluding London region featuring Testing Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PBX
1 1 (50.00%) 3G
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (50.00%) 2G
1 1 (50.00%) Handset
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (50.00%) 4G
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (50.00%) VoLTE
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) API Testing
1 1 (50.00%) 5G
1 1 (50.00%) Samsung
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions

Testing Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) 2G
1 1 (50.00%) 3G
1 1 (50.00%) 4G
1 1 (50.00%) 5G
1 1 (50.00%) PBX
1 1 (50.00%) VoLTE
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Testing
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Samsung