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The median contractor rate for a Test Engineer was £425 per day in advertised job vacancies during the 6 months to 8 April 2020. The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
| Test Engineer UK |
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6 months to
8 Apr 2020 |
Same period 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
| Rank |
294 |
325 |
407 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+31 |
+82 |
-15 |
| Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer |
490 |
782 |
572 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK |
0.80% |
0.81% |
0.56% |
| As % of the Job Titles category |
0.86% |
0.85% |
0.59% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
305 |
508 |
394 |
| Median daily rate |
£425 |
£413 |
£400 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+3.03% |
+3.13% |
+8.11% |
| 10th Percentile |
£289 |
£303 |
£287 |
| 90th Percentile |
£533 |
£565 |
£550 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£401 |
£390 |
£375 |
| % change year-on-year |
+2.69% |
+4.00% |
+7.14% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
34 |
43 |
33 |
| Median hourly rate |
£39.50 |
£42.00 |
£42.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-5.95% |
- |
+29.23% |
| 10th Percentile |
£31.50 |
£18.80 |
£30.00 |
| 90th Percentile |
£52.63 |
£47.38 |
£52.50 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£40.50 |
£42.00 |
£40.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
-3.57% |
+5.00% |
+23.08% |
The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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.
| All Contract IT Job Vacancies UK |
| Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title |
57,210 |
91,749 |
96,655 |
| % of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title |
93.81% |
94.65% |
94.97% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
36,320 |
60,807 |
63,684 |
| Median daily rate |
£460 |
£463 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
-0.61% |
+2.78% |
+5.88% |
| 10th Percentile |
£227 |
£275 |
£263 |
| 90th Percentile |
£650 |
£650 |
£630 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£425 |
£425 |
£405 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+4.94% |
+1.25% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
2,463 |
2,834 |
2,928 |
| Median hourly rate |
£20.00 |
£18.70 |
£18.63 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+6.95% |
+0.38% |
+0.70% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.80 |
£11.04 |
£11.00 |
| 90th Percentile |
£52.25 |
£50.00 |
£48.00 |
| Median hourly rate |
£18.90 |
£17.50 |
£17.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
+8.00% |
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Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings that featured Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer.
Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer over the 6 months to 8 April 2020.
Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer.
Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Engineer over the 6 months to 8 April 2020.
Test Engineer
Top 17 Contract Locations
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 UK over the 6 months to 8 April 2020. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills
For the 6 months to 8 April 2020, Test Engineer contract jobs required the following IT skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Test Engineer in the job title.
Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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