Test Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Test Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Test Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 113 121
Rank change year-on-year +19 +8 +47
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 12 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.80% 0.048% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.053% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £233 - -
25th Percentile £305 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +18.11%
75th Percentile £506 £538 -
90th Percentile £525 - -
England median daily rate £425 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28.50 - -
Median hourly rate £29.00 - -
75th Percentile £29.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £41.27 £52.50
% change year-on-year +21.17% -21.40% -6.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,365 1,886 2,099
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.76% 91.29% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 858 1,274 1,452
10th Percentile £203 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 140 59
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.92 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.59 £15.12
Median hourly rate £24.34 £19.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +28.11% -8.23% +18.31%
75th Percentile £33.91 £35.63 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.13 £54.50
England median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £43.93
% change year-on-year -29.55% -8.95% +75.72%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the West Midlands

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in the West Midlands

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in the West Midlands

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in the West Midlands

Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Warwickshire +2 10 £450 -14.29% 21
Coventry - 1 £525 - 7
Test Engineer
England

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, 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 West Midlands region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (41.67%) HP ALM
2 5 (41.67%) Remote Testing
2 5 (41.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 5 (41.67%) Progress
2 5 (41.67%) LAN
2 5 (41.67%) WAN
2 5 (41.67%) Cisco
2 5 (41.67%) HP
2 5 (41.67%) Micro Focus
2 5 (41.67%) Telecoms
3 4 (33.33%) Wireshark
4 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Degree
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Security Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Automotive
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) API Testing
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
6 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (8.33%) Docker
6 1 (8.33%) Test Strategy
6 1 (8.33%) Functional Testing

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) GitHub
1 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) LAN
1 5 (41.67%) WAN
2 4 (33.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) JMeter
2 1 (8.33%) Postman
2 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
2 1 (8.33%) Selenium
2 1 (8.33%) TestNG
2 1 (8.33%) Travis CI
General
1 5 (41.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Automotive
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 5 (41.67%) Remote Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) API Testing
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Security Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Coaching
5 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (8.33%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (8.33%) Functional Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Microservices
5 1 (8.33%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) SIEM
5 1 (8.33%) Test Planning
5 1 (8.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Bash
1 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) CEH
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) HP ALM
2 1 (8.33%) Kibana
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco
1 5 (41.67%) HP
1 5 (41.67%) Micro Focus
1 5 (41.67%) Progress