Lead Test Engineer Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Lead Test Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Lead Test Engineer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £620, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Test Engineer 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.77% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £516 - -
25th Percentile £576 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 - -
75th Percentile £633 - -
90th Percentile £637 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,100 536 900
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 96.06% 92.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 673 356 552
10th Percentile £298 £263 £300
25th Percentile £406 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £663 £600 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +4.11% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 11 27
10th Percentile £14.25 - £11.75
25th Percentile £17.34 - £12.39
Median hourly rate £25.54 £22.14 £15.23
Median % change year-on-year +15.36% +45.37% -29.16%
75th Percentile £31.50 £31.45 £48.75
90th Percentile £57.35 £34.46 £53.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.00 £21.24 £15.23
% change year-on-year +22.41% +39.46% -29.98%

Lead Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead Test Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Lead Test Engineer job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Lead Test Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Test Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Test Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Lead Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Leeds - 9 £620 - 2
Lead Test Engineer
Yorkshire

Lead Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 26 May 2026, Lead 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 West Yorkshire region featuring Lead Test Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (88.89%) Java
2 8 (88.89%) Microservices
2 8 (88.89%) Playwright
2 8 (88.89%) Test Strategy
3 7 (77.78%) AWS
3 7 (77.78%) BDD
3 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 7 (77.78%) Docker
3 7 (77.78%) GitHub
3 7 (77.78%) GitLab
3 7 (77.78%) Jenkins
3 7 (77.78%) Kafka
3 7 (77.78%) MongoDB
3 7 (77.78%) REST Assured
3 7 (77.78%) Selenium
3 7 (77.78%) Serenity BDD
4 6 (66.67%) Accessibility
4 6 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
4 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
5 5 (55.56%) Gatling
5 5 (55.56%) Grafana
5 5 (55.56%) Observability
5 5 (55.56%) Prometheus
5 5 (55.56%) Splunk
5 5 (55.56%) Spring
5 5 (55.56%) Spring Boot
5 5 (55.56%) Spring Cloud
6 4 (44.44%) Performance Testing

Lead Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
1 7 (77.78%) GitHub
2 3 (33.33%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) MongoDB
2 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) GitLab
1 7 (77.78%) Jenkins
1 7 (77.78%) REST Assured
1 7 (77.78%) Selenium
1 7 (77.78%) Serenity BDD
2 5 (55.56%) Gatling
3 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (22.22%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) Playwright
2 7 (77.78%) Kafka
3 5 (55.56%) Spring
3 5 (55.56%) Spring Boot
3 5 (55.56%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (11.11%) Node.js
4 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (88.89%) Microservices
2 8 (88.89%) Test Strategy
3 7 (77.78%) BDD
3 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 7 (77.78%) DevOps
4 6 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
5 5 (55.56%) Observability
6 4 (44.44%) Performance Testing
6 4 (44.44%) SDET
7 3 (33.33%) Build Automation
7 3 (33.33%) Component Testing
7 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (22.22%) API Testing
8 2 (22.22%) Functional Testing
8 2 (22.22%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Grafana
1 5 (55.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Splunk