Senior Test Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Test Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Test Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 460 608
Rank change year-on-year +134 +148 -133
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 26 10 26
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.039% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.041% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 9 17
10th Percentile £358 £435 £320
25th Percentile £407 - £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £591 £515 £550
90th Percentile £625 £541 £569
UK median daily rate £450 £511 £425
% change year-on-year -11.98% +20.29% +9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £59.13 - -
25th Percentile £59.69 - -
Median hourly rate £61.25 - -
75th Percentile £62.19 - -
90th Percentile £62.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,380 24,650 42,718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,617 17,416 30,864
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +2.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 564 610
10th Percentile £14.30 £18.50 £13.10
25th Percentile £23.25 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Senior Test Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Test Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Test Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior Test Engineer.

Senior Test Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Test Engineer over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Senior Test Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Senior 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Test Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (57.69%) Security Cleared
1 15 (57.69%) Test Automation
2 12 (46.15%) Python
3 10 (38.46%) SC Cleared
4 9 (34.62%) Accessibility
5 8 (30.77%) JIRA
5 8 (30.77%) AWS
5 8 (30.77%) Java
6 7 (26.92%) Agile
6 7 (26.92%) Selenium
6 7 (26.92%) Non-Functional Testing
7 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
7 6 (23.08%) Performance Testing
7 6 (23.08%) Test Management
7 6 (23.08%) Software Testing
8 5 (19.23%) Regression Testing
8 5 (19.23%) Unit Testing
8 5 (19.23%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (19.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
8 5 (19.23%) Scenario Testing
8 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (19.23%) Bitbucket
8 5 (19.23%) SDLC
8 5 (19.23%) Terraform
8 5 (19.23%) Functional Testing
9 4 (15.38%) API Testing
9 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
9 4 (15.38%) Test Strategy
9 4 (15.38%) DevOps

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (15.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.85%) GitHub
3 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) JIRA
2 7 (26.92%) Selenium
3 5 (19.23%) Bitbucket
4 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
4 4 (15.38%) JMeter
4 4 (15.38%) Postman
5 3 (11.54%) Cypress.io
6 2 (7.69%) Git
6 2 (7.69%) JUnit
6 2 (7.69%) NUnit
6 2 (7.69%) Visual Studio
7 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.85%) Gatling
7 1 (3.85%) GitLab
7 1 (3.85%) GoCD
7 1 (3.85%) TestCafe
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Electronics
4 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.69%) Marketing
4 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Playwright
2 2 (7.69%) .NET
2 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 2 (7.69%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
1 4 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Test Automation
2 7 (26.92%) Agile
2 7 (26.92%) Non-Functional Testing
3 6 (23.08%) Performance Testing
3 6 (23.08%) Software Testing
3 6 (23.08%) Test Management
4 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
4 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (19.23%) Functional Testing
4 5 (19.23%) Regression Testing
4 5 (19.23%) Scenario Testing
4 5 (19.23%) SDLC
4 5 (19.23%) Unit Testing
4 5 (19.23%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (15.38%) API Testing
5 4 (15.38%) Creative Thinking
5 4 (15.38%) DevOps
5 4 (15.38%) Requirements Analysis
5 4 (15.38%) Test Scripting
5 4 (15.38%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Python
2 8 (30.77%) Java
3 4 (15.38%) Bash
3 4 (15.38%) C
3 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.69%) SQL
4 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.85%) C#
5 1 (3.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (57.69%) Security Cleared
2 10 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) Accessibility
2 3 (11.54%) WCAG
3 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (15.38%) VMware NSX
1 4 (15.38%) vSphere
2 3 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) Ansible
3 2 (7.69%) Kibana
4 1 (3.85%) Grafana
4 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Atlassian
2 2 (7.69%) SAP