Principal Test Engineer Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Principal Test Engineer
England > Yorkshire

As of 16 May 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Principal Test Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Test Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.040% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £630 £500 £775
% change year-on-year +26.00% -35.48% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,295 979 1,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.40% 94.13% 91.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,455 628 949
10th Percentile £318 £234 £262
25th Percentile £406 £364 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £560 £546 £575
90th Percentile £663 £613 £650
England median daily rate £513 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -2.19% -0.19% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 37 67
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.39 £11.25
25th Percentile £19.13 £17.25 £12.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £21.24 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.47% +46.48% -29.27%
75th Percentile £57.25 £22.14 £23.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £34.27 £53.75
England median hourly rate £45.56 £30.00 £37.18
% change year-on-year +51.85% -19.31% -17.38%

Principal Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Principal Test Engineer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Principal Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Test Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Principal Test Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2026, Principal 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 Yorkshire region featuring Principal Test Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) SDET

Principal Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Serenity BDD
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk