Senior Test Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Senior Test Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Senior Test Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £413 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 124 -
Rank change year-on-year +24 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 6 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.36% 0.087% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.091% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £395 - -
25th Percentile £400 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £463 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% - -
75th Percentile £438 £469 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £550 £400
% change year-on-year -18.18% +37.50% +4.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,545 2,187 2,646
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.53% 95.50% 97.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 957 1,487 1,935
10th Percentile £227 £256 £205
25th Percentile £375 £419 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 29 103
10th Percentile £11.23 £12.00 £10.71
25th Percentile £12.25 £17.24 £12.04
Median hourly rate £14.50 £22.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% +25.71% -7.89%
75th Percentile £23.75 £52.13 £22.53
90th Percentile £51.75 £70.00 £26.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Engineer in Yorkshire

Senior Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Engineer in Yorkshire

Senior 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 Senior Test Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
South Yorkshire 0 4 £425 -
West Yorkshire - 2 £400 - 1
Senior Test Engineer
England

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 26 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 job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Senior Test Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) JMeter
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (50.00%) BDD
3 3 (50.00%) WCAG
3 3 (50.00%) JIRA
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) TDD
3 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (50.00%) User Stories
3 3 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (33.33%) Gatling
4 2 (33.33%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Kafka
4 2 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (33.33%) Web Services
4 2 (33.33%) Unix
4 2 (33.33%) HTTP
4 2 (33.33%) Mac OS X
4 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (33.33%) Scala
4 2 (33.33%) AWS

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) JMeter
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
2 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) Gatling
3 2 (33.33%) Git
3 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
4 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Mac OS X
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) BDD
2 3 (50.00%) TDD
2 3 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (50.00%) User Stories
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Cross-Browser Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Business Case
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Open Source
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Groovy
2 2 (33.33%) Scala
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform