Test Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Test Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Test Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 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
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 89 107
Rank change year-on-year +4 +18 +35
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 17 15 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.23% 0.89% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 0.99% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 8
10th Percentile £350 £383 £436
25th Percentile £385 £401 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £436 £575 £538
90th Percentile £475 - £575
England median daily rate £425 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate - - £20.50
75th Percentile - - £22.75
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
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 1,296 1,510 2,070
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 89.88% 97.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 826 960 1,368
10th Percentile £263 £263 £225
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £619
90th Percentile £618 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 59 37
10th Percentile £16.50 £12.23 £12.17
25th Percentile £18.23 £13.50 £16.50
Median hourly rate £22.14 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.70% - +6.95%
75th Percentile £25.13 £38.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £49.75 £46.29
England median hourly rate £27.45 £40.33 £44.00
% change year-on-year -31.93% -8.35% +76.00%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in Yorkshire

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 Test Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
West Yorkshire +9 15 £430 -21.82% 6
South Yorkshire -6 2 £370 -12.94% 2
Test Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 Yorkshire region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (94.12%) Test Automation
2 13 (76.47%) Agile
3 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
4 8 (47.06%) Playwright
4 8 (47.06%) API Testing
5 7 (41.18%) REST Assured
5 7 (41.18%) WCAG
5 7 (41.18%) Selenium
5 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
5 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
6 6 (35.29%) TestNG
6 6 (35.29%) Cypress.io
6 6 (35.29%) TDD
6 6 (35.29%) Java
6 6 (35.29%) JMeter
6 6 (35.29%) Postman
6 6 (35.29%) Accessibility
6 6 (35.29%) Docker
6 6 (35.29%) Test Planning
6 6 (35.29%) GitLab
6 6 (35.29%) Cucumber
6 6 (35.29%) Test Strategy
6 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
7 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
7 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
7 5 (29.41%) Python
7 5 (29.41%) Maven
7 5 (29.41%) QA
7 5 (29.41%) Test Scripting
8 4 (23.53%) Cisco

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 (11.76%) AWS
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (11.76%) Serverless
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) SD-WAN
2 3 (17.65%) Ethernet
3 2 (11.76%) WAN
3 2 (11.76%) Wireshark
4 1 (5.88%) Firewall
4 1 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) REST Assured
1 7 (41.18%) Selenium
2 6 (35.29%) Cucumber
2 6 (35.29%) Cypress.io
2 6 (35.29%) GitLab
2 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
2 6 (35.29%) JMeter
2 6 (35.29%) Postman
2 6 (35.29%) TestNG
3 5 (29.41%) Maven
4 4 (23.53%) JUnit
5 3 (17.65%) Git
5 3 (17.65%) JIRA
6 1 (5.88%) TestRail
6 1 (5.88%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) Playwright
2 1 (5.88%) JSON
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) Node.js
2 1 (5.88%) RAML
2 1 (5.88%) React
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) SOAP
2 1 (5.88%) Swagger
2 1 (5.88%) Web Services
2 1 (5.88%) XML
2 1 (5.88%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Mainframe
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (5.88%) NHS
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Test Automation
2 13 (76.47%) Agile
3 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
4 8 (47.06%) API Testing
5 6 (35.29%) TDD
5 6 (35.29%) Test Planning
5 6 (35.29%) Test Strategy
6 5 (29.41%) Test Scripting
7 4 (23.53%) Defect Management
8 3 (17.65%) BDD
8 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (17.65%) Manual Testing
8 3 (17.65%) Non-Functional Testing
8 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (17.65%) Software Testing
8 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
9 2 (11.76%) ETL
9 2 (11.76%) Open Source
9 2 (11.76%) Test Management
9 2 (11.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Java
2 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
2 5 (29.41%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) Bash
4 2 (11.76%) SQL
5 1 (5.88%) JCL
5 1 (5.88%) REXX
5 1 (5.88%) XPath
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) CCNA
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) WCAG
2 6 (35.29%) Accessibility
3 5 (29.41%) QA
4 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco
2 3 (17.65%) Juniper
2 3 (17.65%) Nokia
3 2 (11.76%) Meraki
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Brio
4 1 (5.88%) IBM
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce