Test Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Test Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Test Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £411 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 113 129
Rank change year-on-year +29 +16 -49
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 15 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.89% 0.52% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 0.55% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 6
10th Percentile £383 £365 £431
25th Percentile £400 £439 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.75% +5.26% +16.92%
75th Percentile £436 £538 £488
90th Percentile £438 £575 -
England median daily rate £429 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -16.34% +7.89% +14.80%

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 1,535 2,184 2,672
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.42% 95.45% 97.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 956 1,490 1,957
10th Percentile £220 £250 £206
25th Percentile £375 £415 £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 64 31 103
10th Percentile £11.22 £12.00 £10.71
25th Percentile £12.25 £16.50 £12.04
Median hourly rate £14.25 £22.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.23% +25.71% -9.09%
75th Percentile £23.75 £50.77 £22.40
90th Percentile £48.75 £70.00 £26.22
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

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
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 24 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
West Yorkshire +42 8 £400 -20.00% 3
South Yorkshire -2 5 £425 -15.00% 1
North Yorkshire - 1 £425 - 5
Test Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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 12 (80.00%) Selenium
2 10 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 8 (53.33%) Java
4 7 (46.67%) JMeter
4 7 (46.67%) Finance
4 7 (46.67%) Agile
5 6 (40.00%) C#
6 5 (33.33%) Test Scripting
7 4 (26.67%) WCAG
7 4 (26.67%) Wind River
7 4 (26.67%) Accessibility
7 4 (26.67%) User Stories
7 4 (26.67%) Acceptance Criteria
8 3 (20.00%) WebDriver
8 3 (20.00%) JIRA
8 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
8 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
8 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
8 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
8 3 (20.00%) BDD
8 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
8 3 (20.00%) TDD
8 3 (20.00%) .NET
9 2 (13.33%) Web Services
9 2 (13.33%) Unix
9 2 (13.33%) Windows
9 2 (13.33%) Validation
9 2 (13.33%) Migration
9 2 (13.33%) DHCP
9 2 (13.33%) HTTP

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DHCP
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (80.00%) Selenium
2 7 (46.67%) JMeter
3 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (20.00%) JIRA
3 3 (20.00%) WebDriver
4 2 (13.33%) Gatling
4 2 (13.33%) Git
5 1 (6.67%) Appium
5 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (6.67%) JUnit
5 1 (6.67%) TestNG
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (13.33%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) Web Services
3 1 (6.67%) pytest
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Mac OS X
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 4 (26.67%) Acceptance Criteria
4 4 (26.67%) User Stories
5 3 (20.00%) BDD
5 3 (20.00%) TDD
5 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (13.33%) Cross-Browser Testing
6 2 (13.33%) DevOps
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Manual Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Migration
6 2 (13.33%) Open Source
6 2 (13.33%) Runbook
6 2 (13.33%) Validation
7 1 (6.67%) Business Case
7 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
7 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) Groovy
3 2 (13.33%) Scala
3 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Accessibility
1 4 (26.67%) WCAG
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Wind River
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) VMware