Test Engineer Contracts in Bristol

Test Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Test Engineer daily rate in Bristol is £580 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 77 94
Rank change year-on-year +8 +17 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 10 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.94% 1.20% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.34% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 8
10th Percentile £425 - £371
25th Percentile £500 £456 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +31.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £590 £575 £550
90th Percentile - - £572
South West median daily rate £538 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +13.16% - +11.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,009 1,046 1,338
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.01% 89.94% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 759 915
10th Percentile £258 £300 £278
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £588
90th Percentile £688 £714 £648
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 128 120
10th Percentile £29.19 £28.85 -
25th Percentile £45.00 £55.94 £15.90
Median hourly rate £66.25 £65.00 £42.54
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +52.82% +3.12%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.75 £65.90
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £64.07 £47.00
% change year-on-year -14.16% +36.32% +10.59%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Bristol

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in Bristol

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in Bristol

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 Bristol region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
3 6 (60.00%) Azure
3 6 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) Postman
3 6 (60.00%) TDD
3 6 (60.00%) Manual Testing
3 6 (60.00%) BDD
4 5 (50.00%) Performance Testing
4 5 (50.00%) Load Testing
4 5 (50.00%) Security Testing
4 5 (50.00%) NUnit
4 5 (50.00%) Scrum
4 5 (50.00%) SQL
4 5 (50.00%) .NET
4 5 (50.00%) Visual Studio
4 5 (50.00%) Playwright
4 5 (50.00%) Accessibility
4 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (50.00%) Task Automation
4 5 (50.00%) TypeScript
4 5 (50.00%) Docker
4 5 (50.00%) GraphQL
4 5 (50.00%) AngularJS
4 5 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 5 (50.00%) Waterfall
4 5 (50.00%) Kanban

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 6 (60.00%) Azure
1 6 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Broadband
1 1 (10.00%) HbbTV
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Postman
2 5 (50.00%) Git
2 5 (50.00%) NUnit
2 5 (50.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (20.00%) JIRA
3 2 (20.00%) Selenium
4 1 (10.00%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (10.00%) Automotive
1 1 (10.00%) Electronics
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (10.00%) Marketing
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) .NET
1 5 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 5 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 5 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
3 6 (60.00%) BDD
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) Manual Testing
3 6 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 6 (60.00%) TDD
4 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (50.00%) Kanban
4 5 (50.00%) Load Testing
4 5 (50.00%) Performance Testing
4 5 (50.00%) Scrum
4 5 (50.00%) Security Testing
4 5 (50.00%) Task Automation
4 5 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 5 (50.00%) Waterfall
5 4 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
1 5 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) SAP