Lead Test Engineer Contracts in England

Lead Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Test Engineer daily rate in England is £506 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 618 763
Rank change year-on-year +87 +145 -133
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Test Engineer 11 21 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.030% 0.044% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.047% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 11
10th Percentile £474 £503 £500
25th Percentile £491 £538 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £628 £625
Median % change year-on-year -19.32% +0.40% +35.14%
75th Percentile £534 £786 £638
90th Percentile £562 £823 -
UK median daily rate £506 £628 £600
% change year-on-year -19.32% +4.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38.40 - -
Median hourly rate £41.27 - £56.00
75th Percentile £44.13 - -
90th Percentile - - £56.10
UK median hourly rate £41.27 - £56.00
% change year-on-year - - +12.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,255 45,148 67,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,555 32,138 48,275
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 1,311 1,778
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.54
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Lead Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Test Engineer in England

Lead Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Test Engineer in England

Lead Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Test Engineer in England

Lead Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Test Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
London +87 4 £513 -18.33% 4
East of England - 4 - - 3
North of England +30 2 £475 - 1
North West - 2 £475 - 1
South East - 1 - - 2
Lead Test Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Lead 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 England region featuring Lead Test Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (45.45%) Test Strategy
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Manual Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) QA
4 2 (18.18%) C#
4 2 (18.18%) Java
4 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) .NET
4 2 (18.18%) JMeter
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 1 (9.09%) Go
5 1 (9.09%) NeoLoad
5 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Docker
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Line Management
5 1 (9.09%) Software Architecture
5 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis

Lead Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (9.09%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
1 2 (18.18%) JMeter
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) LoadRunner
2 1 (9.09%) NeoLoad
2 1 (9.09%) NUnit
2 1 (9.09%) Postman
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (9.09%) Electronics
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
1 1 (9.09%) Marketing
1 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
2 1 (9.09%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Test Strategy
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Testing
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Manual Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
5 1 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (9.09%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (9.09%) Housing Management
5 1 (9.09%) Kanban
5 1 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
5 1 (9.09%) TDD
5 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) C#
1 2 (18.18%) Java
1 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) Go
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) NEC
1 1 (9.09%) SAP