Test Engineer Contracts in England

Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Test Engineer daily rate in England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 389 422
Rank change year-on-year +86 +33 -57
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 266 277 399
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.72% 0.57% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.60% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 191 243
10th Percentile £295 £325 £326
25th Percentile £380 £425 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +18.60%
75th Percentile £538 £636 £548
90th Percentile £590 £738 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £505 £475
% change year-on-year -10.89% +6.32% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 11 21
10th Percentile £28.19 £48.75 £31.25
25th Percentile £35.75 £51.25 £37.50
Median hourly rate £44.78 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £59.89 £67.17 £56.00
90th Percentile £62.15 £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate £44.78 £52.50 £47.93
% change year-on-year -14.71% +9.55% +6.50%

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 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in England

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in England

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in England

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in England

Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Engineer in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Engineer in England

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 Test Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 10 May 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 +54 74 £438 -30.00% 27
South East +48 62 £425 -2.02% 69
North of England +35 50 £425 -15.00% 27
North West +35 36 £450 -5.26% 20
South West +14 35 £538 +13.16% 31
Midlands +34 19 £255 -36.25% 21
East of England +13 19 £420 -12.50% 28
East Midlands +34 18 £255 -32.00% 4
Yorkshire +19 14 £425 -15.00% 7
West Midlands +16 1 £525 +16.67% 17
North East +6 1 - -
Test Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 England region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 125 (46.99%) Test Automation
2 93 (34.96%) Agile
3 77 (28.95%) JIRA
4 74 (27.82%) Security Cleared
5 62 (23.31%) Test Scripting
6 58 (21.80%) SC Cleared
7 53 (19.92%) Software Testing
7 53 (19.92%) Java
7 53 (19.92%) Social Skills
8 52 (19.55%) Python
9 49 (18.42%) SQL
10 42 (15.79%) Selenium
11 41 (15.41%) AWS
12 37 (13.91%) Performance Testing
12 37 (13.91%) CI/CD
13 35 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
14 34 (12.78%) Confluence
15 33 (12.41%) Scrum
15 33 (12.41%) Regression Testing
16 32 (12.03%) Degree
17 29 (10.90%) QA
17 29 (10.90%) JMeter
18 28 (10.53%) Windows
18 28 (10.53%) DevOps
18 28 (10.53%) Test Strategy
19 26 (9.77%) Accessibility
20 25 (9.40%) Non-Functional Testing
20 25 (9.40%) Jenkins
20 25 (9.40%) Microsoft
20 25 (9.40%) Security Testing

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:

Application Platforms
1 34 (12.78%) Confluence
2 16 (6.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.38%) Apache
3 9 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.38%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) MTS
4 1 (0.38%) nginx
4 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.38%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.38%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.38%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 41 (15.41%) AWS
2 19 (7.14%) Azure
3 13 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (1.88%) GitHub
4 5 (1.88%) Serverless
5 4 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (1.50%) BrowserStack
6 3 (1.13%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.75%) GCP
7 2 (0.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (0.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.38%) SpeedCurve
8 1 (0.38%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (0.38%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.77%) DHCP
1 18 (6.77%) DNS
2 14 (5.26%) BGP
2 14 (5.26%) MPLS
3 13 (4.89%) Wireless
4 10 (3.76%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.76%) VPN
5 9 (3.38%) Ethernet VPN
5 9 (3.38%) Radio Access Network
6 5 (1.88%) 5G
7 4 (1.50%) HTTP
7 4 (1.50%) VLAN
8 3 (1.13%) 4G
8 3 (1.13%) SNMP
9 2 (0.75%) Broadband
9 2 (0.75%) HbbTV
9 2 (0.75%) RS-232
9 2 (0.75%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.38%) 3GPP
10 1 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.64%) MongoDB
2 10 (3.76%) NoSQL
2 10 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.13%) Power BI
4 2 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.38%) Big Data
5 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.38%) HDInsight
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 77 (28.95%) JIRA
2 42 (15.79%) Selenium
3 29 (10.90%) JMeter
4 25 (9.40%) Jenkins
5 21 (7.89%) Cucumber
6 20 (7.52%) Postman
7 18 (6.77%) Git
8 17 (6.39%) Cypress.io
9 13 (4.89%) GitLab
9 13 (4.89%) TestRail
10 11 (4.14%) Robot Framework
11 9 (3.38%) NUnit
12 8 (3.01%) Gatling
12 8 (3.01%) JUnit
12 8 (3.01%) Visual Studio
13 7 (2.63%) WebDriver
14 6 (2.26%) Bitbucket
14 6 (2.26%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.88%) LabVIEW
15 5 (1.88%) SpecFlow
General
1 53 (19.92%) Social Skills
2 35 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (7.89%) Military
4 20 (7.52%) Public Sector
4 20 (7.52%) Telecoms
5 17 (6.39%) Finance
6 11 (4.14%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.01%) Aerospace
7 8 (3.01%) Automotive
7 8 (3.01%) Electronics
8 7 (2.63%) Marketing
9 6 (2.26%) Banking
10 5 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.50%) Retail
12 2 (0.75%) Aviation
12 2 (0.75%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.38%) Front Office
13 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.51%) REST
2 11 (4.14%) .NET
2 11 (4.14%) Playwright
3 10 (3.76%) AngularJS
3 10 (3.76%) SOAP
4 9 (3.38%) Gherkin
4 9 (3.38%) NETCONF
4 9 (3.38%) RESTCONF
4 9 (3.38%) YANG
5 7 (2.63%) GraphQL
5 7 (2.63%) Node.js
6 5 (1.88%) Kafka
6 5 (1.88%) LDAP
6 5 (1.88%) RESTful
6 5 (1.88%) Web Services
7 4 (1.50%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (1.50%) CSS
7 4 (1.50%) Jest
8 3 (1.13%) HTML
9 2 (0.75%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.77%) PKI
1 18 (6.77%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (2.26%) Mobile App
2 6 (2.26%) Product Ownership
3 5 (1.88%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (1.50%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.75%) Life Science
7 1 (0.38%) Derivative
7 1 (0.38%) Digital TV
7 1 (0.38%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.38%) GNSS
7 1 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.38%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.38%) MPEG
7 1 (0.38%) STB
7 1 (0.38%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.38%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.53%) Windows
2 19 (7.14%) Linux
3 16 (6.02%) Windows Server
3 16 (6.02%) Windows Server 2012
4 14 (5.26%) Unix
5 4 (1.50%) Mac OS X
6 3 (1.13%) Android
7 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.38%) CentOS
7 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (46.99%) Test Automation
2 93 (34.96%) Agile
3 62 (23.31%) Test Scripting
4 53 (19.92%) Software Testing
5 37 (13.91%) CI/CD
5 37 (13.91%) Performance Testing
6 33 (12.41%) Regression Testing
6 33 (12.41%) Scrum
7 28 (10.53%) DevOps
7 28 (10.53%) Test Strategy
8 25 (9.40%) Non-Functional Testing
8 25 (9.40%) Security Testing
9 23 (8.65%) BDD
9 23 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (8.65%) Manual Testing
10 21 (7.89%) Scenario Testing
10 21 (7.89%) TDD
10 21 (7.89%) Validation
11 20 (7.52%) Integration Testing
12 19 (7.14%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 53 (19.92%) Java
2 52 (19.55%) Python
3 49 (18.42%) SQL
4 20 (7.52%) JavaScript
5 18 (6.77%) C#
6 15 (5.64%) Shell Script
6 15 (5.64%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.63%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.26%) Bash
8 6 (2.26%) C
8 6 (2.26%) C++
9 4 (1.50%) Groovy
9 4 (1.50%) Scala
10 2 (0.75%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.75%) Perl
10 2 (0.75%) Ruby
11 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 74 (27.82%) Security Cleared
2 58 (21.80%) SC Cleared
3 32 (12.03%) Degree
4 17 (6.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (6.02%) MCSA
5 16 (6.02%) MCSE
5 16 (6.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 15 (5.64%) ISTQB
7 12 (4.51%) NVQ Level 3
8 11 (4.14%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.50%) HNC
9 4 (1.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.13%) ISEB
10 3 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.38%) EMC Certification
11 1 (0.38%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.90%) QA
2 26 (9.77%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.50%) WCAG
4 2 (0.75%) Def Stans
4 2 (0.75%) GAMP
4 2 (0.75%) GxP
4 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (8.65%) Docker
2 19 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (6.02%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.50%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.50%) vSphere
5 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.38%) Firmware
6 1 (0.38%) iptables
Systems Management
1 10 (3.76%) Grafana
2 8 (3.01%) Prometheus
3 7 (2.63%) Ansible
3 7 (2.63%) Terraform
4 5 (1.88%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.50%) Iperf
5 4 (1.50%) Kibana
6 2 (0.75%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.75%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 25 (9.40%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.14%) VMware
3 7 (2.63%) SAP
4 5 (1.88%) Juniper
5 4 (1.50%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.13%) Oracle
7 2 (0.75%) Google
7 2 (0.75%) HP
7 2 (0.75%) PagerDuty
7 2 (0.75%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.75%) Siemens
7 2 (0.75%) Splunk
8 1 (0.38%) Adobe
8 1 (0.38%) Databricks
8 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.38%) EMC
8 1 (0.38%) NEC
8 1 (0.38%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.38%) Spotify
8 1 (0.38%) Wind River