Lead Test Engineer Contracts in London

Lead Test Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Test Engineer daily rate in London is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 470 608
Rank change year-on-year +81 +138 -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Test Engineer 4 17 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.023% 0.067% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.070% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 7
10th Percentile £501 £531 £608
25th Percentile £503 £538 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £628 £625
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +0.40% -
75th Percentile £549 £823 £638
90th Percentile £568 - £658
England median daily rate £506 £628 £625
% change year-on-year -19.32% +0.40% +35.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,385 24,202 36,842
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,830 17,663 27,089
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Lead Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Test Engineer in London

Lead Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Test Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 London region featuring Lead Test Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Load Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Line Management
3 1 (25.00%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (25.00%) NEC Housing
3 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving

Lead Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (25.00%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (25.00%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) JMeter
2 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (25.00%) NUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Load Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) NEC
1 1 (25.00%) SAP