Test Engineer Contracts in London

Test Engineer
England > London

The median Test Engineer daily rate in London is £438 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 320 374 459
Rank change year-on-year +54 +85 -70
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 74 115 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.42% 0.44% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.46% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 96 91
10th Percentile £345 £406 £363
25th Percentile £381 £499 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +25.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £512 £738 £631
90th Percentile £573 £816 £800
England median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +18.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £44.78 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -14.71% - +16.67%

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 16,466 24,974 36,637
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 95.21% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,897 18,116 26,808
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £685 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 280 441
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.86 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £46.48 £62.95 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.02 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in London

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in London

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in London

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in London

Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +35 8 £501 +4.38% 1
South London +8 2 £355 +9.23%
East London - 1 - - 1
Test Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (75.68%) Test Automation
2 29 (39.19%) Java
3 27 (36.49%) Python
4 25 (33.78%) Security Cleared
5 23 (31.08%) JIRA
6 21 (28.38%) SC Cleared
7 20 (27.03%) Selenium
8 19 (25.68%) Agile
9 18 (24.32%) AWS
10 17 (22.97%) Test Scripting
11 16 (21.62%) CI/CD
12 14 (18.92%) Software Testing
12 14 (18.92%) QA
12 14 (18.92%) JMeter
13 13 (17.57%) User Acceptance Testing
13 13 (17.57%) Public Sector
14 12 (16.22%) Scenario Testing
14 12 (16.22%) Performance Testing
15 11 (14.86%) Social Skills
15 11 (14.86%) Jenkins
15 11 (14.86%) DevOps
16 10 (13.51%) Azure
16 10 (13.51%) Cucumber
16 10 (13.51%) Finance
17 9 (12.16%) JavaScript
17 9 (12.16%) Manual Testing
17 9 (12.16%) BDD
17 9 (12.16%) Confluence
17 9 (12.16%) Test Strategy
17 9 (12.16%) SDLC

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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (12.16%) Confluence
2 1 (1.35%) CMS
2 1 (1.35%) nginx
2 1 (1.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (1.35%) NEC Housing
1 1 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.32%) AWS
2 10 (13.51%) Azure
3 6 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (5.41%) GitHub
4 4 (5.41%) Serverless
5 3 (4.05%) BrowserStack
6 2 (2.70%) GCP
7 1 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.35%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (1.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.76%) Wireless
2 4 (5.41%) 5G
2 4 (5.41%) VLAN
3 2 (2.70%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.35%) 3G
4 1 (1.35%) 4G
4 1 (1.35%) Broadband
4 1 (1.35%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (1.35%) DVB
4 1 (1.35%) HbbTV
4 1 (1.35%) MQTT
4 1 (1.35%) VPN
4 1 (1.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.35%) Big Data
2 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.35%) HDInsight
2 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (31.08%) JIRA
2 20 (27.03%) Selenium
3 14 (18.92%) JMeter
4 11 (14.86%) Jenkins
5 10 (13.51%) Cucumber
6 7 (9.46%) Cypress.io
6 7 (9.46%) Postman
7 4 (5.41%) Git
7 4 (5.41%) REST Assured
8 3 (4.05%) Gatling
8 3 (4.05%) NUnit
9 2 (2.70%) Appium
9 2 (2.70%) GitLab
9 2 (2.70%) HP UFT
9 2 (2.70%) JUnit
9 2 (2.70%) SpecFlow
9 2 (2.70%) TestNG
9 2 (2.70%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.35%) IntelliJ
10 1 (1.35%) LoadRunner
General
1 13 (17.57%) Public Sector
2 11 (14.86%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.51%) Finance
4 7 (9.46%) Telecoms
5 6 (8.11%) Banking
5 6 (8.11%) Electronics
5 6 (8.11%) Manufacturing
5 6 (8.11%) Marketing
6 5 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.41%) Retail
8 2 (2.70%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.35%) Aviation
9 1 (1.35%) Back Office
9 1 (1.35%) Front Office
9 1 (1.35%) Law
9 1 (1.35%) Military
9 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.11%) Gherkin
2 5 (6.76%) LDAP
3 4 (5.41%) .NET
3 4 (5.41%) AngularJS
3 4 (5.41%) Jest
3 4 (5.41%) Node.js
4 2 (2.70%) CSS
4 2 (2.70%) GraphQL
4 2 (2.70%) HTML
4 2 (2.70%) Playwright
5 1 (1.35%) Kafka
5 1 (1.35%) Middleware
5 1 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.35%) REST
5 1 (1.35%) Web Services
5 1 (1.35%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.11%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.35%) Derivative
4 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.35%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.35%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.35%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.35%) MPEG
4 1 (1.35%) STB
4 1 (1.35%) Thin Client
4 1 (1.35%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.05%) Android
1 3 (4.05%) Linux
2 2 (2.70%) Unix
2 2 (2.70%) Windows
3 1 (1.35%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.35%) CentOS
3 1 (1.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (75.68%) Test Automation
2 19 (25.68%) Agile
3 17 (22.97%) Test Scripting
4 16 (21.62%) CI/CD
5 14 (18.92%) Software Testing
6 13 (17.57%) User Acceptance Testing
7 12 (16.22%) Performance Testing
7 12 (16.22%) Scenario Testing
8 11 (14.86%) DevOps
9 9 (12.16%) BDD
9 9 (12.16%) Manual Testing
9 9 (12.16%) SDLC
9 9 (12.16%) Test Strategy
10 8 (10.81%) Functional Testing
10 8 (10.81%) Non-Functional Testing
10 8 (10.81%) Test Management
11 6 (8.11%) API Testing
11 6 (8.11%) Digital Marketing
11 6 (8.11%) Operational Acceptance Testing
11 6 (8.11%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (39.19%) Java
2 27 (36.49%) Python
3 9 (12.16%) JavaScript
4 8 (10.81%) Shell Script
5 7 (9.46%) SQL
5 7 (9.46%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.05%) C#
7 2 (2.70%) Perl
7 2 (2.70%) Ruby
8 1 (1.35%) Bash
8 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 25 (33.78%) Security Cleared
2 21 (28.38%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.41%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.05%) Degree
5 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.70%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.35%) EMC Certification
6 1 (1.35%) HNC
6 1 (1.35%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.92%) QA
2 4 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (9.46%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) iptables
2 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (10.81%) Grafana
1 8 (10.81%) Prometheus
2 4 (5.41%) Iperf
2 4 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.05%) Ansible
4 2 (2.70%) Opsgenie
5 1 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (1.35%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.35%) Kibana
5 1 (1.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (8.11%) SAP
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.70%) PagerDuty
3 2 (2.70%) Splunk
4 1 (1.35%) Adobe
4 1 (1.35%) Databricks
4 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.35%) EMC
4 1 (1.35%) NEC
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle
4 1 (1.35%) Qualtrics
4 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.35%) Spotify