Test Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Test Engineer
England > North of England

The median Test Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 169 201
Rank change year-on-year +35 +32 -66
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 50 49 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.07% 0.86% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 0.90% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 36 28
10th Percentile £376 £313 £409
25th Percentile £400 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £478 £565 £500
90th Percentile £523 £625 -
England median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +18.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35.75 £18.25 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £20.50 £41.62
Median % change year-on-year +107.32% -50.74% -9.71%
75th Percentile £61.25 £22.75 -
90th Percentile £65.83 - -
England median hourly rate £44.78 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -14.71% - +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,358 5,416 6,892
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 95.40% 96.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,723 3,814 5,056
10th Percentile £263 £280 £200
25th Percentile £386 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £582 £599 £556
90th Percentile £674 £680 £639
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 158 289
10th Percentile £11.06 £14.25 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.74 £30.65 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.33% +61.30% +6.15%
75th Percentile £46.18 £50.06 £34.52
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.21 £58.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.23% +94.63% +4.55%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the North of England

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in the North of England

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in the North of England

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in the North of England

Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Engineer in the North of England

Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 11 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
North West +29 36 £450 -5.26% 18
Yorkshire +17 14 £425 -15.00% 7
North East +6 1 - -
Test Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 North of England region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (62.00%) Test Automation
2 21 (42.00%) Java
2 21 (42.00%) Agile
3 15 (30.00%) Accessibility
3 15 (30.00%) Selenium
3 15 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (24.00%) Test Scripting
5 11 (22.00%) AWS
6 10 (20.00%) Cucumber
6 10 (20.00%) Jenkins
6 10 (20.00%) JMeter
7 9 (18.00%) C#
7 9 (18.00%) Software Testing
7 9 (18.00%) API Testing
7 9 (18.00%) Test Strategy
8 8 (16.00%) TDD
8 8 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (16.00%) QA
9 7 (14.00%) Manual Testing
9 7 (14.00%) User Stories
9 7 (14.00%) Acceptance Criteria
10 6 (12.00%) Exploratory Testing
10 6 (12.00%) Product Ownership
10 6 (12.00%) DevOps
10 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (12.00%) BDD
10 6 (12.00%) WebDriver
10 6 (12.00%) Load Testing
10 6 (12.00%) Security Testing
10 6 (12.00%) Finance

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.00%) AWS
2 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.00%) Azure
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.00%) BrowserStack
4 1 (2.00%) GitHub
4 1 (2.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Serverless
4 1 (2.00%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) HTTP
2 2 (4.00%) DHCP
2 2 (4.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (30.00%) Selenium
2 10 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 10 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (20.00%) JMeter
3 6 (12.00%) WebDriver
4 5 (10.00%) Gatling
4 5 (10.00%) JIRA
5 4 (8.00%) Cypress.io
5 4 (8.00%) Git
5 4 (8.00%) JUnit
6 3 (6.00%) Postman
6 3 (6.00%) TestCafe
7 2 (4.00%) GitLab
7 2 (4.00%) REST Assured
7 2 (4.00%) SpecFlow
8 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (2.00%) GoCD
8 1 (2.00%) NeoLoad
8 1 (2.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (12.00%) Finance
2 4 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) RESTful
2 4 (8.00%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (8.00%) Kafka
2 4 (8.00%) Playwright
2 4 (8.00%) Web Services
3 3 (6.00%) Gherkin
4 2 (4.00%) Node.js
4 2 (4.00%) React
5 1 (2.00%) .NET
5 1 (2.00%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.00%) CSS
5 1 (2.00%) Puppeteer
5 1 (2.00%) pytest
5 1 (2.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.00%) Life Science
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Mac OS X
1 4 (8.00%) Unix
2 2 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (62.00%) Test Automation
2 21 (42.00%) Agile
3 15 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (24.00%) Test Scripting
5 9 (18.00%) API Testing
5 9 (18.00%) Software Testing
5 9 (18.00%) Test Strategy
6 8 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (16.00%) TDD
7 7 (14.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 7 (14.00%) Manual Testing
7 7 (14.00%) User Stories
8 6 (12.00%) BDD
8 6 (12.00%) DevOps
8 6 (12.00%) Exploratory Testing
8 6 (12.00%) Load Testing
8 6 (12.00%) Security Testing
9 5 (10.00%) Analytics
9 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (42.00%) Java
2 9 (18.00%) C#
3 4 (8.00%) Groovy
3 4 (8.00%) Scala
3 4 (8.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.00%) SQL
5 2 (4.00%) Python
6 1 (2.00%) MATLAB
6 1 (2.00%) PHP
6 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (30.00%) Accessibility
2 8 (16.00%) QA
3 4 (8.00%) WCAG
4 2 (4.00%) GAMP
4 2 (4.00%) GxP
4 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.00%) Kibana
2 2 (4.00%) Grafana
2 2 (4.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.00%) VMware
3 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.00%) Wind River