Test Engineer Contracts in the North West

Test Engineer
England > North West

The median Test Engineer daily rate in the North West is £450 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 102 131 147
Rank change year-on-year +29 +16 -35
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 36 24 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.34% 0.77% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% 0.81% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 22
10th Percentile £368 £313 £406
25th Percentile £409 £391 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +7.95%
75th Percentile £481 £550 £500
90th Percentile £490 £625 -
England median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +18.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35.75 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 - £41.62
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
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 West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,533 2,948 3,886
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 94.91% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,645 2,094 2,832
10th Percentile £275 £300 £213
25th Percentile £388 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £569
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 128 176
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.72 £11.56
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.88 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.88% +32.84% +36.63%
75th Percentile £46.91 £49.61 £50.01
90th Percentile £69.14 £66.00 £75.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the North West

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in the North West

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in the North West

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in the North West

Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Test Engineer in the North West

Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +30 27 £450 -5.26% 6
Cheshire +12 7 - - 7
Lancashire +5 1 - - 3
Test Engineer
England

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

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 West region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (61.11%) Test Automation
2 15 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (36.11%) Agile
4 11 (30.56%) Accessibility
5 10 (27.78%) Java
6 9 (25.00%) AWS
7 7 (19.44%) Cucumber
7 7 (19.44%) C#
7 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
8 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (16.67%) API Testing
8 6 (16.67%) Exploratory Testing
8 6 (16.67%) Load Testing
8 6 (16.67%) Security Testing
8 6 (16.67%) Selenium
8 6 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (13.89%) Manual Testing
9 5 (13.89%) Software Testing
9 5 (13.89%) Customer Experience
9 5 (13.89%) DevOps
9 5 (13.89%) Non-Functional Testing
10 4 (11.11%) Test Strategy
10 4 (11.11%) Microservices
10 4 (11.11%) Playwright
10 4 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
10 4 (11.11%) Active Listening
10 4 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
10 4 (11.11%) QA

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.78%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.56%) Azure
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.78%) BrowserStack
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Serverless
4 1 (2.78%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 3 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Cucumber
1 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
2 6 (16.67%) Selenium
3 4 (11.11%) Cypress.io
4 3 (8.33%) Gatling
4 3 (8.33%) JMeter
4 3 (8.33%) Postman
4 3 (8.33%) TestCafe
4 3 (8.33%) WebDriver
5 2 (5.56%) Git
5 2 (5.56%) GitLab
5 2 (5.56%) JIRA
5 2 (5.56%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.78%) GoCD
6 1 (2.78%) NeoLoad
6 1 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (2.78%) Pa11y
6 1 (2.78%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (2.78%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.56%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) Playwright
1 4 (11.11%) RESTful
2 2 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (5.56%) Kafka
2 2 (5.56%) Node.js
2 2 (5.56%) React
2 2 (5.56%) Web Services
3 1 (2.78%) .NET
3 1 (2.78%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.78%) CSS
3 1 (2.78%) Puppeteer
3 1 (2.78%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.56%) Life Science
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Mac OS X
1 2 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) Test Automation
2 15 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (36.11%) Agile
4 6 (16.67%) API Testing
4 6 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (16.67%) Exploratory Testing
4 6 (16.67%) Load Testing
4 6 (16.67%) Security Testing
5 5 (13.89%) Customer Experience
5 5 (13.89%) DevOps
5 5 (13.89%) Manual Testing
5 5 (13.89%) Non-Functional Testing
5 5 (13.89%) Software Testing
6 4 (11.11%) Active Listening
6 4 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
6 4 (11.11%) E-Commerce
6 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (11.11%) Test Scripting
6 4 (11.11%) Test Strategy
6 4 (11.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.78%) Java
2 7 (19.44%) C#
3 3 (8.33%) SQL
4 2 (5.56%) Groovy
4 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.56%) Scala
4 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.78%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.78%) PHP
5 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.78%) Python
5 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (30.56%) Accessibility
2 4 (11.11%) QA
3 2 (5.56%) GAMP
3 2 (5.56%) GxP
3 2 (5.56%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Kibana
2 2 (5.56%) Grafana
3 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
1 1 (2.78%) Salesforce