Senior Test Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Test Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Test Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 427 488
Rank change year-on-year +85 +61 -60
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 43 17 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.074% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.078% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 11 13
10th Percentile £397 £463 £363
25th Percentile £413 £490 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £381
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +44.36% -10.35%
75th Percentile £593 £575 £550
90th Percentile £625 £609 £571
UK median daily rate £463 £533 £440
% change year-on-year -13.15% +21.02% -0.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £59.50 - -
25th Percentile £60.63 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile £64.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,772 21,693 29,145
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.28% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,127 20,437
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,104 1,447
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.07 £14.29
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.85
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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 of England +48 20 £438 -7.89% 6
North West +33 15 £450 -8.86% 4
South West +16 15 £595 +8.18% 2
South East +38 8 - - 8
Yorkshire +18 5 £400 -13.51% 2
Senior Test Engineer
UK

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Senior 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Test Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (46.51%) Test Automation
2 19 (44.19%) Agile
2 19 (44.19%) JIRA
3 15 (34.88%) Accessibility
4 14 (32.56%) Non-Functional Testing
5 13 (30.23%) Test Strategy
6 12 (27.91%) Manual Testing
6 12 (27.91%) Java
7 11 (25.58%) TDD
7 11 (25.58%) BDD
7 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
7 11 (25.58%) AWS
8 10 (23.26%) Git
8 10 (23.26%) Jenkins
8 10 (23.26%) Selenium
8 10 (23.26%) Performance Testing
8 10 (23.26%) Load Testing
8 10 (23.26%) Security Testing
9 9 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (20.93%) DevOps
10 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
10 8 (18.60%) Postman
10 8 (18.60%) Social Skills
11 7 (16.28%) Customer Requirements
11 7 (16.28%) TypeScript
11 7 (16.28%) Cucumber
11 7 (16.28%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (16.28%) Test Management
11 7 (16.28%) Python
11 7 (16.28%) JMeter

Senior Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (9.30%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) MTS
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.58%) AWS
2 5 (11.63%) Azure
2 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.33%) BrowserStack
3 1 (2.33%) GitHub
3 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.33%) Serverless
3 1 (2.33%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) BGP
1 6 (13.95%) MPLS
2 4 (9.30%) HTTP
2 4 (9.30%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.33%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (44.19%) JIRA
2 10 (23.26%) Git
2 10 (23.26%) Jenkins
2 10 (23.26%) Selenium
3 8 (18.60%) Postman
4 7 (16.28%) Cucumber
4 7 (16.28%) JMeter
5 6 (13.95%) NUnit
5 6 (13.95%) Visual Studio
6 5 (11.63%) Bitbucket
6 5 (11.63%) Gatling
7 4 (9.30%) WebDriver
8 3 (6.98%) Cypress.io
9 2 (4.65%) JUnit
9 2 (4.65%) TestCafe
10 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (2.33%) GitLab
10 1 (2.33%) GoCD
10 1 (2.33%) LabVIEW
10 1 (2.33%) Pa11y
General
1 8 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.65%) Electronics
3 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.33%) Finance
4 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.33%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.95%) .NET
1 6 (13.95%) AngularJS
1 6 (13.95%) Playwright
2 5 (11.63%) GraphQL
3 4 (9.30%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (9.30%) Kafka
3 4 (9.30%) Web Services
4 3 (6.98%) RESTful
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.65%) Algorithms
1 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) Linux
1 4 (9.30%) Mac OS X
1 4 (9.30%) Unix
1 4 (9.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (46.51%) Test Automation
2 19 (44.19%) Agile
3 14 (32.56%) Non-Functional Testing
4 13 (30.23%) Test Strategy
5 12 (27.91%) Manual Testing
6 11 (25.58%) BDD
6 11 (25.58%) TDD
7 10 (23.26%) Load Testing
7 10 (23.26%) Performance Testing
7 10 (23.26%) Security Testing
8 9 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (20.93%) DevOps
9 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
10 7 (16.28%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (16.28%) Customer Requirements
10 7 (16.28%) Scrum
10 7 (16.28%) Test Management
11 6 (13.95%) Kanban
11 6 (13.95%) Migration
11 6 (13.95%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.91%) Java
2 7 (16.28%) Python
2 7 (16.28%) TypeScript
3 6 (13.95%) SQL
4 4 (9.30%) Bash
4 4 (9.30%) C
4 4 (9.30%) Groovy
4 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.30%) PowerShell
4 4 (9.30%) Scala
4 4 (9.30%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.33%) C#
5 1 (2.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (34.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.65%) WCAG
3 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Docker
2 4 (9.30%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (9.30%) VMware NSX
2 4 (9.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Terraform
2 4 (9.30%) Ansible
3 3 (6.98%) Kibana
4 2 (4.65%) Grafana
5 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Juniper
2 4 (9.30%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.33%) SAP