Software Test Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software Test Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Test Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £500 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 345 447 611
Rank change year-on-year +102 +164 -126
Contract jobs requiring a Software Test Engineer 3 14 17
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.058% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.061% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 12
10th Percentile £364 £225 £379
25th Percentile £415 £300 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £325 £438
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -25.71% +20.69%
75th Percentile £623 £338 £481
90th Percentile £696 £360 £486
UK median daily rate £408 £325 £450
% change year-on-year +25.38% -27.78% +24.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -20.35%
75th Percentile - £56.88 £47.50
90th Percentile - £58.75 -
UK median hourly rate £60.72 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +15.66% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,691 22,958 42,210
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.26% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,251 16,282 30,640
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £444 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +2.67% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 531 565
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.84 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +43.84% +57.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.72 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Software Test Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Software Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Software Test Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Test Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Test Engineer.

Software Test Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Test Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Software Test Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Test Engineer.

Software Test Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Software 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Software Test Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (33.33%) SDET
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Validation

Software Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) SDET
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
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