Test Engineer Contracts in England

Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Test Engineer daily rate in England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 381 429
Rank change year-on-year +89 +48 -66
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 260 272 400
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.70% 0.57% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.60% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 187 249
10th Percentile £300 £360 £325
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +18.60%
75th Percentile £538 £666 £556
90th Percentile £590 £738 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 21
10th Percentile £26.88 £48.75 £31.25
25th Percentile £35.75 £51.25 £37.50
Median hourly rate £44.78 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £61.63 £58.13 £56.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate £43.64 £52.50 £47.93
% change year-on-year -16.88% +9.55% +6.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,255 45,148 67,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,555 32,138 48,275
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 1,311 1,778
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.54
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in England

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in England

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in England

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in England

Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Engineer in England

Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
London +58 76 £438 -27.08% 25
South East +34 58 £426 -14.75% 48
North of England +30 47 £450 -10.00% 23
South West +8 36 £538 +16.22% 29
North West +26 32 £450 -5.26% 18
East of England +12 20 £435 -9.38% 21
Midlands +31 18 £255 -36.25% 36
East Midlands +21 17 £255 -32.00% 10
Yorkshire +21 15 £425 -15.00% 4
West Midlands +12 1 £525 +16.67% 26
North East +4 1 - - 1
Test Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 England region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 118 (45.38%) Test Automation
2 89 (34.23%) Agile
3 73 (28.08%) JIRA
4 69 (26.54%) Security Cleared
5 62 (23.85%) Test Scripting
6 58 (22.31%) SC Cleared
7 57 (21.92%) Social Skills
8 53 (20.38%) Software Testing
9 52 (20.00%) Java
10 49 (18.85%) SQL
11 46 (17.69%) Python
12 41 (15.77%) Selenium
13 38 (14.62%) Confluence
14 37 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
15 33 (12.69%) CI/CD
15 33 (12.69%) Regression Testing
16 32 (12.31%) Scrum
16 32 (12.31%) QA
16 32 (12.31%) Performance Testing
17 31 (11.92%) Degree
17 31 (11.92%) Test Strategy
18 30 (11.54%) Windows
19 29 (11.15%) AWS
20 28 (10.77%) JMeter
21 27 (10.38%) DevOps
22 26 (10.00%) Microsoft
23 25 (9.62%) TDD
24 23 (8.85%) Manual Testing
24 23 (8.85%) Military
24 23 (8.85%) Jenkins

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

Application Platforms
1 38 (14.62%) Confluence
2 18 (6.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.31%) Apache
3 6 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.38%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) MTS
4 1 (0.38%) nginx
4 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.38%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.38%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.38%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 29 (11.15%) AWS
2 19 (7.31%) Azure
3 13 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (1.92%) GitHub
5 4 (1.54%) BrowserStack
6 3 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.15%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.15%) Serverless
7 2 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.77%) GCP
7 2 (0.77%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (0.77%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.38%) SpeedCurve
8 1 (0.38%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.69%) DHCP
1 20 (7.69%) DNS
2 15 (5.77%) Wireless
3 12 (4.62%) BGP
3 12 (4.62%) MPLS
4 11 (4.23%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.69%) VPN
6 6 (2.31%) Ethernet VPN
6 6 (2.31%) Radio Access Network
7 5 (1.92%) 5G
8 4 (1.54%) HTTP
8 4 (1.54%) VLAN
9 3 (1.15%) 4G
9 3 (1.15%) SNMP
9 3 (1.15%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.77%) Broadband
10 2 (0.77%) HbbTV
10 2 (0.77%) Software-Defined Radio
10 2 (0.77%) tcpdump
11 1 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.62%) MongoDB
2 7 (2.69%) NoSQL
2 7 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.15%) Power BI
4 2 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.38%) Big Data
5 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.38%) HDInsight
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 73 (28.08%) JIRA
2 41 (15.77%) Selenium
3 28 (10.77%) JMeter
4 23 (8.85%) Jenkins
5 20 (7.69%) Postman
6 18 (6.92%) Cypress.io
6 18 (6.92%) Git
7 16 (6.15%) Cucumber
8 11 (4.23%) GitLab
8 11 (4.23%) JUnit
8 11 (4.23%) TestRail
9 9 (3.46%) NUnit
10 8 (3.08%) Gatling
10 8 (3.08%) Robot Framework
10 8 (3.08%) Visual Studio
11 7 (2.69%) WebDriver
12 6 (2.31%) Bitbucket
12 6 (2.31%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.92%) SpecFlow
14 4 (1.54%) LabVIEW
General
1 57 (21.92%) Social Skills
2 37 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (8.85%) Military
4 20 (7.69%) Telecoms
5 19 (7.31%) Public Sector
6 18 (6.92%) Finance
7 11 (4.23%) Aerospace
8 10 (3.85%) Automotive
8 10 (3.85%) Manufacturing
9 8 (3.08%) Electronics
10 7 (2.69%) Marketing
11 5 (1.92%) Banking
11 5 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.54%) Aviation
12 4 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.54%) Retail
13 2 (0.77%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.38%) Back Office
14 1 (0.38%) Front Office
14 1 (0.38%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.62%) Playwright
2 11 (4.23%) .NET
3 10 (3.85%) AngularJS
3 10 (3.85%) Gherkin
4 8 (3.08%) REST
5 7 (2.69%) GraphQL
5 7 (2.69%) SOAP
6 6 (2.31%) NETCONF
6 6 (2.31%) RESTCONF
6 6 (2.31%) YANG
7 5 (1.92%) Kafka
7 5 (1.92%) LDAP
7 5 (1.92%) Node.js
7 5 (1.92%) Web Services
8 4 (1.54%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (1.15%) CSS
9 3 (1.15%) RESTful
9 3 (1.15%) WebdriverIO
10 2 (0.77%) Jest
10 2 (0.77%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.31%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (6.92%) PKI
3 9 (3.46%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.31%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.92%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.54%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.77%) Life Science
8 1 (0.38%) Derivative
8 1 (0.38%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.38%) GNSS
8 1 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.38%) Machine to Machine
8 1 (0.38%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.38%) MPEG
8 1 (0.38%) STB
8 1 (0.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.38%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.38%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.54%) Windows
2 21 (8.08%) Linux
3 18 (6.92%) Windows Server
3 18 (6.92%) Windows Server 2012
4 14 (5.38%) Unix
5 4 (1.54%) Mac OS X
6 3 (1.15%) Android
7 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.38%) CentOS
7 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (45.38%) Test Automation
2 89 (34.23%) Agile
3 62 (23.85%) Test Scripting
4 53 (20.38%) Software Testing
5 33 (12.69%) CI/CD
5 33 (12.69%) Regression Testing
6 32 (12.31%) Performance Testing
6 32 (12.31%) Scrum
7 31 (11.92%) Test Strategy
8 27 (10.38%) DevOps
9 25 (9.62%) TDD
10 23 (8.85%) Manual Testing
11 21 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (7.69%) BDD
12 20 (7.69%) Unit Testing
13 19 (7.31%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (7.31%) Security Testing
13 19 (7.31%) Validation
14 18 (6.92%) Critical Thinking
14 18 (6.92%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 52 (20.00%) Java
2 49 (18.85%) SQL
3 46 (17.69%) Python
4 20 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 18 (6.92%) C#
6 16 (6.15%) Shell Script
7 14 (5.38%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.69%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.31%) Bash
9 6 (2.31%) C++
10 5 (1.92%) C
11 4 (1.54%) Groovy
11 4 (1.54%) Scala
12 2 (0.77%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.77%) Perl
12 2 (0.77%) Ruby
13 1 (0.38%) Go
13 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 69 (26.54%) Security Cleared
2 58 (22.31%) SC Cleared
3 31 (11.92%) Degree
4 19 (7.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (6.92%) MCSA
5 18 (6.92%) MCSE
5 18 (6.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 14 (5.38%) ISTQB
7 12 (4.62%) NVQ Level 3
8 8 (3.08%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.92%) HNC
10 4 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 4 (1.54%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.15%) ISEB
12 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.38%) EMC Certification
12 1 (0.38%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (12.31%) QA
2 22 (8.46%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.15%) WCAG
4 2 (0.77%) Def Stans
4 2 (0.77%) GAMP
4 2 (0.77%) GxP
4 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (8.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (7.69%) Docker
3 18 (6.92%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.54%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.54%) vSphere
5 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.38%) iptables
Systems Management
1 10 (3.85%) Grafana
2 8 (3.08%) Prometheus
3 7 (2.69%) Ansible
3 7 (2.69%) Terraform
4 5 (1.92%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.54%) Iperf
5 4 (1.54%) Kibana
6 2 (0.77%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.77%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 26 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.08%) VMware
3 7 (2.69%) SAP
4 6 (2.31%) Juniper
5 4 (1.54%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.15%) Oracle
7 2 (0.77%) Google
7 2 (0.77%) HP
7 2 (0.77%) PagerDuty
7 2 (0.77%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.77%) Siemens
7 2 (0.77%) Splunk
8 1 (0.38%) Adobe
8 1 (0.38%) Databricks
8 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.38%) EMC
8 1 (0.38%) NEC
8 1 (0.38%) Pega
8 1 (0.38%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.38%) Spotify