Test Engineer Contracts in the South West

Test Engineer
England > South West

The median Test Engineer daily rate in the South West is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 122 121
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 37 37 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.12% 1.09% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.18% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 28 39
10th Percentile £375 £364 £384
25th Percentile £461 £422 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.67% -1.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £539 £501
90th Percentile £625 £575 £563
England median daily rate £450 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -13.46% +9.47% +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.00 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £60.00
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £44.78 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -14.71% - +17.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 3,056 3,142 3,474
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 92.74% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,896 2,308 2,517
10th Percentile £216 £284 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £620 £644 £600
90th Percentile £700 £721 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 252 212
10th Percentile £13.85 £17.70 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £48.68 £18.49
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.23 £47.64
Median % change year-on-year -13.02% +32.74% +10.78%
75th Percentile £71.25 £75.13 £63.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.40 £68.29
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the South West

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in the South West

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in the South West

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in the South West

Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Engineer in the South West

Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Wiltshire +2 17 £538 +13.16% 5
Bristol 0 10 £580 +10.48% 5
Gloucestershire +1 6 £600 +35.21% 12
Devon -2 2 £425 +70.00% 1
Somerset -2 1 £600 +14.29% 7
Dorset - 1 £600 - 1
Test Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 South West region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (56.76%) Agile
2 17 (45.95%) JIRA
2 17 (45.95%) Security Cleared
2 17 (45.95%) Social Skills
3 16 (43.24%) SQL
4 15 (40.54%) Test Scripting
5 14 (37.84%) Test Automation
5 14 (37.84%) Windows
6 13 (35.14%) SC Cleared
6 13 (35.14%) Confluence
7 12 (32.43%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (29.73%) Military
9 9 (24.32%) VMware
9 9 (24.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (24.32%) PKI
9 9 (24.32%) MCSE
9 9 (24.32%) MCSA
9 9 (24.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (24.32%) DHCP
9 9 (24.32%) Microsoft
9 9 (24.32%) Active Directory
9 9 (24.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (24.32%) Regression Testing
9 9 (24.32%) DNS
9 9 (24.32%) Windows Server
9 9 (24.32%) Test Strategy
9 9 (24.32%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (24.32%) Performance Testing
9 9 (24.32%) VMware Infrastructure
9 9 (24.32%) Critical Thinking

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

Application Platforms
1 13 (35.14%) Confluence
2 9 (24.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) Azure
1 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (5.41%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (24.32%) DHCP
1 9 (24.32%) DNS
2 4 (10.81%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.70%) 4G
3 1 (2.70%) 5G
3 1 (2.70%) Broadband
3 1 (2.70%) HbbTV
3 1 (2.70%) Network Security
3 1 (2.70%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 17 (45.95%) JIRA
2 7 (18.92%) Postman
3 6 (16.22%) Git
3 6 (16.22%) NUnit
3 6 (16.22%) Visual Studio
4 4 (10.81%) Bitbucket
4 4 (10.81%) Selenium
5 3 (8.11%) Cypress.io
6 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
6 2 (5.41%) JUnit
7 1 (2.70%) JMeter
7 1 (2.70%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (2.70%) LabVIEW
7 1 (2.70%) LoadRunner
7 1 (2.70%) SpecFlow
General
1 17 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 12 (32.43%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (29.73%) Military
4 6 (16.22%) Aerospace
5 4 (10.81%) Automotive
6 3 (8.11%) Aviation
7 2 (5.41%) Finance
7 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.70%) Banking
8 1 (2.70%) Electronics
8 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.70%) Marketing
8 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) .NET
1 6 (16.22%) AngularJS
2 5 (13.51%) GraphQL
2 5 (13.51%) Playwright
3 1 (2.70%) Middleware
3 1 (2.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) PKI
2 3 (8.11%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.70%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 14 (37.84%) Windows
2 9 (24.32%) Windows Server
2 9 (24.32%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (13.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) Agile
2 15 (40.54%) Test Scripting
3 14 (37.84%) Test Automation
4 9 (24.32%) Critical Thinking
4 9 (24.32%) Performance Testing
4 9 (24.32%) Regression Testing
4 9 (24.32%) Test Strategy
5 8 (21.62%) Non-Functional Testing
6 7 (18.92%) BDD
6 7 (18.92%) DevOps
6 7 (18.92%) Manual Testing
6 7 (18.92%) TDD
7 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
7 6 (16.22%) Customer Requirements
7 6 (16.22%) Kanban
7 6 (16.22%) Scrum
7 6 (16.22%) Waterfall
8 5 (13.51%) Load Testing
8 5 (13.51%) Security Testing
8 5 (13.51%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (43.24%) SQL
2 7 (18.92%) Python
3 6 (16.22%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.81%) Bash
4 4 (10.81%) C
4 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.81%) PowerShell
5 3 (8.11%) C++
6 1 (2.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (45.95%) Security Cleared
2 13 (35.14%) SC Cleared
3 9 (24.32%) MCSA
3 9 (24.32%) MCSE
3 9 (24.32%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (24.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (10.81%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.41%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) PMO
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 9 (24.32%) Active Directory
1 9 (24.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (13.51%) Docker
3 4 (10.81%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (10.81%) VMware NSX
3 4 (10.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Ansible
1 4 (10.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (24.32%) Microsoft
1 9 (24.32%) VMware
2 4 (10.81%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.41%) SAP
4 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace