Test Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Test Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Test Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £425, 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 93 106 140
Rank change year-on-year +13 +34 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 14 15 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.81% 0.70% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.73% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 4
10th Percentile £382 £373 -
25th Percentile £400 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +14.46%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £488
90th Percentile - £575 -
England median daily rate £450 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -13.46% +9.47% +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.50 -
England median hourly rate £44.78 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -14.71% - +17.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,567 2,058 2,572
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 95.94% 96.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 1,399 1,889
10th Percentile £234 £225 £210
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £616 £563
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 30 90
10th Percentile £11.30 £12.00 £10.98
25th Percentile £12.53 £16.75 £12.47
Median hourly rate £17.50 £21.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +15.07% -1.35%
75th Percentile £25.83 £43.38 £22.39
90th Percentile £53.75 £56.78 £26.55
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire +33 11 £550 +10.00% 4
South Yorkshire -14 3 £425 -15.00% 1
Test Engineer
England

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

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 Yorkshire region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (85.71%) Java
2 10 (71.43%) Agile
2 10 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 9 (64.29%) TDD
3 9 (64.29%) Test Scripting
4 8 (57.14%) Finance
4 8 (57.14%) Acceptance Criteria
5 7 (50.00%) User Stories
5 7 (50.00%) Test Strategy
5 7 (50.00%) Scrum
5 7 (50.00%) JUnit
5 7 (50.00%) Software Testing
5 7 (50.00%) QA
6 6 (42.86%) Selenium
6 6 (42.86%) Unit Testing
6 6 (42.86%) Gherkin
6 6 (42.86%) System Testing
6 6 (42.86%) Kanban
6 6 (42.86%) Software Delivery
6 6 (42.86%) Product Ownership
7 5 (35.71%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (35.71%) API Testing
7 5 (35.71%) Analytics
7 5 (35.71%) JMeter
8 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
8 3 (21.43%) JIRA
8 3 (21.43%) Cucumber
8 3 (21.43%) BDD
8 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
8 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DHCP
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) JUnit
2 6 (42.86%) Selenium
3 5 (35.71%) JMeter
4 3 (21.43%) Cucumber
4 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
4 3 (21.43%) JIRA
5 2 (14.29%) Gatling
5 2 (14.29%) Git
5 2 (14.29%) REST Assured
5 2 (14.29%) WebDriver
6 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (7.14%) TestNG
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Gherkin
2 2 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (14.29%) Kafka
2 2 (14.29%) Web Services
3 1 (7.14%) pytest
3 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Mac OS X
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile
1 10 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 9 (64.29%) TDD
2 9 (64.29%) Test Scripting
3 8 (57.14%) Acceptance Criteria
4 7 (50.00%) Scrum
4 7 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 7 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 7 (50.00%) User Stories
5 6 (42.86%) Kanban
5 6 (42.86%) Software Delivery
5 6 (42.86%) System Testing
5 6 (42.86%) Unit Testing
6 5 (35.71%) Analytics
6 5 (35.71%) API Testing
6 5 (35.71%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (21.43%) BDD
8 2 (14.29%) Cross-Browser Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (14.29%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) Groovy
2 2 (14.29%) Scala
2 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) VMware