Test Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Test Engineer
England > North of England

The median Test Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 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
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 163 206
Rank change year-on-year +29 +43 -55
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 46 46 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.95% 0.84% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 0.88% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 34 29
10th Percentile £380 £313 £399
25th Percentile £406 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £500 £565 £500
90th Percentile £575 £625 -
England median daily rate £450 £515 £475
% change year-on-year -12.62% +8.42% +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35.75 £18.25 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £20.50 £41.62
Median % change year-on-year +107.32% -50.74% -6.87%
75th Percentile £61.25 £22.75 -
90th Percentile £65.83 - -
England median hourly rate £44.78 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -14.71% - +17.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,500 5,202 6,871
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 95.33% 96.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,727 3,644 5,017
10th Percentile £263 £264 £206
25th Percentile £388 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £668 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 458 163 268
10th Percentile £11.12 £14.05 £11.28
25th Percentile £13.23 £17.60 £14.82
Median hourly rate £23.48 £27.20 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +36.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £47.88 £43.75 £33.96
90th Percentile £67.25 £58.90 £63.00
England median hourly rate £38.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -14.44% +87.50% +14.01%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the North of England

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in the North of England

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in the North of England

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in the North of England

Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Engineer in the North of England

Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 10 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
North West +24 32 £450 -5.26% 17
Yorkshire +10 14 £425 -15.00% 4
North East +4 1 - - 4
Test Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 North of England region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (65.22%) Test Automation
2 21 (45.65%) Agile
3 20 (43.48%) Java
4 13 (28.26%) Test Scripting
4 13 (28.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (26.09%) Selenium
6 11 (23.91%) TDD
6 11 (23.91%) Software Testing
6 11 (23.91%) QA
6 11 (23.91%) Test Strategy
6 11 (23.91%) Accessibility
7 9 (19.57%) Product Ownership
7 9 (19.57%) AWS
7 9 (19.57%) API Testing
8 8 (17.39%) Jenkins
8 8 (17.39%) Cucumber
8 8 (17.39%) C#
8 8 (17.39%) JMeter
8 8 (17.39%) Finance
8 8 (17.39%) Acceptance Criteria
9 7 (15.22%) JUnit
9 7 (15.22%) Scrum
9 7 (15.22%) Manual Testing
9 7 (15.22%) User Stories
9 7 (15.22%) Analytics
10 6 (13.04%) Software Delivery
10 6 (13.04%) System Testing
10 6 (13.04%) BDD
10 6 (13.04%) Gherkin
10 6 (13.04%) Continuous Integration

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

Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.17%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.57%) AWS
2 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.35%) Azure
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.17%) BrowserStack
4 1 (2.17%) GitHub
4 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Serverless
4 1 (2.17%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) HTTP
2 2 (4.35%) DHCP
2 2 (4.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (26.09%) Selenium
2 8 (17.39%) Cucumber
2 8 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 8 (17.39%) JMeter
3 7 (15.22%) JUnit
4 5 (10.87%) Gatling
4 5 (10.87%) JIRA
4 5 (10.87%) WebDriver
5 4 (8.70%) Cypress.io
5 4 (8.70%) Git
6 3 (6.52%) Postman
6 3 (6.52%) TestCafe
7 2 (4.35%) GitLab
7 2 (4.35%) REST Assured
7 2 (4.35%) SpecFlow
8 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.17%) NeoLoad
8 1 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (2.17%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (2.17%) TestNG
General
1 8 (17.39%) Finance
2 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.35%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) Gherkin
2 4 (8.70%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (8.70%) Kafka
2 4 (8.70%) Playwright
2 4 (8.70%) Web Services
3 3 (6.52%) RESTful
4 2 (4.35%) Node.js
4 2 (4.35%) React
5 1 (2.17%) .NET
5 1 (2.17%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.17%) CSS
5 1 (2.17%) Puppeteer
5 1 (2.17%) pytest
5 1 (2.17%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.35%) Life Science
4 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Mac OS X
1 4 (8.70%) Unix
2 2 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (65.22%) Test Automation
2 21 (45.65%) Agile
3 13 (28.26%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (28.26%) Test Scripting
4 11 (23.91%) Software Testing
4 11 (23.91%) TDD
4 11 (23.91%) Test Strategy
5 9 (19.57%) API Testing
6 8 (17.39%) Acceptance Criteria
7 7 (15.22%) Analytics
7 7 (15.22%) Manual Testing
7 7 (15.22%) Scrum
7 7 (15.22%) User Stories
8 6 (13.04%) BDD
8 6 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (13.04%) Kanban
8 6 (13.04%) Software Delivery
8 6 (13.04%) System Testing
8 6 (13.04%) Unit Testing
9 5 (10.87%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 20 (43.48%) Java
2 8 (17.39%) C#
3 4 (8.70%) Groovy
3 4 (8.70%) Scala
3 4 (8.70%) Shell Script
4 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.52%) SQL
5 2 (4.35%) Python
6 1 (2.17%) MATLAB
6 1 (2.17%) PHP
6 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.91%) Accessibility
1 11 (23.91%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) GAMP
2 2 (4.35%) GxP
2 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Kibana
2 2 (4.35%) Grafana
2 2 (4.35%) Terraform
3 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.35%) VMware
3 1 (2.17%) Salesforce