Test Automation Contracts in Belfast

Automated Testing
County Antrim > Belfast

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 24 17
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 +7
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 2 4 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 1.72% 2.48% 8.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 3.10% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £475
25th Percentile - - £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £500
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - - £550
County Antrim median daily rate - - £500

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84 129 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 72.41% 80.12% 85.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 68 83
10th Percentile £212 £164 £146
25th Percentile £352 £256 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £419 £445
Median % change year-on-year +20.90% -5.90% +8.21%
75th Percentile £594 £520 £500
90th Percentile £675 £638 £550
County Antrim median daily rate £506 £419 £445
% change year-on-year +20.90% -5.90% +8.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 6
10th Percentile - £13.40 £10.06
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.91 £10.22
Median hourly rate £12.62 £15.25 £11.36
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +34.24% -15.85%
75th Percentile £14.78 £16.78 £16.40
90th Percentile £19.19 £18.12 £20.93
County Antrim median hourly rate £14.19 £15.25 £17.37
% change year-on-year -6.98% -12.20% +38.96%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Belfast

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Belfast.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Belfast

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) NUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation Tester
1 2 (100.00%) QA Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) QA