Test Automation Contracts in Birmingham

Automated Testing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 48 73
Rank change year-on-year -13 +25 -33
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 7 29 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.91% 3.23% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 3.66% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 18
10th Percentile £192 £263 £294
25th Percentile £201 £463 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% +21.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £388 £588 £573
90th Percentile £418 £743 £645
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £500 £437
% change year-on-year -15.00% +14.42% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £55.00 - £39.00
% change year-on-year - - -13.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 640 793 1,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.55% 88.31% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 530 881
10th Percentile £248 £263 £213
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £594
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £510 £488
% change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +17.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 24
10th Percentile £13.20 £11.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £13.94
Median hourly rate £27.25 £15.00 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +81.67% -12.99% -4.22%
75th Percentile £48.75 £26.50 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £71.25 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.83
% change year-on-year +26.98% +5.32% -1.03%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Birmingham

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Birmingham

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Birmingham over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Birmingham

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Test Assurance Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Test Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium Automation Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
2 1 (14.29%) UAT Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) UAT Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Playwright
1 1 (14.29%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) e-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Defect Management
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Project Management
2 3 (42.86%) Service Management
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Test Assurance
2 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
2 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) API Testing
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Supplier Management
3 1 (14.29%) System Testing
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) ISTQB
2 3 (42.86%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) HP
1 3 (42.86%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft