Test Automation Contracts in the East Midlands

Automated Testing
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 53 51
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 18 34 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.30% 3.39% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 3.84% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 33 38
10th Percentile £314 £245 £338
25th Percentile £353 £313 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £380 £431
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -11.88% +13.49%
75th Percentile £451 £438 £500
90th Percentile £538 £680 £575
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 613 885 1,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.19% 88.24% 82.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 691 849
10th Percentile £200 £213 £200
25th Percentile £272 £345 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -13.47% +7.95% +11.39%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £520
90th Percentile £622 £700 £614
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 48 78
10th Percentile £11.33 £11.80 £9.74
25th Percentile £12.74 £16.34 £13.95
Median hourly rate £16.82 £22.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +13.75% +36.99%
75th Percentile £26.15 £51.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £35.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.46% +49.68% +10.96%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the East Midlands

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in the East Midlands

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in the East Midlands

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in the East Midlands

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 May 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
Leicestershire +8 10 £419 +10.26% 7
Northamptonshire +6 6 £400 +68.42% 2
Nottinghamshire -1 1 £375 -6.25% 8
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) JMeter
2 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 3 (16.67%) SoapUI
3 2 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 2 (11.11%) Zephyr
4 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.56%) Postman
4 1 (5.56%) Selenium
General
1 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Banking
2 1 (5.56%) Games
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Tester
2 7 (38.89%) Automation Tester
3 3 (16.67%) Performance Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Performance Test Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Functional Tester
5 1 (5.56%) QA Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) QA Automation Tester
5 1 (5.56%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) QA Tester
5 1 (5.56%) Test Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Test Leader
5 1 (5.56%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Web Services
2 3 (16.67%) SOAP
3 2 (11.11%) React
3 2 (11.11%) RESTful
3 2 (11.11%) XML
4 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.56%) CSS
4 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.56%) gRPC
4 1 (5.56%) HTML
4 1 (5.56%) JMS
4 1 (5.56%) Kafka
4 1 (5.56%) Next.js
4 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.56%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Functional Testing
2 6 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
2 6 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 6 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) End-to-End Testing
3 5 (27.78%) Exploratory Testing
3 5 (27.78%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Performance Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Software Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Biometrics
5 3 (16.67%) Data Design
5 3 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Scrum
5 3 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
5 3 (16.67%) Test Scripting
6 1 (5.56%) Roadmaps
6 1 (5.56%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
2 1 (5.56%) C#
2 1 (5.56%) Java
2 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (22.22%) ISEB
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) ISTQB
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 3 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle