Test Automation Contracts in the East of England

Automated Testing
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 47 81
Rank change year-on-year -28 +34 -29
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 38 90 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.00% 4.33% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 4.97% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 51 38
10th Percentile £445 £363 £400
25th Percentile £473 £425 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £535 £575 £575
90th Percentile £570 £700 £602
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +15.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 4
10th Percentile £52.50 £37.94 £44.08
25th Percentile £55.63 £43.59 £46.44
Median hourly rate £90.00 £62.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% +28.87% +46.97%
75th Percentile - £77.00 £49.31
90th Percentile - £90.00 £49.43
England median hourly rate £60.00 £61.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,633 1,810 2,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 86.13% 87.14% 88.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 706 1,068 1,270
10th Percentile £207 £200 £185
25th Percentile £336 £313 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 599 344 388
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £23.31 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.67% +50.39% -11.93%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £39.51
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the East of England

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in the East of England

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in the East of England

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in the East of England

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Automation in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Automation in the East of England

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Cambridgeshire -10 19 £498 +4.74% 43
Hertfordshire -16 12 £475 -26.92% 19
Essex +1 4 £493 -8.63% 17
Bedfordshire -12 2 £550 +10.00%
Suffolk +7 1 £641 -13.80% 1
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (15.79%) Alfresco
1 6 (15.79%) Appian
1 6 (15.79%) Camunda
Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Simulink
1 5 (13.16%) Stateflow
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Loan IQ
1 1 (2.63%) SAP ERP
1 1 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.53%) GCP
1 4 (10.53%) GitHub
2 2 (5.26%) AWS
3 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.63%) Azure
3 1 (2.63%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) DNS
1 1 (2.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.63%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (34.21%) Git
2 10 (26.32%) Rational DOORS
3 7 (18.42%) Mercurial
4 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.26%) JIRA
6 1 (2.63%) ClearCase
6 1 (2.63%) Gerrit
6 1 (2.63%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (2.63%) TestRail
General
1 7 (18.42%) Multimedia
2 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Automotive
4 4 (10.53%) Legal
4 4 (10.53%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.63%) Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Retail
5 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (57.89%) Software Engineer
2 11 (28.95%) Embedded Engineer
2 11 (28.95%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 10 (26.32%) C Software Engineer
3 10 (26.32%) Embedded C Engineer
3 10 (26.32%) Embedded C Software Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Software Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (7.89%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 3 (7.89%) Lead
5 3 (7.89%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) GCP Developer
6 2 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) GCP Software Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Java Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Python Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.95%) React
2 7 (18.42%) NumPy
2 7 (18.42%) Pandas
2 7 (18.42%) SciPy
3 6 (15.79%) Drools
3 6 (15.79%) jBPM
3 6 (15.79%) JSON
4 1 (2.63%) RESTful
4 1 (2.63%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (13.16%) Algorithms
2 5 (13.16%) Low-Code
2 5 (13.16%) Social Media
3 1 (2.63%) FMCG
3 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (68.42%) Software Engineering
2 15 (39.47%) Validation
3 14 (36.84%) Verification and Validation
4 12 (31.58%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (28.95%) Computer Science
5 11 (28.95%) Test Scripting
6 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (18.42%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (18.42%) Code Quality
7 7 (18.42%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (18.42%) Data Collection
7 7 (18.42%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (18.42%) Machine Learning
7 7 (18.42%) Signal Processing
8 6 (15.79%) BPMN
8 6 (15.79%) Workflow
9 5 (13.16%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
10 4 (10.53%) Clean Code
10 4 (10.53%) E-Commerce
10 4 (10.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.95%) JavaScript
2 10 (26.32%) C
2 10 (26.32%) Embedded C
3 9 (23.68%) Python
4 8 (21.05%) C++
4 8 (21.05%) Embedded C++
4 8 (21.05%) Java
5 7 (18.42%) C#
6 5 (13.16%) Bash
6 5 (13.16%) MATLAB
7 4 (10.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Degree
2 6 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) zsh
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Ansible
1 1 (2.63%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Pega
2 4 (10.53%) Google
3 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.63%) Databricks
4 1 (2.63%) MathWorks
4 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.63%) SAP