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 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 44 45 57
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 -15
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 21 42 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.70% 4.03% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 4.58% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 40 39
10th Percentile £350 £231 £308
25th Percentile £355 £293 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £378 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.99% -5.63% +5.96%
75th Percentile £445 £438 £444
90th Percentile £538 £610 £575
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +14.21%

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 609 918 1,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.38% 88.10% 83.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 691 887
10th Percentile £200 £213 £209
25th Percentile £273 £333 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +2.27% +13.55%
75th Percentile £558 £565 £520
90th Percentile £625 £700 £606
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 73 83
10th Percentile £11.41 £11.98 £9.51
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.25 £13.32
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.75 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +1.35% +23.33%
75th Percentile £26.15 £32.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £45.79 £59.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

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 26 April 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 26 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
Leicestershire +11 11 £419 +10.26% 14
Northamptonshire +3 6 £400 +68.42% 4
Nottinghamshire 0 3 £440 +10.00% 4
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 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) JMeter
2 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 2 (9.52%) Cypress.io
3 2 (9.52%) JIRA
3 2 (9.52%) SoapUI
4 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.76%) JUnit
4 1 (4.76%) Postman
4 1 (4.76%) Selenium
4 1 (4.76%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Games
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Tester
3 5 (23.81%) Automation Tester
4 3 (14.29%) Performance Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Performance Test Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Angular Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) QA Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) QA Automation Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) QA Automation Tester
6 1 (4.76%) QA Test Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) QA Tester
6 1 (4.76%) React Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Test Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) React
2 2 (9.52%) RESTful
2 2 (9.52%) SOAP
3 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.76%) CSS
3 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.76%) gRPC
3 1 (4.76%) HTML
3 1 (4.76%) JMS
3 1 (4.76%) Kafka
3 1 (4.76%) Next.js
3 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.76%) RAML
3 1 (4.76%) Web Services
3 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Agile
2 7 (33.33%) DevOps
2 7 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 6 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 6 (28.57%) System Integration Testing
3 6 (28.57%) Test Scripting
3 6 (28.57%) Test Strategy
3 6 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (23.81%) End-to-End Testing
4 5 (23.81%) Exploratory Testing
4 5 (23.81%) Functional Testing
5 4 (19.05%) Performance Testing
5 4 (19.05%) Scrum
6 3 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (14.29%) Data Design
6 3 (14.29%) Pair Programming
6 3 (14.29%) Technical Debt
6 3 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
6 3 (14.29%) Traceability Matrix
6 3 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) TypeScript
2 3 (14.29%) C#
2 3 (14.29%) Java
2 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.52%) Python
4 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (19.05%) ISEB
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Data Quality
1 4 (19.05%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle