Automation Test Lead Contracts in England

Test Automation Leader
UK > England

The median Test Automation Leader daily rate in England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 622 745
Rank change year-on-year +96 +123 -135
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Test Lead 12 26 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.052% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.055% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 20 32
10th Percentile £370 £393 £413
25th Percentile £400 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.40% +17.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £591
90th Percentile £578 £689 £649
UK median daily rate £450 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% +21.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,178 47,326 67,913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,701 33,606 48,311
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,407 1,890
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Automation Test Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Automation Test Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Test Lead in England

Automation Test Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Test Lead in England

Automation Test Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Test Lead in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Test Lead in England

Automation Test Lead
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Test Lead within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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
London +86 7 £450 -25.00% 5
South West - 3 - -
North of England +26 1 - -
Yorkshire +21 1 - -
South East +21 1 - - 2
Automation Test Lead
UK

Automation Test Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Automation Test Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Automation Test Lead in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (66.67%) JIRA
3 5 (41.67%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Windows
4 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 4 (33.33%) Test Strategy
5 3 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (25.00%) Cypress.io
5 3 (25.00%) Azure
5 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (25.00%) Ansible
5 3 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
5 3 (25.00%) Terraform
5 3 (25.00%) Windows 2000
5 3 (25.00%) Windows XP
5 3 (25.00%) VMS
5 3 (25.00%) Juniper
5 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (25.00%) Firewall
5 3 (25.00%) Finance
5 3 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Unix
5 3 (25.00%) Fortinet
5 3 (25.00%) Selenium
5 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (25.00%) Git
6 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure

Automation Test Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Loan IQ
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) BrowserStack
2 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (8.33%) Datadog
3 1 (8.33%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) JIRA
2 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (25.00%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) Selenium
3 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (8.33%) Appium
4 1 (8.33%) GitLab
4 1 (8.33%) JMeter
4 1 (8.33%) NUnit
4 1 (8.33%) Postman
4 1 (8.33%) TestRail
4 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Electronics
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (8.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (8.33%) Playwright
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) SOAP
1 1 (8.33%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Unix
2 3 (25.00%) VMS
2 3 (25.00%) Windows 2000
2 3 (25.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Test Planning
6 1 (8.33%) BDD
6 1 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (8.33%) Non-Functional Testing
6 1 (8.33%) SDLC
6 1 (8.33%) User Stories
6 1 (8.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (16.67%) vSphere
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (25.00%) Juniper
2 2 (16.67%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce