Automation Test Analyst Contracts in England

Test Automation Analyst
UK > England

The median Test Automation Analyst daily rate in England is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 621 745
Rank change year-on-year +88 +124 -170
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Test Analyst 9 42 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.024% 0.081% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.086% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 31 37
10th Percentile - £350 £359
25th Percentile £285 £441 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year -41.67% +41.18% -15.00%
75th Percentile £416 £738 £473
90th Percentile £476 - £619
UK median daily rate £350 £600 £425
% change year-on-year -41.67% +41.18% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £54.25
UK median hourly rate - - £54.25
% change year-on-year - - +44.67%

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 34,601 49,033 68,659
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 94.53% 95.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,060 34,723 48,793
10th Percentile £275 £308 £311
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,374 1,484 1,927
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.58 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £34.21 £43.63 £22.29
Median % change year-on-year -21.59% +95.74% -0.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.42 £75.75 £61.56
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

Automation Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Test Analyst in England

Automation Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Test Analyst in England

Automation Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Test Analyst in England over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Test Analyst in England

Automation Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Automation Test Analyst in England

Automation Test Analyst
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 Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London +88 5 £290 -51.67% 2
Midlands +39 2 £365 - 3
North of England +36 1 £350 - 1
West Midlands +31 1 £350 - 1
South West +27 1 £525 -
Yorkshire +23 1 £350 -
East Midlands - 1 £380 - 2
Automation Test Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Automation Test Analyst 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 Analyst in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (88.89%) Selenium
3 5 (55.56%) Java
3 5 (55.56%) Python
3 5 (55.56%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (44.44%) Finance
4 4 (44.44%) Banking
4 4 (44.44%) JIRA
4 4 (44.44%) Git
4 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
4 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
5 3 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (33.33%) Gradle
5 3 (33.33%) Kafka
5 3 (33.33%) Kibana
5 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 3 (33.33%) Time Management
5 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
5 3 (33.33%) SSH
5 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (33.33%) IntelliJ
5 3 (33.33%) JUnit
6 2 (22.22%) Regression Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
6 2 (22.22%) Agile
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (22.22%) Manual Testing

Automation Test Analyst 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) SSH
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Selenium
2 4 (44.44%) Git
2 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 4 (44.44%) JIRA
3 3 (33.33%) Gradle
3 3 (33.33%) IntelliJ
3 3 (33.33%) JUnit
4 1 (11.11%) Appium
4 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
4 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 1 (11.11%) Postman
4 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
4 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
4 1 (11.11%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (44.44%) Banking
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Health Technology
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) NHS
1 1 (11.11%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (55.56%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 3 (33.33%) Time Management
3 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Manual Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Regression Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (22.22%) System Integration Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Brio
2 1 (11.11%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow