Automation Tester Contracts in England

Automation Tester
UK > England

The median Automation Tester daily rate in England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 459 510 502
Rank change year-on-year +51 -8 -22
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 77 150 296
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.30% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.31% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 114 244
10th Percentile £355 £363 £350
25th Percentile £411 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £625 £530 £523
90th Percentile £688 £584 £554
UK median daily rate £447 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £45.06
25th Percentile - - £48.90
Median hourly rate - - £56.58
75th Percentile - - £63.06
90th Percentile - - £66.17
UK median hourly rate - - £56.58

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 34,509 48,061 68,243
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.57% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,973 34,073 48,458
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £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 2,410 1,449 1,922
10th Percentile £12.91 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in England

Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Tester in England

Automation Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Tester in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Tester in England

Automation Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Automation Tester in England

Automation Tester
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 Tester within the England region over the 6 months to 24 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 +79 46 £500 - 3
North of England +30 21 £425 - 1
Yorkshire +22 12 £440 +0.57%
North West +14 8 £400 -5.88% 1
Midlands +33 6 £390 +1.30% 2
East Midlands +11 5 £400 +5.26% 1
South East -2 3 £450 +7.14% 1
West Midlands +28 1 £203 -61.43% 1
North East +17 1 £310 -35.75%
Automation Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Automation Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 77 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 35 (45.45%) Java
3 30 (38.96%) Selenium
4 29 (37.66%) Agile
5 23 (29.87%) C#
6 18 (23.38%) Social Skills
7 17 (22.08%) JavaScript
7 17 (22.08%) Banking
7 17 (22.08%) Cucumber
8 15 (19.48%) QA
9 14 (18.18%) Test Strategy
10 13 (16.88%) Python
11 12 (15.58%) AWS
11 12 (15.58%) API Testing
12 11 (14.29%) BDD
12 11 (14.29%) Cypress.io
12 11 (14.29%) Jenkins
13 10 (12.99%) Functional Testing
13 10 (12.99%) CI/CD
14 9 (11.69%) Postman
14 9 (11.69%) DevOps
14 9 (11.69%) Scenario Testing
14 9 (11.69%) Azure
14 9 (11.69%) Manual Testing
14 9 (11.69%) Regression Testing
14 9 (11.69%) Investment Banking
14 9 (11.69%) Scrum
15 8 (10.39%) Equities
15 8 (10.39%) Finance
15 8 (10.39%) REST

Automation Tester 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.58%) AWS
2 9 (11.69%) Azure
3 5 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (6.49%) GitHub
4 3 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.60%) Figma
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.30%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.30%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.30%) SaaS
6 1 (1.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.60%) Power BI
2 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.30%) Parquet
2 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (38.96%) Selenium
2 17 (22.08%) Cucumber
3 11 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 11 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 9 (11.69%) Postman
5 8 (10.39%) SpecFlow
6 6 (7.79%) REST Assured
6 6 (7.79%) WebDriver
7 5 (6.49%) Git
7 5 (6.49%) JUnit
7 5 (6.49%) SoapUI
8 4 (5.19%) JIRA
8 4 (5.19%) JMeter
8 4 (5.19%) TestNG
9 3 (3.90%) Gatling
10 2 (2.60%) Appium
10 2 (2.60%) TestComplete
11 1 (1.30%) Fiddler
11 1 (1.30%) NUnit
11 1 (1.30%) Xcode
General
1 18 (23.38%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.08%) Banking
3 9 (11.69%) Investment Banking
4 8 (10.39%) Finance
5 7 (9.09%) Prime Brokerage
6 6 (7.79%) Front Office
7 4 (5.19%) Back Office
7 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.19%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.30%) Retail
9 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.39%) REST
2 6 (7.79%) Gherkin
3 5 (6.49%) .NET
3 5 (6.49%) JSON
4 4 (5.19%) Jest
4 4 (5.19%) Web Services
5 3 (3.90%) ADO
5 3 (3.90%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.90%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (3.90%) Playwright
5 3 (3.90%) pytest
5 3 (3.90%) React
5 3 (3.90%) RESTful
5 3 (3.90%) XML
6 2 (2.60%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.60%) OAuth
6 2 (2.60%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.60%) OpenID
7 1 (1.30%) Chai
7 1 (1.30%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) Equities
2 5 (6.49%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (6.49%) Hedge funds
3 4 (5.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.90%) Unix
2 2 (2.60%) Android
3 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 29 (37.66%) Agile
3 14 (18.18%) Test Strategy
4 12 (15.58%) API Testing
5 11 (14.29%) BDD
6 10 (12.99%) CI/CD
6 10 (12.99%) Functional Testing
7 9 (11.69%) DevOps
7 9 (11.69%) Manual Testing
7 9 (11.69%) Regression Testing
7 9 (11.69%) Scenario Testing
7 9 (11.69%) Scrum
8 8 (10.39%) Exploratory Testing
8 8 (10.39%) Fintech
9 7 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
9 7 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (7.79%) Microservices
10 6 (7.79%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (7.79%) Test Planning
11 5 (6.49%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 35 (45.45%) Java
2 23 (29.87%) C#
3 17 (22.08%) JavaScript
4 13 (16.88%) Python
5 7 (9.09%) SQL
6 6 (7.79%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.90%) Scala
8 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (6.49%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.19%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.30%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.48%) QA
2 5 (6.49%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.19%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (2.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (6.49%) ServiceNow
2 3 (3.90%) Wind River
3 2 (2.60%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.30%) Adobe
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.30%) Qualtrics
4 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.30%) Splunk