QA Automation Engineer Contracts in England

Automation QA Engineer
UK > England

The median Automation QA Engineer daily rate in England is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 639 744
Rank change year-on-year +104 +105 -161
Contract jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 13 29 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.035% 0.057% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.060% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 26 28
10th Percentile £413 £369 £400
25th Percentile £456 £525 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £650 £520
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +25.00% +15.56%
75th Percentile £500 £738 £575
90th Percentile £503 - £683
UK median daily rate £483 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -19.58% +20.00% +11.11%

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 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £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 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

QA Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Engineer in England

QA Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for QA Automation Engineer in England

QA Automation Engineer
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 QA Automation Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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 +89 6 £500 -23.08% 6
North of England +34 5 £500 -9.09% 3
North West - 4 £500 - 1
East of England - 2 £475 - 1
Yorkshire +24 1 £425 -22.73% 2
QA Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, QA Automation Engineer 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 QA Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) QA
2 10 (76.92%) Test Automation
3 7 (53.85%) Selenium
3 7 (53.85%) Agile
3 7 (53.85%) QA Automation
4 6 (46.15%) Java
4 6 (46.15%) Cucumber
5 5 (38.46%) Python
5 5 (38.46%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
6 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
6 4 (30.77%) API Testing
6 4 (30.77%) Software Testing
6 4 (30.77%) BDD
6 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
7 3 (23.08%) Appium
7 3 (23.08%) Bitbucket
7 3 (23.08%) Time Management
7 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
7 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
7 3 (23.08%) Git
7 3 (23.08%) AWS
7 3 (23.08%) Confluence
7 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (23.08%) JIRA
7 3 (23.08%) Finance
7 3 (23.08%) BrowserStack
7 3 (23.08%) Sauce Labs
7 3 (23.08%) Perfecto Mobile
7 3 (23.08%) Conversational UI

QA Automation Engineer 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 3 (23.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) BrowserStack
1 3 (23.08%) Sauce Labs
2 2 (15.38%) GitHub
2 2 (15.38%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Selenium
2 6 (46.15%) Cucumber
3 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
4 3 (23.08%) Appium
4 3 (23.08%) Bitbucket
4 3 (23.08%) Git
4 3 (23.08%) JIRA
5 2 (15.38%) GitLab
5 2 (15.38%) Postman
6 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
6 1 (7.69%) JMeter
6 1 (7.69%) REST Assured
6 1 (7.69%) SpecFlow
6 1 (7.69%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (38.46%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Gherkin
1 2 (15.38%) pytest
1 2 (15.38%) RESTful
1 2 (15.38%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Test Automation
2 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) QA Automation
3 4 (30.77%) API Testing
3 4 (30.77%) BDD
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Software Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (23.08%) Conversational AI
4 3 (23.08%) Conversational UI
4 3 (23.08%) Time Management
5 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
5 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 2 (15.38%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Product Management
5 2 (15.38%) Security Hardening
5 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (15.38%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle