Senior Test Automation Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Automation Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Automation Test Engineer daily rate in England is £573 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 644 776
Rank change year-on-year +117 +132 -142
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Automation Engineer 13 11 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.035% 0.022% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.024% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 7
10th Percentile £358 £506 £403
25th Percentile £374 £525 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% - +41.94%
75th Percentile £590 £604 £600
90th Percentile - £625 £630
UK median daily rate £573 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.09% - +19.57%

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 34,105 46,424 66,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.64% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,627 32,967 47,588
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £640
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 2,443 1,373 1,839
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.92 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Automation Engineer in England

Senior Test Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Automation Engineer in England

Senior Test Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Automation Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Test Automation Engineer in England

Senior Test Automation Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Test Automation Engineer in England

Senior Test 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 Senior Test Automation Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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 +89 6 £365 -36.52% 1
South West +16 6 £590 +7.27% 1
North of England +29 1 £390 -23.90%
Yorkshire - 1 £390 -
Senior Test Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Senior Test 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 Senior Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) Postman
2 8 (61.54%) BDD
2 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) TDD
2 8 (61.54%) Scrum
3 7 (53.85%) SQL
3 7 (53.85%) .NET
3 7 (53.85%) Visual Studio
3 7 (53.85%) NUnit
3 7 (53.85%) Performance Testing
3 7 (53.85%) TypeScript
3 7 (53.85%) Docker
3 7 (53.85%) Git
3 7 (53.85%) AngularJS
3 7 (53.85%) Customer Requirements
3 7 (53.85%) Test Strategy
3 7 (53.85%) Waterfall
3 7 (53.85%) Manual Testing
3 7 (53.85%) Kanban
4 6 (46.15%) Azure
4 6 (46.15%) Non-Functional Testing
4 6 (46.15%) Task Automation
4 6 (46.15%) GraphQL
4 6 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (46.15%) Load Testing
4 6 (46.15%) Security Testing
4 6 (46.15%) Playwright

Senior Test 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
1 6 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Postman
2 7 (53.85%) Git
2 7 (53.85%) NUnit
2 7 (53.85%) Visual Studio
3 3 (23.08%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
4 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.69%) JIRA
4 1 (7.69%) JMeter
4 1 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 4 (30.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (15.38%) Electronics
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
2 2 (15.38%) Marketing
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) .NET
1 7 (53.85%) AngularJS
2 6 (46.15%) GraphQL
2 6 (46.15%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) BDD
2 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 8 (61.54%) Scrum
2 8 (61.54%) TDD
3 7 (53.85%) Customer Requirements
3 7 (53.85%) Kanban
3 7 (53.85%) Manual Testing
3 7 (53.85%) Performance Testing
3 7 (53.85%) Test Strategy
3 7 (53.85%) Waterfall
4 6 (46.15%) Load Testing
4 6 (46.15%) Non-Functional Testing
4 6 (46.15%) Security Testing
4 6 (46.15%) Task Automation
5 4 (30.77%) Regression Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Software Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
1 7 (53.85%) TypeScript
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) SAP