Test Automation Engineer Contracts in England

Automation Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Automation Test Engineer daily rate in England is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 490 553 654
Rank change year-on-year +63 +101 -126
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 47 98 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.21% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 82 82
10th Percentile £378 £355 £376
25th Percentile £404 £433 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £511
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +7.58% +20.29%
75th Percentile £573 £625 £638
90th Percentile £590 £734 £806
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.30%

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 33,742 45,591 67,107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,367 32,416 47,845
10th Percentile £282 £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 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,431 1,343 1,853
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.39 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Engineer in England

Test Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation Engineer in England

Test Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation Engineer in England

Test Automation Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation Engineer in England

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 Test Automation Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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 +80 28 £450 -23.08% 4
North of England +15 8 £438 -20.45% 2
South West -3 8 £590 +12.38%
North West +11 5 £438 -14.63% 2
Yorkshire +13 3 £470 -14.55%
South East +12 1 - - 2
East of England +10 1 £420 -23.64% 4
Test Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, 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 Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 47 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 21 (44.68%) Selenium
2 21 (44.68%) Agile
3 19 (40.43%) Java
4 15 (31.91%) DevOps
5 13 (27.66%) Postman
5 13 (27.66%) CI/CD
6 12 (25.53%) Software Testing
6 12 (25.53%) Python
6 12 (25.53%) Azure
6 12 (25.53%) BDD
7 11 (23.40%) Docker
7 11 (23.40%) TDD
7 11 (23.40%) Scrum
7 11 (23.40%) Accessibility
7 11 (23.40%) Playwright
8 10 (21.28%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (21.28%) Performance Testing
8 10 (21.28%) SQL
8 10 (21.28%) .NET
8 10 (21.28%) C#
8 10 (21.28%) TypeScript
8 10 (21.28%) Test Strategy
8 10 (21.28%) Manual Testing
8 10 (21.28%) Git
8 10 (21.28%) Kanban
9 9 (19.15%) Test Scripting
9 9 (19.15%) Waterfall
9 9 (19.15%) Cypress.io
9 9 (19.15%) NUnit

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.13%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.53%) Azure
2 10 (21.28%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (10.64%) AWS
4 4 (8.51%) GitHub
5 1 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.13%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) 3GPP
1 1 (2.13%) DNS
1 1 (2.13%) Firewall
1 1 (2.13%) HTTP
1 1 (2.13%) Internet
1 1 (2.13%) MQTT
1 1 (2.13%) SSL
1 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.13%) VPN
1 1 (2.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (44.68%) Selenium
2 13 (27.66%) Postman
3 10 (21.28%) Git
4 9 (19.15%) Cypress.io
4 9 (19.15%) NUnit
5 8 (17.02%) Jenkins
5 8 (17.02%) Visual Studio
6 5 (10.64%) Cucumber
6 5 (10.64%) REST Assured
6 5 (10.64%) SpecFlow
7 4 (8.51%) JIRA
7 4 (8.51%) JUnit
8 3 (6.38%) TestNG
9 2 (4.26%) Appium
9 2 (4.26%) HP UFT
9 2 (4.26%) JMeter
9 2 (4.26%) WebDriver
10 1 (2.13%) Gatling
10 1 (2.13%) GitLab
10 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (14.89%) Finance
2 6 (12.77%) Public Sector
2 6 (12.77%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.77%) Telecoms
3 4 (8.51%) Banking
3 4 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (8.51%) Retail
4 3 (6.38%) Electronics
4 3 (6.38%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.38%) Marketing
5 2 (4.26%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Aviation
6 1 (2.13%) Back Office
6 1 (2.13%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) Playwright
2 10 (21.28%) .NET
3 8 (17.02%) AngularJS
4 7 (14.89%) GraphQL
5 3 (6.38%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.13%) Kafka
6 1 (2.13%) pytest
6 1 (2.13%) RESTful
6 1 (2.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.13%) Derivative
2 1 (2.13%) Fat Client
2 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.13%) Machine to Machine
2 1 (2.13%) Market Risk
2 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (2.13%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Android
2 2 (4.26%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Windows
3 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 21 (44.68%) Agile
3 15 (31.91%) DevOps
4 13 (27.66%) CI/CD
5 12 (25.53%) BDD
5 12 (25.53%) Software Testing
6 11 (23.40%) Scrum
6 11 (23.40%) TDD
7 10 (21.28%) Kanban
7 10 (21.28%) Manual Testing
7 10 (21.28%) Performance Testing
7 10 (21.28%) Test Strategy
8 9 (19.15%) Test Scripting
8 9 (19.15%) Waterfall
9 8 (17.02%) Customer Requirements
10 7 (14.89%) Load Testing
10 7 (14.89%) Non-Functional Testing
10 7 (14.89%) Security Testing
10 7 (14.89%) Task Automation
11 5 (10.64%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (40.43%) Java
2 12 (25.53%) Python
3 10 (21.28%) C#
3 10 (21.28%) SQL
3 10 (21.28%) TypeScript
4 5 (10.64%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.26%) Bash
6 1 (2.13%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) SC Cleared
1 8 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.38%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.40%) Accessibility
2 6 (12.77%) QA
System Software
1 11 (23.40%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) iptables
2 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.13%) Ansible
2 1 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (2.13%) Kibana
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (6.38%) SAP
2 1 (2.13%) Adobe
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.13%) Qualtrics
2 1 (2.13%) Splunk
2 1 (2.13%) Spotify