Test Automation Contracts in Leeds

Automated Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 22 28
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 -15
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 40 84 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 5.04% 6.33% 6.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.81% 6.95% 6.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 54 60
10th Percentile £364 £416 £400
25th Percentile £404 £493 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £478
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.18% +6.11%
75th Percentile £504 £600 £519
90th Percentile £585 £700 £578
West Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £550 £478
% change year-on-year -15.91% +15.18% +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 688 1,209 1,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 86.76% 91.18% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 875 1,077
10th Percentile £300 £384 £313
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 20
10th Percentile £11.75 £13.13 £17.60
25th Percentile £12.15 £17.43 £20.38
Median hourly rate £12.30 £44.53 £22.52
Median % change year-on-year -72.38% +97.70% +7.25%
75th Percentile £12.53 £68.44 £27.63
90th Percentile £15.24 £70.00 £28.80
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £12.53 £27.00 £17.82
% change year-on-year -53.59% +51.52% -20.34%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Leeds

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Leeds

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Leeds over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Leeds

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 4 (10.00%) Azure
2 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.00%) AWS
3 2 (5.00%) Tricentis Tosca
4 1 (2.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) DHCP
1 2 (5.00%) DNS
1 2 (5.00%) HTTP
1 2 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 16 (40.00%) Selenium
2 5 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.50%) JMeter
2 5 (12.50%) Postman
3 3 (7.50%) Cypress.io
3 3 (7.50%) Git
3 3 (7.50%) WebDriver
3 3 (7.50%) XCUITest
4 2 (5.00%) Gatling
4 2 (5.00%) JIRA
4 2 (5.00%) JUnit
4 2 (5.00%) Mockito
5 1 (2.50%) TestNG
5 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Banking
4 2 (5.00%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Tester
2 9 (22.50%) Automation Tester
3 7 (17.50%) Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Analyst
5 4 (10.00%) Automation Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior
5 4 (10.00%) Test Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Lead
6 3 (7.50%) QA Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) QA Test Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Test Leader
8 1 (2.50%) Junior
8 1 (2.50%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (10.00%) Gherkin
1 4 (10.00%) Kafka
2 2 (5.00%) JAX-RS
2 2 (5.00%) JSON
2 2 (5.00%) REST
2 2 (5.00%) Web Services
3 1 (2.50%) .NET
3 1 (2.50%) CSS
3 1 (2.50%) HTML
3 1 (2.50%) PySpark
3 1 (2.50%) pytest
3 1 (2.50%) React
3 1 (2.50%) Redux
3 1 (2.50%) RESTful
3 1 (2.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.00%) NHS
3 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Mac OS X
1 4 (10.00%) Unix
2 2 (5.00%) Android
2 2 (5.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.00%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Windows
2 2 (5.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (5.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (60.00%) Agile
2 16 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 9 (22.50%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (22.50%) Project Management
4 9 (22.50%) Test Strategy
5 8 (20.00%) Manual Testing
5 8 (20.00%) TDD
6 7 (17.50%) BDD
6 7 (17.50%) Defect Tracking
7 6 (15.00%) Software Architecture
7 6 (15.00%) Test Planning
7 6 (15.00%) Test Scripting
8 5 (12.50%) Analytics
9 4 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (10.00%) DevOps
9 4 (10.00%) Functional Testing
9 4 (10.00%) Mentoring
9 4 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 19 (47.50%) Java
2 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
3 5 (12.50%) Python
3 5 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 3 (7.50%) Bash
4 3 (7.50%) C#
4 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.00%) Groovy
5 2 (5.00%) Scala
5 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.50%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (42.50%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.00%) KVM
2 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (7.50%) Terraform
2 2 (5.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) VMware
2 2 (5.00%) Wind River
3 1 (2.50%) Ariba
3 1 (2.50%) Brio
3 1 (2.50%) Databricks
3 1 (2.50%) SAP