Test Automation Contracts in Liverpool

Automated Testing
Merseyside > Liverpool

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Liverpool 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 41 39
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 -17
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Liverpool 2.15% 0.37% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 0.42% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £378
25th Percentile £505 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £450 £388
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +16.13% -
75th Percentile £515 £475 £394
90th Percentile - - £398
Merseyside median daily rate £510 £513 £388
% change year-on-year -0.49% +32.26% -18.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 150 238 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 80.65% 87.50% 86.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 185 148
10th Percentile £143 £325 £183
25th Percentile £213 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £490 £469
Median % change year-on-year -23.47% +4.53% +44.23%
75th Percentile £494 £550 £575
90th Percentile £630 £655 £650
Merseyside median daily rate £400 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -20.00% +14.29% +18.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 6 14
10th Percentile - £16.22 £9.44
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £10.10
Median hourly rate £18.11 £17.50 £11.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.49% +55.52% -21.06%
75th Percentile £34.27 £19.13 £14.94
90th Percentile £36.99 £21.50 £17.78
Merseyside median hourly rate £20.31 £18.00 £12.13
% change year-on-year +12.81% +48.42% -3.06%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Liverpool

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Liverpool

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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:

General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Development Manager
1 4 (100.00%) Software Development Manager
1 4 (100.00%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Coaching
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Software Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript