Test Automation Contracts in Manchester

Automated Testing
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 44 39
Rank change year-on-year +11 -5 +18
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 72 78 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.68% 4.12% 5.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.37% 4.49% 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 53 106
10th Percentile £403 £342 £354
25th Percentile £425 £413 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +19.32%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £626 £666
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.68 -
Median hourly rate £61.25 £42.37 -
Median % change year-on-year +44.58% - -
75th Percentile £71.87 £45.05 -
90th Percentile £73.50 - -
North West median hourly rate £61.25 £42.37 £65.00
% change year-on-year +44.58% -34.82% +188.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,341 1,737 2,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.13% 91.81% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 914 1,272 1,807
10th Percentile £313 £315 £263
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year - +1.73% +9.22%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £663 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 61 51
10th Percentile £12.42 £14.65 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £37.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.15% +140.65% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £24.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.49
% change year-on-year -40.00% +70.82% +10.76%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Manchester

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Manchester

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Manchester

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Manchester

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Automation in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Automation in Manchester

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 29 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
Salford - 2 £438 - 3
Stockport - 1 £550 - 4
Altrincham - 1 £563 - 2
Test Automation
North West

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) Alfresco
Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Simulink
1 4 (5.56%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 28 (38.89%) AWS
2 9 (12.50%) Azure
3 8 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
3 8 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 8 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
3 8 (11.11%) Route 53
3 8 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (5.56%) GitHub
5 3 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.17%) BrowserStack
6 2 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.78%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.78%) SaaS
6 2 (2.78%) Sauce Labs
6 2 (2.78%) Serverless
7 1 (1.39%) Firebase
7 1 (1.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 6 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.78%) MySQL
5 1 (1.39%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.39%) Power BI
5 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (18.06%) Selenium
2 11 (15.28%) GitLab
3 8 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 8 (11.11%) Git
3 8 (11.11%) webpack
4 7 (9.72%) Jenkins
5 6 (8.33%) Postman
6 5 (6.94%) Cypress.io
6 5 (6.94%) Gatling
7 4 (5.56%) JIRA
7 4 (5.56%) JMeter
7 4 (5.56%) SpecFlow
7 4 (5.56%) TeamCity
8 3 (4.17%) Mocha
8 3 (4.17%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (4.17%) TestCafe
9 2 (2.78%) Appium
9 2 (2.78%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.78%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.39%) SoapUI
General
1 10 (13.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.94%) Automotive
3 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.56%) Legal
4 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.78%) Banking
5 2 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Aviation
6 1 (1.39%) Finance
6 1 (1.39%) Law
6 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (29.17%) Test Engineer
2 15 (20.83%) Senior
3 14 (19.44%) Developer
4 11 (15.28%) Senior Test Engineer
5 10 (13.89%) Tester
6 8 (11.11%) Automation Tester
6 8 (11.11%) Software Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Lead
7 7 (9.72%) QA Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Test Automation Engineer
9 4 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (5.56%) QA Automation Engineer
9 4 (5.56%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.56%) Technical Leader
10 3 (4.17%) Architect
10 3 (4.17%) Full Stack Developer
11 2 (2.78%) Consultant
11 2 (2.78%) Developer in Test
11 2 (2.78%) Java Automation Tester
11 2 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (27.78%) React
2 15 (20.83%) Node.js
3 11 (15.28%) Redux
4 8 (11.11%) Express.js
5 6 (8.33%) Playwright
6 4 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 4 (5.56%) Jest
6 4 (5.56%) Kafka
6 4 (5.56%) Web Services
7 3 (4.17%) .NET
7 3 (4.17%) RESTful
7 3 (4.17%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.78%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (2.78%) CSS
8 2 (2.78%) Gherkin
8 2 (2.78%) OAuth2
8 2 (2.78%) OpenID
8 2 (2.78%) pytest
8 2 (2.78%) REST
8 2 (2.78%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.39%) PKI
4 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.78%) Mac OS X
1 2 (2.78%) Unix
2 1 (1.39%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (34.72%) Agile
2 24 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 17 (23.61%) DevOps
3 17 (23.61%) Full Stack Development
4 14 (19.44%) Front End Development
5 12 (16.67%) QA Automation
5 12 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 11 (15.28%) Containerisation
6 11 (15.28%) TDD
7 10 (13.89%) API Development
7 10 (13.89%) BDD
7 10 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (13.89%) End-to-End Testing
8 9 (12.50%) Microservices
9 8 (11.11%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 8 (11.11%) Customer Engagement
9 8 (11.11%) ETL
10 7 (9.72%) Manual Testing
10 7 (9.72%) Security Testing
11 6 (8.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (30.56%) Java
2 13 (18.06%) C#
3 10 (13.89%) JavaScript
4 9 (12.50%) SQL
5 5 (6.94%) Python
6 4 (5.56%) MATLAB
6 4 (5.56%) PHP
6 4 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.56%) Scala
7 3 (4.17%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.78%) Groovy
8 2 (2.78%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 9 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (33.33%) QA
2 14 (19.44%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.17%) SLA
4 2 (2.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (18.06%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.17%) Grafana
2 3 (4.17%) Kibana
3 1 (1.39%) HP Fortify
3 1 (1.39%) Nmap
3 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (2.78%) Perfecto Mobile
1 2 (2.78%) SAP
1 2 (2.78%) Siemens
2 1 (1.39%) Avaloq