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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 44 39
Rank change year-on-year +18 -5 +11
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 71 71 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.89% 3.89% 5.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.63% 4.25% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 51 115
10th Percentile £413 £318 £360
25th Percentile £425 £406 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +19.32%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £694 £625 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £505
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.94% +18.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.68 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £42.37 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.53% - -
75th Percentile £72.19 £45.05 -
90th Percentile £74.50 - -
North West median hourly rate £62.50 £53.93 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.89% -17.03% +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 1,260 1,669 2,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.84% 91.45% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 1,218 1,809
10th Percentile £325 £313 £273
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 53 58
10th Percentile £12.44 £16.67 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +93.83% +11.26%
75th Percentile £60.63 £45.05 £34.69
90th Percentile £73.70 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £23.80 £36.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -33.89% +46.94% +32.43%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 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
Salford - 2 £438 - 4
Altrincham - 1 £563 - 2
Stockport - 1 £550 - 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 (2.82%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) Alfresco
Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Simulink
1 4 (5.63%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 29 (40.85%) AWS
2 8 (11.27%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (11.27%) Amazon ECR
2 8 (11.27%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (11.27%) Amazon S3
2 8 (11.27%) Amazon SQS
2 8 (11.27%) Route 53
2 8 (11.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (9.86%) Azure
4 4 (5.63%) GitHub
5 3 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (4.23%) BrowserStack
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.82%) SaaS
6 2 (2.82%) Sauce Labs
6 2 (2.82%) Serverless
7 1 (1.41%) PaaS
7 1 (1.41%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.27%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (7.04%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.04%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.82%) MySQL
5 1 (1.41%) Power BI
5 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (18.31%) Selenium
2 11 (15.49%) GitLab
3 8 (11.27%) webpack
4 7 (9.86%) Cucumber
4 7 (9.86%) Git
5 6 (8.45%) Jenkins
6 5 (7.04%) Cypress.io
6 5 (7.04%) Postman
7 4 (5.63%) Gatling
7 4 (5.63%) JIRA
7 4 (5.63%) SpecFlow
7 4 (5.63%) TeamCity
8 3 (4.23%) JMeter
8 3 (4.23%) Mocha
8 3 (4.23%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (4.23%) TestCafe
9 2 (2.82%) Appium
9 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.82%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.41%) Gradle
General
1 10 (14.08%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.04%) Automotive
3 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.63%) Legal
4 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.82%) Banking
5 2 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Aviation
6 1 (1.41%) Finance
6 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (28.17%) Test Engineer
2 15 (21.13%) Senior
3 12 (16.90%) Developer
4 11 (15.49%) Senior Test Engineer
4 11 (15.49%) Software Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) Tester
6 7 (9.86%) Lead
6 7 (9.86%) QA Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) Automation Tester
8 5 (7.04%) Test Automation Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) QA Automation Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Technical Leader
10 3 (4.23%) Architect
10 3 (4.23%) Consultant
10 3 (4.23%) Full Stack Developer
11 2 (2.82%) Software Developer
11 2 (2.82%) Software Test Engineer
11 2 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.17%) React
2 16 (22.54%) Node.js
3 11 (15.49%) Redux
4 8 (11.27%) Express.js
5 6 (8.45%) Spring Boot
6 5 (7.04%) Playwright
6 5 (7.04%) Spring
7 4 (5.63%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.63%) AWS CDK
7 4 (5.63%) Kafka
8 3 (4.23%) .NET
8 3 (4.23%) Jest
8 3 (4.23%) Web Services
9 2 (2.82%) ActiveMQ
9 2 (2.82%) CSS
9 2 (2.82%) Gherkin
9 2 (2.82%) pytest
9 2 (2.82%) RESTful
9 2 (2.82%) WebdriverIO
10 1 (1.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.45%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.63%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.41%) PKI
4 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Mac OS X
1 2 (2.82%) Unix
2 1 (1.41%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.62%) CI/CD
2 25 (35.21%) Agile
3 16 (22.54%) Full Stack Development
4 15 (21.13%) DevOps
5 14 (19.72%) Software Engineering
6 13 (18.31%) Front End Development
7 12 (16.90%) QA Automation
8 11 (15.49%) Microservices
9 10 (14.08%) BDD
9 10 (14.08%) Containerisation
9 10 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (14.08%) TDD
10 9 (12.68%) End-to-End Testing
11 8 (11.27%) API Development
11 8 (11.27%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 8 (11.27%) Customer Engagement
11 8 (11.27%) ETL
12 7 (9.86%) Manual Testing
12 7 (9.86%) Security Testing
13 6 (8.45%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (33.80%) Java
2 13 (18.31%) C#
3 9 (12.68%) SQL
4 8 (11.27%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.04%) Python
5 5 (7.04%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.63%) MATLAB
6 4 (5.63%) PHP
6 4 (5.63%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.23%) Scala
8 2 (2.82%) Groovy
8 2 (2.82%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (12.68%) SC Cleared
1 9 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.23%) Degree
3 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (33.80%) QA
2 13 (18.31%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.23%) SLA
4 2 (2.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (4.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (19.72%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.23%) Grafana
2 3 (4.23%) Kibana
3 1 (1.41%) HP Fortify
3 1 (1.41%) Nmap
3 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.23%) SAP
1 3 (4.23%) Siemens
2 2 (2.82%) Perfecto Mobile
3 1 (1.41%) Avaloq