Test Automation Contracts in Merseyside

Automated Testing
North West > Merseyside

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 46 43
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 -10
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 4 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.79% 0.87% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 0.99% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £441 £378
25th Percentile £505 £466 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £388
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +32.26% -18.42%
75th Percentile £515 £519 £394
90th Percentile - - £398
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 177 302 328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 79.02% 87.54% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 232 225
10th Percentile £144 £313 £178
25th Percentile £245 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +21.62%
75th Percentile £494 £556 £538
90th Percentile £608 £688 £638
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 8 19
10th Percentile - £16.23 £9.23
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £10.27
Median hourly rate £20.31 £18.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.81% +38.46% -8.80%
75th Percentile £34.32 £23.75 £17.13
90th Percentile £37.18 £25.63 £34.47
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Merseyside

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Merseyside

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 27 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
Liverpool +12 4 £510 +13.33% 1
Test Automation
North West

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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