Automation Tester Contracts in the Midlands

Automation Tester
England > Midlands

The median Automation Tester daily rate in the Midlands is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 164 188
Rank change year-on-year +34 +24 -34
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 7 12 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 0.34% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.36% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 15
10th Percentile £263 - £325
25th Percentile £355 £370 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £390 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £440 £525 £444
90th Percentile £442 £550 £450
England median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +3.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,519 3,341 4,986
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.90% 94.30% 96.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,708 2,345 3,662
10th Percentile £206 £220 £205
25th Percentile £327 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £645
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 137 178
10th Percentile £12.04 £12.00 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.50 £15.25 £13.59
Median hourly rate £19.13 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +17.65% +9.85%
75th Percentile £30.37 £27.13 £22.00
90th Percentile £52.34 £58.50 £34.50
England median hourly rate £34.21 £43.63 £22.29
% change year-on-year -21.59% +95.74% -0.58%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in the Midlands

Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Tester in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Automation Tester in the Midlands

Automation Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Tester in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Tester in the Midlands

Automation Tester
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Tester within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
East Midlands +20 6 £420 +10.53% 1
West Midlands +27 1 £203 -63.18%
Automation Tester
England

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Automation Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Test Strategy
2 5 (71.43%) System Integration Testing
2 5 (71.43%) ServiceNow
2 5 (71.43%) Exploratory Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Scenario Testing
2 5 (71.43%) End-to-End Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
3 4 (57.14%) Functional Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Technology Transformation
4 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
5 2 (28.57%) Java
5 2 (28.57%) Selenium
6 1 (14.29%) Postman
6 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 1 (14.29%) GitHub
6 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
6 1 (14.29%) QA Automation
6 1 (14.29%) JUnit
6 1 (14.29%) Python
6 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
6 1 (14.29%) SoapUI
6 1 (14.29%) Azure
6 1 (14.29%) AWS
6 1 (14.29%) Agile
6 1 (14.29%) QA

Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) JUnit
3 1 (14.29%) Postman
3 1 (14.29%) SoapUI
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) End-to-End Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Exploratory Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Scenario Testing
2 5 (71.43%) System Integration Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Test Strategy
2 5 (71.43%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Functional Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Technology Transformation
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) QA Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) ServiceNow