Test Automation Contracts in the Midlands

Automated Testing
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 61 70
Rank change year-on-year -28 +9 -16
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 42 114 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.53% 3.34% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 3.78% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 87 128
10th Percentile £350 £267 £313
25th Percentile £363 £370 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £466 £430
Median % change year-on-year -9.44% +8.37% +7.50%
75th Percentile £453 £538 £503
90th Percentile £538 £611 £622
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.00
Median hourly rate - - £39.00
75th Percentile - - £41.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £61.25 £67.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.59% +12.92% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,256 3,016 4,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.19% 88.42% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,508 2,104 3,280
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £370 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £565
90th Percentile £700 £680 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 120 151
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.98 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.60 £15.07 £13.62
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.04 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.31% +3.10% +9.38%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.47 £22.18
90th Percentile £55.00 £53.88 £34.50
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
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 Test Automation within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
West Midlands -25 23 £425 -15.00% 52
East Midlands +3 19 £419 +10.26% 29
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
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:

Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.19%) Azure
2 9 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (7.14%) AWS
4 2 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.38%) GCP
5 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (2.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
1 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.76%) Big Data
3 1 (2.38%) MySQL
3 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 5 (11.90%) JMeter
3 4 (9.52%) Cucumber
3 4 (9.52%) Git
3 4 (9.52%) Selenium
4 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 3 (7.14%) JIRA
4 3 (7.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (7.14%) Visual Studio
5 2 (4.76%) Appium
5 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.76%) Maven
5 2 (4.76%) Postman
5 2 (4.76%) REST Assured
5 2 (4.76%) SoapUI
5 2 (4.76%) TestNG
5 2 (4.76%) UI Automator
5 2 (4.76%) XCUITest
6 1 (2.38%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Finance
3 3 (7.14%) Games
4 2 (4.76%) Banking
4 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Marketing
5 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) Tester
2 7 (16.67%) Analyst
3 6 (14.29%) Automation Tester
3 6 (14.29%) Developer
4 5 (11.90%) Angular Developer
4 5 (11.90%) Test Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) QA Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Performance Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Performance Test Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Automation Test Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Mobile Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Process Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) QA Tester
7 2 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Test Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Test Manager
8 1 (2.38%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) AngularJS
1 5 (11.90%) CSS
1 5 (11.90%) HTML
2 4 (9.52%) React
3 2 (4.76%) RESTful
3 2 (4.76%) SOAP
4 1 (2.38%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.38%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.38%) gRPC
4 1 (2.38%) JMS
4 1 (2.38%) Kafka
4 1 (2.38%) Next.js
4 1 (2.38%) Playwright
4 1 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.38%) RAML
4 1 (2.38%) Vitest
4 1 (2.38%) Web Services
4 1 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (4.76%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.38%) e-Learning
2 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.38%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Android
1 2 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (35.71%) Agile
1 15 (35.71%) DevOps
2 12 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 10 (23.81%) Test Scripting
4 9 (21.43%) Scenario Testing
4 9 (21.43%) Test Strategy
5 7 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
5 7 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
7 5 (11.90%) Exploratory Testing
7 5 (11.90%) Functional Testing
8 4 (9.52%) Micro Frontends
8 4 (9.52%) Performance Testing
8 4 (9.52%) Project Management
8 4 (9.52%) Service Management
8 4 (9.52%) User Experience
9 3 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (7.14%) Technical Debt
9 3 (7.14%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.29%) SQL
1 6 (14.29%) TypeScript
2 5 (11.90%) Java
3 3 (7.14%) C#
3 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.76%) Kotlin
4 2 (4.76%) Python
4 2 (4.76%) Swift
5 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (23.81%) ISTQB
2 7 (16.67%) ISEB
3 4 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.38%) Degree
5 1 (2.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (33.33%) QA
2 4 (9.52%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.38%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.76%) Databricks
3 2 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.38%) HP
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle