Test Automation Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Automated Testing
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 12 28
Rank change year-on-year -15 +16 -12
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 5 54 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.39% 16.46% 5.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 17.48% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 44 13
10th Percentile £331 £379 £405
25th Percentile £363 £544 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -28.32% +13.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £475 £588 £625
90th Percentile £490 £844 £731
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £405 £565 £500
% change year-on-year -28.32% +13.00% +12.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 178 309 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 85.17% 94.21% 92.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 244 260
10th Percentile £333 £353 £205
25th Percentile £387 £486 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +13.00% +10.50%
75th Percentile £598 £650 £600
90th Percentile £650 £738 £699
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £563 £500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 10
10th Percentile £18.25 - £10.50
25th Percentile £20.75 - £11.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £16.18
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.35%
75th Percentile £50.00 - £17.44
90th Percentile £68.75 - £17.63
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £17.50 - £16.50
% change year-on-year - - +13.68%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Newcastle upon Tyne

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Newcastle upon Tyne

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Newcastle upon Tyne

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Newcastle upon Tyne

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Angular Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
3 1 (20.00%) Jest
3 1 (20.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (20.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) Sass
3 1 (20.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
2 2 (40.00%) Product Backlog
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) API Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Apex Code
3 1 (20.00%) SOQL
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (40.00%) WCAG
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce