Automation Tester Contracts in the North of England

Automation Tester
England > North of England

The median Automation Tester daily rate in the North of England is £440 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 178 210
Rank change year-on-year +15 +32 -48
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 21 32 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.45% 0.55% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.58% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 35
10th Percentile £375 £363 £360
25th Percentile £403 £405 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £488 £475 £500
90th Percentile £525 £500 £545
England median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,371 5,522 6,965
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 95.31% 97.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,902 5,114
10th Percentile £263 £282 £200
25th Percentile £385 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £685 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 162 289
10th Percentile £11.01 £14.03 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.64 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £31.63 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -36.76% +69.27% +4.39%
75th Percentile £46.00 £50.06 £29.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £50.91
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in the North of England

Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Tester in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Automation Tester in the North of England

Automation Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Tester in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Tester in the North of England

Automation Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Automation Tester in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Automation Tester in the North of England

Automation Tester
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 4 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
Yorkshire +18 13 £458 +4.57% 2
North West +12 7 £425 -
North East +18 1 £310 -35.75%
Automation Tester
England

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 North of England region featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 16 (76.19%) Agile
3 10 (47.62%) Selenium
4 9 (42.86%) Java
5 8 (38.10%) JavaScript
6 7 (33.33%) Manual Testing
7 6 (28.57%) AWS
7 6 (28.57%) C#
7 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
8 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
9 4 (19.05%) API Testing
9 4 (19.05%) Fintech
9 4 (19.05%) Python
9 4 (19.05%) Finance
9 4 (19.05%) Cucumber
9 4 (19.05%) REST
10 3 (14.29%) Gherkin
10 3 (14.29%) GitHub
10 3 (14.29%) Wind River
10 3 (14.29%) Scrum
10 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
10 3 (14.29%) SDLC
10 3 (14.29%) Playwright
11 2 (9.52%) Postman
11 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
11 2 (9.52%) Scenario Testing
11 2 (9.52%) Task Automation
11 2 (9.52%) Defect Tracking
11 2 (9.52%) Performance Metrics

Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (28.57%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.76%) Figma
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
3 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) Selenium
2 4 (19.05%) Cucumber
3 2 (9.52%) Cypress.io
3 2 (9.52%) Gatling
3 2 (9.52%) Git
3 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.52%) Postman
3 2 (9.52%) SpecFlow
4 1 (4.76%) GitLab
4 1 (4.76%) JMeter
4 1 (4.76%) JUnit
4 1 (4.76%) REST Assured
4 1 (4.76%) XCUITest
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) REST
2 3 (14.29%) Gherkin
2 3 (14.29%) Playwright
3 2 (9.52%) .NET
3 2 (9.52%) JSON
3 2 (9.52%) OAuth
3 2 (9.52%) OAuth2
3 2 (9.52%) OpenID
3 2 (9.52%) RESTful
3 2 (9.52%) Web Services
4 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.76%) Jest
4 1 (4.76%) Kafka
4 1 (4.76%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Android
1 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 16 (76.19%) Agile
3 7 (33.33%) Manual Testing
4 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
6 4 (19.05%) API Testing
6 4 (19.05%) Fintech
7 3 (14.29%) Scrum
7 3 (14.29%) SDLC
8 2 (9.52%) BDD
8 2 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (9.52%) Functional Testing
8 2 (9.52%) OO
8 2 (9.52%) OOP
8 2 (9.52%) Regression Testing
8 2 (9.52%) Scenario Testing
8 2 (9.52%) Software Testing
8 2 (9.52%) Task Automation
8 2 (9.52%) Test Management
8 2 (9.52%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Java
2 8 (38.10%) JavaScript
3 6 (28.57%) C#
4 4 (19.05%) Python
5 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 2 (9.52%) Scala
7 1 (4.76%) Bash
7 1 (4.76%) C
7 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
1 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Wind River
2 1 (4.76%) Google