Test Automation Contracts in Northampton

Automated Testing
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 17 20
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 6 5 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 4.08% 3.73% 5.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 4.39% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 10
10th Percentile £362 - £349
25th Percentile £371 £231 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £238 £361
Median % change year-on-year +68.42% -34.21% +1.69%
75th Percentile £428 £244 £437
90th Percentile £437 £260 £491
Northamptonshire median daily rate £400 £238 £361
% change year-on-year +68.42% -34.21% +1.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 139 114 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 94.56% 85.07% 91.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 91 177
10th Percentile £350 £163 £300
25th Percentile £358 £280 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £400 £455
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% -12.09% +14.90%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £515
90th Percentile £620 £606 £571
Northamptonshire median daily rate £444 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +11.00% -11.11% +18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 8
10th Percentile - - £9.75
25th Percentile - - £10.31
Median hourly rate £14.00 £14.52 £12.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +18.53% -72.78%
75th Percentile - - £13.74
90th Percentile £35.75 - £16.68
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £14.00 £41.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -66.27% +50.91% -38.89%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Northampton

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Northampton

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
1 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Automation Tester
1 5 (83.33%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) QA Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) QA Automation Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) QA Automation Tester
2 1 (16.67%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) QA Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
1 1 (16.67%) gRPC
1 1 (16.67%) JMS
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (16.67%) RAML
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) End-to-End Testing
1 5 (83.33%) Exploratory Testing
1 5 (83.33%) Scenario Testing
1 5 (83.33%) System Integration Testing
1 5 (83.33%) Test Strategy
1 5 (83.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Functional Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) API Design
4 1 (16.67%) ArchiMate
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) QA Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle