QA Automation Contracts in Northamptonshire

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire with a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 0.48% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £355 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 - -
75th Percentile £405 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £380 £370 -
% change year-on-year +2.70% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

QA 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 Northamptonshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 187 211 339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 89.90% 89.03% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 161 269
10th Percentile £309 £188 £220
25th Percentile £356 £308 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £455
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -17.58% +21.33%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £520
90th Percentile £620 £573 £585
East Midlands median daily rate £411 £450 £440
% change year-on-year -8.78% +2.27% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 29
10th Percentile £10.90 £16.12 £10.50
25th Percentile - £18.13 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.00 £41.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.27% +50.91% -38.89%
75th Percentile £50.71 £51.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £53.90 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.00 £18.37 £17.50
% change year-on-year -7.43% +4.94% +18.20%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in Northamptonshire

QA Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Automation in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for QA Automation in Northamptonshire

QA Automation
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Northampton - 1 £380 -
QA Automation
East Midlands

QA Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) QA Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) QA Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow