Test Automation Contracts in Northamptonshire

Automated Testing
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 30 33
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 -16
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 6 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 2.87% 2.86% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 3.20% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 9
10th Percentile £362 - £349
25th Percentile £371 £231 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £238 £360
Median % change year-on-year +68.42% -34.03% +1.41%
75th Percentile £428 £257 £396
90th Percentile £437 £377 £464
East Midlands median daily rate £419 £380 £400
% change year-on-year +10.26% -5.00% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 188 219 333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 89.95% 89.39% 90.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 169 267
10th Percentile £302 £190 £217
25th Percentile £356 £308 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% +20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £520
90th Percentile £620 £588 £575
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £450 £438
% change year-on-year -8.89% +2.86% +12.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 29
10th Percentile £10.90 £16.12 £10.50
25th Percentile - £18.13 £16.05
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 £19.25
% change year-on-year -7.43% -4.60% +31.76%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Northamptonshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Northamptonshire

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Northamptonshire

Test 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 Test Automation within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 5 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 -3 6 £400 +68.42% 1
Test Automation
East Midlands

Test 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 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%) Architectural Design
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
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