Test Automation Contracts in Northern Ireland

Automated Testing
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 31 16
Rank change year-on-year +9 -15 +12
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 2 3 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.37% 1.49% 9.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 1.94% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £475
25th Percentile - - £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £500
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - - £550
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £532
% change year-on-year -7.27% +3.38% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £61.25 £65.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -6.84% +19.55% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 110 155 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 75.34% 76.73% 82.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 80 91
10th Percentile £211 £160 £145
25th Percentile £352 £267 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £406 £438
Median % change year-on-year +26.15% -7.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £594 £504 £500
90th Percentile £668 £624 £550
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 11
10th Percentile - £13.40 £10.22
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.91 £10.26
Median hourly rate £13.94 £15.25 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% -3.11% +16.59%
75th Percentile £23.54 £16.78 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £18.12 -
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Northern Ireland

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Northern Ireland

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 3 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
County Antrim +2 2 - - 7
Test Automation
UK

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) NUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation Tester
1 2 (100.00%) QA Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) QA