Test Automation Contracts in Salford

Automated Testing
Manchester > Salford

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Salford 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 - 8
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Salford 8.70% - 11.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.76% - 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £428 - £274
25th Percentile £431 - £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £340
75th Percentile £444 - £468
90th Percentile £448 - £532
Manchester median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +19.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Salford

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 Salford with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17 40 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Salford 73.91% 100.00% 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 32 23
10th Percentile £299 £413 £273
25th Percentile £375 £500 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £448
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +34.08% -8.21%
75th Percentile - £641 £558
90th Percentile £440 £699 £575
Manchester median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.35 - -
Median hourly rate £26.52 £35.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.23% +29.63% +61.17%
75th Percentile £27.69 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £18.06
% change year-on-year -25.71% +93.83% +11.26%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Salford

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Salford

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Salford

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Salford

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Salford 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%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) Puppeteer
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA