Automation Test Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Automation Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Test Automation Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 438 478
Rank change year-on-year +54 +40 -69
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Test Analyst 4 15 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.064% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.068% 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 24
10th Percentile - £345 £358
25th Percentile - £359 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £410 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% -3.53% +13.33%
75th Percentile £378 £438 £450
90th Percentile £394 £509 £473
UK median daily rate £415 £600 £425
% change year-on-year -30.83% +41.18% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £54.25
UK median hourly rate - - £54.25
% change year-on-year - - +44.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,947 22,165 29,135
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,483 20,411
10th Percentile £213 £225 £202
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,449
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.03
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

Automation Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Automation Test Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

Automation Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Test Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Automation Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

Automation Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Automation Test Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Automation Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

Automation Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Test Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Midlands +29 2 £365 -8.75%
Scotland +40 1 - -
North of England +24 1 £350 - 2
Yorkshire +21 1 £350 - 1
West Midlands +15 1 £350 -12.50%
East Midlands - 1 £380 -
Automation Test Analyst
UK

Automation Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Automation Test Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Automation Test Analyst in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Selenium
3 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (50.00%) Git
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Health Technology
4 1 (25.00%) Postman
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (25.00%) SaaS
4 1 (25.00%) PaaS

Automation Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (25.00%) Subversion
3 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Health Technology
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) QA Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (25.00%) SOA
4 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VBA
2 1 (25.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (25.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Brio
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow