Automation Test Lead Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Automation Leader
UK > UK excluding London

As of 11 May 2024, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Test Automation Leader daily rate in the UK excluding London.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 438 492
Rank change year-on-year +53 +54 -78
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Test Lead 5 5 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.021% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.023% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 13
10th Percentile - £440 £425
25th Percentile - £500 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £563 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +18.42% -3.99%
75th Percentile - £638 £565
90th Percentile - £649 £585
UK median daily rate £450 £600 £545
% change year-on-year -25.00% +10.09% +24.57%

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 18,948 22,031 29,122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 15,391 20,383
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
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 £597 £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 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.16
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% +6.27%

Automation Test Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Automation Test Lead
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 Lead within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South West - 3 - -
North of England +34 1 - -
Yorkshire +17 1 - -
South East +17 1 - -
Automation Test Lead
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Automation Test Lead 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 Lead in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) Windows 2000
3 3 (60.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (60.00%) VMS
3 3 (60.00%) Juniper
3 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (60.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) Unix
3 3 (60.00%) Fortinet
3 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 3 (60.00%) Virtual Environments
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Ansible
3 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) vSphere
4 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 2 (40.00%) VMware
5 1 (20.00%) ERP
5 1 (20.00%) Oracle

Automation Test Lead 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (20.00%) JMeter
3 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Unix
2 3 (60.00%) VMS
2 3 (60.00%) Windows 2000
2 3 (60.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Cash Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (20.00%) ERP
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Supplier Management
4 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (60.00%) Juniper
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle