QA Automation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 418 488
Rank change year-on-year +39 +70 -67
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 17 29 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.083% 0.12% 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.098% 0.14% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 16
10th Percentile £472 £363 £381
25th Percentile £500 £405 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £431 £475
Median % change year-on-year +53.71% -9.26% +35.71%
75th Percentile £694 £474 £528
90th Percentile - £548 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - - £68.17
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £68.17
% change year-on-year - - +81.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

QA 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in the UK excluding London

QA Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Automation in the UK excluding London

QA Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Automation in the UK excluding London

QA Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Automation in the UK excluding London

QA Automation
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 QA Automation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +34 13 £663 +19.05% 1
North West +20 12 £663 +17.67%
Midlands +31 1 £380 -16.94%
East Midlands +23 1 £380 +2.70%
South East +23 1 £475 +15.15% 2
Wales - 1 £490 -
East of England - 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
QA Automation
UK

QA Automation
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Amazon EC2
1 9 (52.94%) Amazon S3
1 9 (52.94%) Amazon SQS
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) Amazon ECR
2 8 (47.06%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (47.06%) Route 53
2 8 (47.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (17.65%) GitHub
4 2 (11.76%) Azure
4 2 (11.76%) BrowserStack
4 2 (11.76%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Big Data
3 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) GitLab
2 8 (47.06%) webpack
3 3 (17.65%) Cucumber
3 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 3 (17.65%) JIRA
3 3 (17.65%) Selenium
4 2 (11.76%) Appium
4 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
4 2 (11.76%) Git
4 2 (11.76%) Postman
5 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.88%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (5.88%) SoapUI
5 1 (5.88%) SpecFlow
5 1 (5.88%) XCUITest
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Lead
2 4 (23.53%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) QA Automation Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) QA Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Technical Leader
3 3 (17.65%) Tester
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Automation Tester
5 1 (5.88%) ETL Tester
5 1 (5.88%) QA Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) QA Automation Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) QA Automation Tester
5 1 (5.88%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) QA Tester
5 1 (5.88%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) Express.js
1 8 (47.06%) Node.js
1 8 (47.06%) React
1 8 (47.06%) Redux
2 2 (11.76%) Playwright
2 2 (11.76%) pytest
2 2 (11.76%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
1 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Test Automation
2 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
3 9 (52.94%) End-to-End Testing
3 9 (52.94%) ETL
4 8 (47.06%) API Development
4 8 (47.06%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 8 (47.06%) Containerisation
4 8 (47.06%) Customer Engagement
4 8 (47.06%) Front End Development
4 8 (47.06%) Full Stack Development
5 5 (29.41%) Agile
6 4 (23.53%) DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
7 3 (17.65%) API Testing
7 3 (17.65%) BDD
7 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (11.76%) Performance Testing
8 2 (11.76%) Scrum
8 2 (11.76%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) C#
1 3 (17.65%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow