Automation Test Analyst Contracts

Test Automation Analyst
UK

The median Test Automation Analyst daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 647 806
Rank change year-on-year +83 +159 -144
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Test Analyst 15 47 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.082% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.087% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 36 45
10th Percentile £350 £393 £356
25th Percentile £353 £416 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £425
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +35.29% -15.00%
75th Percentile £474 £709 £468
90th Percentile £495 £738 £507
UK excluding London median daily rate £365 £410 £425
% change year-on-year -10.98% -3.53% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £54.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £54.25
% change year-on-year - - +44.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

Automation Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Test Analyst in the UK

Automation Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Test Analyst in the UK

Automation Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Test Analyst over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Test Analyst in the UK

Automation Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Automation Test Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Automation Test Analyst in the UK

Automation Test Analyst
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 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
England +84 12 £456 -23.96% 5
Work from Home +106 9 £450 +5.88% 4
London +77 8 £464 -22.71% 1
UK excluding London +42 5 £365 -10.98% 4
North of England +31 2 £420 - 4
Yorkshire +20 2 £420 - 3
Midlands +17 2 £365 -8.75%
Scotland +38 1 - -
West Midlands +19 1 £350 -12.50%
East Midlands - 1 £380 -

Automation Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 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 featuring Automation Test Analyst in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 10 (66.67%) Selenium
3 6 (40.00%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 5 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 5 (33.33%) Postman
5 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
5 4 (26.67%) BDD
5 4 (26.67%) WebDriver
5 4 (26.67%) C#
5 4 (26.67%) Manual Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
5 4 (26.67%) JIRA
6 3 (20.00%) QA
6 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Performance Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Visual Studio
6 3 (20.00%) Java
6 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (20.00%) Finance
6 3 (20.00%) Back Office
6 3 (20.00%) Azure
6 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
6 3 (20.00%) DevOps
6 3 (20.00%) Appium
6 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
7 2 (13.33%) WebdriverIO

Automation Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
1 3 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (6.67%) Firebase
2 1 (6.67%) IaaS
2 1 (6.67%) PaaS
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS
2 1 (6.67%) Sauce Labs
2 1 (6.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) Selenium
2 5 (33.33%) Postman
3 4 (26.67%) JIRA
3 4 (26.67%) WebDriver
4 3 (20.00%) Appium
4 3 (20.00%) Visual Studio
5 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
5 2 (13.33%) Cypress.io
5 2 (13.33%) Git
5 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
6 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
6 1 (6.67%) JMeter
6 1 (6.67%) LoadRunner
6 1 (6.67%) Maven
6 1 (6.67%) Rational Performance Tester
6 1 (6.67%) SoapUI
6 1 (6.67%) SpecFlow
6 1 (6.67%) Subversion
6 1 (6.67%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (6.67%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Back Office
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Health Technology
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
1 2 (13.33%) NHS
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Client/Server
2 1 (6.67%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 4 (26.67%) BDD
4 4 (26.67%) Manual Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
5 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Performance Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (13.33%) API Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (13.33%) Kanban
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) QA Automation
6 2 (13.33%) SDLC
6 2 (13.33%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) C#
2 3 (20.00%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) Python
4 1 (6.67%) C++
4 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
4 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) VBA
4 1 (6.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) ISTQB
1 2 (13.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (6.67%) ISEB
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Brio
2 2 (13.33%) HP
3 1 (6.67%) Ariba
3 1 (6.67%) IBM
3 1 (6.67%) Perfecto Mobile
3 1 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow