Automation Test Lead Contracts

Test Automation Leader
UK

The median Test Automation Leader daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 686 801
Rank change year-on-year +106 +115 -141
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Test Lead 18 33 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.055% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.058% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 23 35
10th Percentile £400 £405 £416
25th Percentile £406 £513 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £579 £650 £588
90th Percentile £603 £685 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate - £551 £463
% change year-on-year - +19.19% -0.27%

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 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Automation Test Lead
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Test Lead in the UK

Automation Test Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Test Lead in the UK

Automation Test Lead
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Test Lead over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Test Lead in the UK

Automation Test Lead
Top 8 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 Lead within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +109 11 £500 -13.04% 6
Work from Home +129 9 £490 -12.89% 4
London +85 6 £500 -16.67% 4
UK excluding London +62 5 - - 4
South West - 3 - -
North of England +30 1 - -
South East +25 1 - - 2
Yorkshire +20 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 featuring Automation Test Lead in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (44.44%) JIRA
3 7 (38.89%) Test Strategy
4 6 (33.33%) Selenium
4 6 (33.33%) Agile
5 5 (27.78%) Windows
5 5 (27.78%) Finance
5 5 (27.78%) Azure
5 5 (27.78%) DevOps
5 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
6 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (22.22%) Cypress.io
6 4 (22.22%) Java
6 4 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (22.22%) Test Scripting
7 3 (16.67%) Git
7 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
7 3 (16.67%) QA
7 3 (16.67%) Fortinet
7 3 (16.67%) Windows 2000
7 3 (16.67%) Python
7 3 (16.67%) Windows XP
7 3 (16.67%) VMS
7 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (16.67%) Firewall
7 3 (16.67%) Unix
7 3 (16.67%) Juniper
7 3 (16.67%) Shell Script
7 3 (16.67%) Cucumber

Automation Test Lead 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 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (5.56%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.56%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) JIRA
2 6 (33.33%) Selenium
3 4 (22.22%) Cypress.io
4 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 3 (16.67%) Git
5 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
5 2 (11.11%) Postman
6 1 (5.56%) JMeter
6 1 (5.56%) NUnit
6 1 (5.56%) TestRail
6 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Marketing
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Advertising
3 1 (5.56%) Electronics
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (11.11%) Playwright
1 2 (11.11%) REST
1 2 (11.11%) SOAP
2 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.56%) Gherkin
2 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Unix
2 3 (16.67%) VMS
2 3 (16.67%) Windows 2000
2 3 (16.67%) Windows XP
3 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (38.89%) Test Strategy
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
4 5 (27.78%) DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (22.22%) Test Scripting
5 4 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
7 2 (11.11%) BDD
7 2 (11.11%) Cash Management
7 2 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (11.11%) ERP
7 2 (11.11%) System Integration Testing
7 2 (11.11%) Test Planning
7 2 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Java
2 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (16.67%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (11.11%) vSphere
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Ansible
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Fortinet
1 3 (16.67%) Juniper
2 2 (11.11%) Citrix
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) SAP
2 2 (11.11%) UiPath
2 2 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce