Automation Test Analyst Contracts

Test Automation Analyst
UK

The median Test Automation Analyst daily rate in the UK is £415 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 572 651 809
Rank change year-on-year +79 +158 -159
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Test Analyst 14 47 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.081% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.085% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 35 44
10th Percentile £325 £389 £356
25th Percentile £350 £415 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year -30.83% +41.18% -10.53%
75th Percentile £472 £719 £464
90th Percentile £483 £738 £495
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £410 £425
% change year-on-year -14.63% -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 39,893 55,060 83,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,957 38,445 58,715
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,534 2,047
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%

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 12 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 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
England +76 10 £456 -23.96% 4
Work from Home +106 9 £450 +5.88% 3
London +68 7 £465 -22.50% 1
UK excluding London +54 4 £350 -14.63% 2
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 Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring Automation Test Analyst in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 10 (71.43%) Selenium
3 7 (50.00%) Agile
4 6 (42.86%) Postman
5 5 (35.71%) BDD
5 5 (35.71%) Test Scripting
5 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
6 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
6 4 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (28.57%) Manual Testing
6 4 (28.57%) Software Testing
6 4 (28.57%) JIRA
6 4 (28.57%) Azure
7 3 (21.43%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
7 3 (21.43%) Accessibility
7 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
7 3 (21.43%) WebdriverIO
7 3 (21.43%) WebDriver
7 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
7 3 (21.43%) DevOps
7 3 (21.43%) Appium
7 3 (21.43%) QA
7 3 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (21.43%) Performance Testing
7 3 (21.43%) Test Management
7 3 (21.43%) Java
7 3 (21.43%) C#
7 3 (21.43%) Finance
7 3 (21.43%) Visual Studio

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 (7.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (7.14%) Firebase
3 1 (7.14%) IaaS
3 1 (7.14%) PaaS
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Sauce Labs
3 1 (7.14%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Selenium
2 6 (42.86%) Postman
3 4 (28.57%) JIRA
4 3 (21.43%) Appium
4 3 (21.43%) Visual Studio
4 3 (21.43%) WebDriver
5 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
5 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
5 2 (14.29%) Git
5 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
5 2 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (7.14%) JMeter
6 1 (7.14%) LoadRunner
6 1 (7.14%) Rational Performance Tester
6 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
6 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
6 1 (7.14%) Subversion
6 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
6 1 (7.14%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Back Office
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Health Technology
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) WebdriverIO
2 2 (14.29%) Playwright
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Client/Server
2 1 (7.14%) NHS
2 1 (7.14%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) BDD
3 5 (35.71%) Test Scripting
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (28.57%) Manual Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Software Testing
5 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Test Management
5 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
5 3 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) QA Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (14.29%) SDLC
6 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 3 (21.43%) C#
2 3 (21.43%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) C++
3 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
3 1 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) VBA
3 1 (7.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
1 2 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (7.14%) ISEB
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Accessibility
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) HP
3 1 (7.14%) Ariba
3 1 (7.14%) Brio
3 1 (7.14%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) Perfecto Mobile
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow