Automation Tester Contracts

Automation Tester
UK

The median Automation Tester daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 475 542 521
Rank change year-on-year +67 -21 -43
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 103 174 367
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.29% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.31% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 130 305
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £363 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £473
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +0.42% +11.29%
75th Percentile £525 £530 £525
90th Percentile £688 £588 £571
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £428 £450
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.89% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £45.06
25th Percentile - - £48.90
Median hourly rate - - £56.58
75th Percentile - - £63.06
90th Percentile - - £66.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £56.58

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 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £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 £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 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
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 £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in the UK

Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Tester in the UK

Automation Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Tester over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Tester in the UK

Automation Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Automation Tester in the UK

Automation Tester
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Tester within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 +36 80 £463 -2.63% 12
Work from Home +104 50 £425 -10.53% 9
London +91 48 £500 - 4
UK excluding London +9 39 £413 -3.62% 7
North of England +16 21 £440 +3.53% 2
Yorkshire +18 13 £458 +4.57% 2
North West +19 7 £425 -
Scotland +32 6 £375 -16.67% 1
Midlands +25 6 £390 - 2
East Midlands +17 5 £400 +5.26% 1
South East +2 3 £450 +7.14% 1
Northern Ireland +8 2 - -
North East +16 1 £310 -35.75%
West Midlands +15 1 £203 -59.50% 1
Wales - 1 £509 -

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Automation Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 103 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 49 (47.57%) Selenium
3 41 (39.81%) Java
4 39 (37.86%) Agile
5 29 (28.16%) C#
6 27 (26.21%) JavaScript
7 22 (21.36%) Cypress.io
7 22 (21.36%) Social Skills
8 20 (19.42%) CI/CD
8 20 (19.42%) Cucumber
9 19 (18.45%) Banking
10 18 (17.48%) QA
10 18 (17.48%) Python
11 17 (16.50%) Test Scripting
11 17 (16.50%) DevOps
12 16 (15.53%) BDD
12 16 (15.53%) AWS
13 15 (14.56%) Azure
13 15 (14.56%) Test Strategy
13 15 (14.56%) Jenkins
14 14 (13.59%) WebDriver
14 14 (13.59%) API Testing
14 14 (13.59%) SQL
15 13 (12.62%) REST
16 12 (11.65%) Postman
16 12 (11.65%) Regression Testing
16 12 (11.65%) Git
17 11 (10.68%) TypeScript
17 11 (10.68%) Functional Testing
17 11 (10.68%) Playwright

Automation Tester 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:

Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) BASE24
1 1 (0.97%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 16 (15.53%) AWS
2 15 (14.56%) Azure
3 9 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (6.80%) GitHub
5 3 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.91%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.94%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.94%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (1.94%) Figma
6 2 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.97%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.97%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.97%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.97%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (0.97%) dbt
7 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.91%) Internet
2 1 (0.97%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.83%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.94%) Power BI
3 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.97%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.97%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 49 (47.57%) Selenium
2 22 (21.36%) Cypress.io
3 20 (19.42%) Cucumber
4 15 (14.56%) Jenkins
5 14 (13.59%) WebDriver
6 12 (11.65%) Git
6 12 (11.65%) Postman
7 10 (9.71%) REST Assured
8 9 (8.74%) JIRA
9 8 (7.77%) JUnit
9 8 (7.77%) SpecFlow
10 7 (6.80%) JMeter
10 7 (6.80%) SoapUI
11 6 (5.83%) TestNG
12 5 (4.85%) Maven
13 4 (3.88%) GitLab
13 4 (3.88%) NUnit
14 3 (2.91%) Appium
14 3 (2.91%) Gatling
14 3 (2.91%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (21.36%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.45%) Banking
3 9 (8.74%) Finance
3 9 (8.74%) Investment Banking
4 7 (6.80%) Front Office
4 7 (6.80%) Prime Brokerage
5 6 (5.83%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.85%) Back Office
6 5 (4.85%) Wholesale Banking
7 4 (3.88%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.97%) Local Government
9 1 (0.97%) Retail
9 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.62%) REST
2 11 (10.68%) Playwright
3 8 (7.77%) .NET
4 6 (5.83%) Gherkin
5 5 (4.85%) JSON
5 5 (4.85%) Web Services
5 5 (4.85%) WebdriverIO
6 4 (3.88%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.91%) ADO
7 3 (2.91%) Chai
7 3 (2.91%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (2.91%) Jest
7 3 (2.91%) Node.js
7 3 (2.91%) pytest
7 3 (2.91%) RESTful
7 3 (2.91%) Spring
7 3 (2.91%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.91%) XML
8 2 (1.94%) Middleware
8 2 (1.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.77%) Equities
2 6 (5.83%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.88%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.97%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.97%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.97%) EMV
6 1 (0.97%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.91%) Unix
2 2 (1.94%) Android
2 2 (1.94%) Linux
3 1 (0.97%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 39 (37.86%) Agile
3 20 (19.42%) CI/CD
4 17 (16.50%) DevOps
4 17 (16.50%) Test Scripting
5 16 (15.53%) BDD
6 15 (14.56%) Test Strategy
7 14 (13.59%) API Testing
8 12 (11.65%) Regression Testing
9 11 (10.68%) Functional Testing
10 10 (9.71%) Manual Testing
10 10 (9.71%) Scrum
11 9 (8.74%) End-to-End Testing
11 9 (8.74%) Microservices
11 9 (8.74%) Scenario Testing
11 9 (8.74%) User Acceptance Testing
12 8 (7.77%) Exploratory Testing
12 8 (7.77%) Fintech
12 8 (7.77%) Performance Testing
12 8 (7.77%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 41 (39.81%) Java
2 29 (28.16%) C#
3 27 (26.21%) JavaScript
4 18 (17.48%) Python
5 14 (13.59%) SQL
6 11 (10.68%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.91%) C
7 3 (2.91%) Scala
8 1 (0.97%) Bash
8 1 (0.97%) Groovy
8 1 (0.97%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (9.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.74%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.94%) Degree
3 2 (1.94%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.97%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (17.48%) QA
2 10 (9.71%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.83%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.97%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 5 (4.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.97%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (4.85%) ServiceNow
2 4 (3.88%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.91%) Oracle
3 3 (2.91%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.91%) Wind River
4 2 (1.94%) SAP
4 2 (1.94%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.97%) Adobe
5 1 (0.97%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.97%) FIS
5 1 (0.97%) Fiserv
5 1 (0.97%) Google
5 1 (0.97%) IBM
5 1 (0.97%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (0.97%) NEC
5 1 (0.97%) Qualtrics
5 1 (0.97%) Splunk
5 1 (0.97%) VocaLink
5 1 (0.97%) Wincor Nixdorf
5 1 (0.97%) WorldPay