QA Automation Analyst Contracts

Automation QA Analyst
UK

The median Automation QA Analyst daily rate in the UK is £463 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 583 682 858
Rank change year-on-year +99 +176 -168
Contract jobs requiring a QA Automation Analyst 3 16 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.028% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.029% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 6
10th Percentile £375 £550 £338
25th Percentile £406 £584 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £675 £448
Median % change year-on-year -31.48% +50.84% -
75th Percentile £509 £738 £483
90th Percentile £534 - £556
UK excluding London median daily rate £380 - £350

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%

QA Automation Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Analyst in the UK

QA Automation Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for QA Automation Analyst in the UK

QA Automation Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Automation Analyst over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Automation Analyst in the UK

QA Automation Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Automation Analyst in the UK

QA Automation Analyst
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation 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
Work from Home +114 3 £463 -33.93% 2
England +96 3 £463 -31.48%
London +79 2 £506 -25.00%
East Midlands - 1 £380 -
Midlands - 1 £380 -
UK excluding London - 1 £380 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, QA Automation 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 QA Automation Analyst in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (33.33%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (33.33%) Tricentis Tosca
3 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (33.33%) Appium
3 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Firebase
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (33.33%) Ariba
3 1 (33.33%) JMeter
3 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing

QA Automation 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (33.33%) Firebase
1 1 (33.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Appium
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) WebdriverIO
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Ariba
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow