Test Automation Manager Contracts

Automation Test Manager
UK

The median Automation Test Manager daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 697 849
Rank change year-on-year +117 +152 -175
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Manager 11 10 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.017% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.018% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 10
10th Percentile £378 £500 £511
25th Percentile £488 £520 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £606 £528
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% +14.93% +20.57%
75th Percentile £666 £652 £644
90th Percentile £688 £678 £677
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £563 £525
% change year-on-year +20.00% +7.14% +20.00%

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 40,491 57,026 85,241
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,430 39,779 59,788
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,635 1,621 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.99 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Test Automation Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Manager in the UK

Test Automation Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation Manager in the UK

Test Automation Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation Manager over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation Manager in the UK

Test Automation Manager
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 Test Automation Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +117 10 £600 +10.34% 1
Work from Home +125 8 £450 -28.71%
UK excluding London +56 7 £675 +20.00%
London +103 3 £450 -30.77% 1
South East +20 3 - -
South West - 2 - -
North of England +28 1 £675 -
Yorkshire +18 1 £675 -
Midlands - 1 £675 -
West Midlands - 1 £675 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Test Automation Manager 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 Test Automation Manager in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Selenium
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) SpecFlow
3 5 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) Test Strategy
5 3 (27.27%) Postman
5 3 (27.27%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (27.27%) JIRA
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) Retail
6 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Migration
6 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (18.18%) Firewall
6 2 (18.18%) Unix
6 2 (18.18%) Windows
6 2 (18.18%) Windows 2000
6 2 (18.18%) C#
6 2 (18.18%) SQL
6 2 (18.18%) Windows XP
6 2 (18.18%) VMS
6 2 (18.18%) Juniper
6 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
6 2 (18.18%) Fortinet
6 2 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Ansible
6 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
6 2 (18.18%) QA

Test Automation Manager 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Selenium
2 5 (45.45%) SpecFlow
3 3 (27.27%) JIRA
3 3 (27.27%) Postman
4 1 (9.09%) Appium
General
1 2 (18.18%) Retail
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) EPoS
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Unix
1 2 (18.18%) VMS
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows 2000
1 2 (18.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Test Strategy
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (18.18%) SDET
5 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Virtual Environments
6 1 (9.09%) Compatibility Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Facilities Management
6 1 (9.09%) Integration Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Test Management
6 1 (9.09%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) C#
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
1 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
1 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
1 1 (9.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Fortinet
1 2 (18.18%) Juniper
2 1 (9.09%) VMware