Test Automation Consultant Contracts

Automation Test Consultant
UK

The median Automation Test Consultant daily rate in the UK is £477 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 710 812
Rank change year-on-year +130 +102 -135
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Consultant 6 12 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.020% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.021% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 16
10th Percentile £399 £400 £350
25th Percentile £434 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £450 £444
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +1.41% +42.00%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £538
90th Percentile - £515 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 £350
% change year-on-year - +42.86% -

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 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
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 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £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 Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Consultant in the UK

Test Automation Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation Consultant in the UK

Test Automation Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation Consultant in the UK

Test Automation Consultant
Top 3 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 Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
Work from Home +124 5 £477 +19.25%
England +114 3 £427 -14.60%
London +104 3 £427 -14.60%

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Test Automation Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) Selenium
3 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) Java
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) SoapUI
4 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle
5 2 (33.33%) JUnit
5 2 (33.33%) Data Mining
5 2 (33.33%) ETL
5 2 (33.33%) IBM
5 2 (33.33%) .NET
5 2 (33.33%) Migration
5 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
5 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
5 2 (33.33%) C#
5 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 2 (33.33%) Logistics
5 2 (33.33%) IBM Sterling
5 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
5 2 (33.33%) eggPlant
5 2 (33.33%) Appium
5 2 (33.33%) TestNG
5 2 (33.33%) Git
5 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
5 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
5 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework

Test Automation Consultant 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Mining
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Selenium
2 3 (50.00%) SoapUI
3 2 (33.33%) Appium
3 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 2 (33.33%) eggPlant
3 2 (33.33%) Git
3 2 (33.33%) JUnit
3 2 (33.33%) Postman
3 2 (33.33%) REST Assured
3 2 (33.33%) SOAtest
3 2 (33.33%) TestNG
3 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
4 1 (16.67%) JMeter
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Logistics
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Order Management
3 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) ATDD
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Data Management
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Test Management
4 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (16.67%) SAP