Test Automation Contracts in Warrington

Automated Testing
Cheshire > Warrington

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Warrington with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 22 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warrington 2.38% 4.21% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 4.82% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £425 -
Cheshire median daily rate £510 £445 £451
% change year-on-year +14.61% -1.33% +12.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Warrington

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Warrington with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73 83 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warrington 86.90% 87.37% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 50 34
10th Percentile £158 £200 £190
25th Percentile £275 £266 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £433
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -1.73% -1.70%
75th Percentile £503 £550 £538
90th Percentile £576 £650 £560
Cheshire median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 9
10th Percentile £10.93 - £9.90
25th Percentile £11.00 - £10.66
Median hourly rate £14.00 £36.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.11% +105.71% -63.16%
75th Percentile £26.66 - £23.75
90th Percentile £32.16 - £50.00
Cheshire median hourly rate £26.66 £27.98 £23.50
% change year-on-year -4.72% +19.06% -22.79%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Warrington.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Warrington

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Warrington

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Warrington

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Warrington 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Complexity Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Information Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes