Automation Tester Contracts with Work from Home Options

Automation Tester
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation Tester daily rate in Work from Home is £425 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 307 392 419
Rank change year-on-year +85 +27 -59
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 45 74 215
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.29% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.31% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 56 187
10th Percentile £356 £328 £360
25th Percentile £363 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £500 £530 £538
90th Percentile £538 £550 £597
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £470
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +10.59%
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 median hourly rate - - £56.58

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,070 24,019 42,133
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.35% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,440 16,961 30,444
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £721
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 547 600
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.71 £19.19
Median hourly rate £45.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +52.43% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.95 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.51 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

Automation Tester
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Automation Tester trend for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Tester
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Automation Tester.

Automation Tester daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Tester
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Automation Tester over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Automation Tester daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 12 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 19 (42.22%) Selenium
3 13 (28.89%) Cypress.io
3 13 (28.89%) Agile
4 12 (26.67%) Java
4 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
5 10 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 10 (22.22%) C#
5 10 (22.22%) QA
5 10 (22.22%) Azure
5 10 (22.22%) Cucumber
6 9 (20.00%) DevOps
6 9 (20.00%) AWS
6 9 (20.00%) WebDriver
6 9 (20.00%) Python
6 9 (20.00%) SQL
6 9 (20.00%) API Testing
7 8 (17.78%) Banking
7 8 (17.78%) Test Scripting
7 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
7 8 (17.78%) Jenkins
8 7 (15.56%) BDD
8 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared
8 7 (15.56%) Scrum
8 7 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (13.33%) REST Assured
9 6 (13.33%) Postman
9 6 (13.33%) Microservices
9 6 (13.33%) TypeScript

Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) BASE24
1 1 (2.22%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.22%) Azure
2 9 (20.00%) AWS
3 7 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.67%) GitHub
4 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (4.44%) BrowserStack
5 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (2.22%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (2.22%) dbt
6 1 (2.22%) Firebase
6 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.44%) Power BI
3 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.22%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.22%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 19 (42.22%) Selenium
2 13 (28.89%) Cypress.io
3 10 (22.22%) Cucumber
4 9 (20.00%) WebDriver
5 8 (17.78%) Jenkins
6 6 (13.33%) JMeter
6 6 (13.33%) Postman
6 6 (13.33%) REST Assured
6 6 (13.33%) SoapUI
7 5 (11.11%) Git
8 4 (8.89%) GitLab
8 4 (8.89%) JUnit
9 3 (6.67%) Maven
9 3 (6.67%) TestNG
10 2 (4.44%) Appium
10 2 (4.44%) Gradle
10 2 (4.44%) Mocha
10 2 (4.44%) SpecFlow
11 1 (2.22%) JIRA
11 1 (2.22%) TestComplete
General
1 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Banking
3 6 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Investment Banking
4 4 (8.89%) Finance
4 4 (8.89%) Front Office
5 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Back Office
6 2 (4.44%) Wholesale Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.22%) Local Government
7 1 (2.22%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) REST
2 4 (8.89%) Gherkin
2 4 (8.89%) Playwright
3 3 (6.67%) Chai
3 3 (6.67%) Jest
3 3 (6.67%) Middleware
3 3 (6.67%) Web Services
4 2 (4.44%) .NET
4 2 (4.44%) JAXB
4 2 (4.44%) JAX-RS
4 2 (4.44%) Node.js
4 2 (4.44%) React
4 2 (4.44%) SOAP
4 2 (4.44%) Spring
4 2 (4.44%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.22%) JSON
5 1 (2.22%) OAuth
5 1 (2.22%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.22%) RESTful
5 1 (2.22%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.22%) EMV
2 1 (2.22%) Equities
2 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (28.89%) Agile
3 9 (20.00%) API Testing
3 9 (20.00%) DevOps
4 8 (17.78%) Test Scripting
5 7 (15.56%) BDD
5 7 (15.56%) Scrum
6 6 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 6 (13.33%) Microservices
6 6 (13.33%) SDET
6 6 (13.33%) Test Strategy
7 4 (8.89%) Performance Testing
7 4 (8.89%) QA Automation
7 4 (8.89%) Software Testing
7 4 (8.89%) Validation
8 3 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (6.67%) CRM
8 3 (6.67%) Test Planning
8 3 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.67%) Java
2 10 (22.22%) C#
2 10 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 9 (20.00%) Python
3 9 (20.00%) SQL
4 6 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.44%) C
6 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Degree
3 1 (2.22%) ISEB
3 1 (2.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.22%) QA
2 4 (8.89%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.22%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Oracle
3 2 (4.44%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.44%) SAP
3 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.22%) FIS
4 1 (2.22%) Fiserv
4 1 (2.22%) IBM
4 1 (2.22%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (2.22%) NEC
4 1 (2.22%) VocaLink
4 1 (2.22%) Wincor Nixdorf
4 1 (2.22%) WorldPay