Test Automation Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Automation Test Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Automation Test Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £411 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 119 131
Rank change year-on-year +24 +12 -41
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 7 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.42% 0.18% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.18% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 5
10th Percentile £398 £415 £383
25th Percentile £405 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -25.23% +15.79% +18.38%
75th Percentile £423 £575 £488
90th Percentile £428 - -
England median daily rate £435 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -17.14% +10.53% +11.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,530 2,179 2,691
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.45% 95.44% 97.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 955 1,481 1,978
10th Percentile £213 £235 £206
25th Percentile £375 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 33 103
10th Percentile £11.19 £11.05 £10.71
25th Percentile £12.32 £13.16 £12.04
Median hourly rate £14.25 £21.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.72% +22.86% -7.89%
75th Percentile £23.75 £49.40 £22.40
90th Percentile £48.75 £68.75 £26.22
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Engineer in Yorkshire

Test Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation Engineer in Yorkshire

Test Automation Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
West Yorkshire +33 4 £410 - 1
South Yorkshire +2 1 £390 -29.09%
North Yorkshire - 1 £425 -
Test Automation Engineer
England

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Test Automation Engineer 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 across the Yorkshire region featuring Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (85.71%) C#
2 6 (85.71%) Selenium
3 5 (71.43%) Finance
3 5 (71.43%) Agile
4 4 (57.14%) Wind River
5 3 (42.86%) .NET
6 2 (28.57%) Java
6 2 (28.57%) Open Source
6 2 (28.57%) DevOps
6 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (14.29%) Terraform
7 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (14.29%) Business Case
7 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
7 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
7 1 (14.29%) Appium
7 1 (14.29%) pytest
7 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
7 1 (14.29%) SDLC
7 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
7 1 (14.29%) RESTful
7 1 (14.29%) AWS
7 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
7 1 (14.29%) Confluence
7 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
7 1 (14.29%) BDD

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) Appium
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) JMeter
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) TestNG
2 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) pytest
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) BDD
4 1 (14.29%) Business Case
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (14.29%) Functional Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) Test Management
4 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
4 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Wind River