QA Automation Contracts in Birmingham

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring QA Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA Automation over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.18% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate - - £500
% change year-on-year - - -39.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

QA Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 492 600 749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.93% 79.68% 83.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 413 506
10th Percentile £163 £232 £263
25th Percentile £355 £381 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -5.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £572 £594 £620
90th Percentile £675 £705 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 25 27
10th Percentile - £13.55 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.62 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £26.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.42% +8.33% +38.33%
75th Percentile £22.08 £45.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £26.51 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.05 £19.00 £25.13
% change year-on-year +16.05% -24.38% +43.57%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in Birmingham

QA Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Automation in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for QA Automation in Birmingham

QA Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA