QA Automation Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring QA Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 - -

All Process & 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 773 437 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 84.39% 87.05% 81.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 294 406
10th Percentile £313 £163 £235
25th Percentile £402 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% +1.68% -5.00%
75th Percentile £587 £588 £580
90th Percentile £686 £689 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £480 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -0.62% -3.40% -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 31 43
10th Percentile £14.46 - £13.25
25th Percentile £19.34 £12.62 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.05 £16.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.53% -38.46% +25.57%
75th Percentile £69.06 £26.51 £47.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £30.29 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £34.18 £22.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year +55.02% -2.00% -

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QA Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

QA Automation job vacancy trend in Birmingham

QA Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing QA Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing QA Automation

QA Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stress Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus