Test Automation Contracts in Birmingham

Automated Testing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 54 63
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 -22
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 4 22 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.52% 2.47% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 2.86% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 24
10th Percentile £238 £288 £313
25th Percentile £318 £441 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £536 £430
Median % change year-on-year -27.74% +24.71% +7.50%
75th Percentile £464 £653 £567
90th Percentile £579 £743 £638
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £519 £440
% change year-on-year -18.07% +17.90% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Test 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 617 770 1,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 80.55% 86.61% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 511 853
10th Percentile £235 £263 £250
25th Percentile £373 £399 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £581 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £706 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £495
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 33 18
10th Percentile £13.33 £12.10 £12.72
25th Percentile £18.50 £12.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £27.25 £20.71 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +31.61% +20.03% +9.52%
75th Percentile £47.94 £28.75 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £52.25 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
% change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Birmingham

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Birmingham

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Birmingham over the 6 months to 23 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Birmingham

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Birmingham

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (25.00%) QA Team Leader
1 1 (25.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (25.00%) Team Leader
1 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) API Testing
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
1 1 (25.00%) Rancher
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Guidewire
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) VMware