Test Automation Contracts in County Antrim

Automated Testing
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 24 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +5
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 4 2 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 3.05% 1.21% 9.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 1.50% 10.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile - - £473
25th Percentile - - £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £500
75th Percentile - - £525
90th Percentile - - £550
Northern Ireland median daily rate £500 - £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate - - £19.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 98 133 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 74.81% 80.61% 83.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 69 82
10th Percentile £210 £170 £145
25th Percentile £328 £258 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £435
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -8.05% +8.75%
75th Percentile £575 £515 £500
90th Percentile £663 £638 £549
Northern Ireland median daily rate £500 £400 £438
% change year-on-year +25.00% -8.57% +6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 11
10th Percentile - £13.30 £10.22
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.87 £10.26
Median hourly rate £14.19 £15.50 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% -1.52% +21.08%
75th Percentile £25.22 £17.00 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £18.33 -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £13.94 £15.50 £15.74
% change year-on-year -10.06% -1.52% +12.43%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in County Antrim

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in County Antrim

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 25 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
Belfast +6 4 £500 - 8
Test Automation
Northern Ireland

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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 (25.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
1 2 (50.00%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) Maven
1 2 (50.00%) NUnit
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe Architect
1 2 (50.00%) QA Automation Tester
1 2 (50.00%) QA Tester
1 2 (50.00%) Test Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (50.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) System Testing
3 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Batch Processing
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) COBOL
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Assembly Language
2 1 (25.00%) JCL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM