Test Automation Engineer Contracts in Coventry

Automation Test Engineer
West Midlands > Coventry

The median Automation Test Engineer daily rate in Coventry is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 1.64% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.89% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £456 - -
25th Percentile £466 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £516 - -
90th Percentile £529 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £450 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Coventry

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Coventry. 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 Coventry with a recognized job title 106 100 221
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.89% 98.04% 96.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 75 154
10th Percentile £206 £275 £251
25th Percentile £263 £375 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £566 £619 £538
90th Percentile £640 £675 £634
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £15.50
25th Percentile - £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate - £17.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year - -26.79% +54.80%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £28.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £19.59 £20.50
% change year-on-year +24.25% -4.44% +13.89%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Engineer in Coventry

Test Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation Engineer in Coventry

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry

For the 6 months to 5 August 2025, 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 Coventry region featuring Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Retail

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
9 Test Automation Engineer jobs in the West Midlands