Test Automation Contracts in Derbyshire

Automated Testing
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derbyshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derbyshire 4.12% - 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% - 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £319
25th Percentile - - £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £400
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £444 £419 £375
% change year-on-year +5.91% +11.73% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 77 110 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 79.38% 64.71% 87.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 73 102
10th Percentile £172 £167 £134
25th Percentile £200 £200 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £267 £469
Median % change year-on-year +59.18% -43.04% +17.19%
75th Percentile £550 £438 £552
90th Percentile £644 £588 £638
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 37
10th Percentile £15.06 £12.13 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.30 £17.50 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +27.40% +3.98% -15.85%
75th Percentile £24.30 £22.57 £23.00
90th Percentile £24.81 £26.15 £65.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Derbyshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Derbyshire

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Derbyshire

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Derby - 4 - - 12
Test Automation
East Midlands

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Chocolatey
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Product Backlog
3 2 (50.00%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Test Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
4 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Kanban
4 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle