Automation Tester Contracts in the East Midlands

Automation Tester
England > East Midlands

The median Automation Tester daily rate in the East Midlands is £250, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 61 78
Rank change year-on-year +6 +17 +13
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 1 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.19% 0.65% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.69% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £362 £347
25th Percentile - £371 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £400 £380
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +5.26% -13.14%
75th Percentile - £428 £390
90th Percentile - £437 £514
England median daily rate £465 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.21% - +5.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 472 725 980
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.06% 93.79% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 483 754
10th Percentile £200 £163 £213
25th Percentile £350 £258 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -8.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £565
90th Percentile £600 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 79 62
10th Percentile £11.44 £11.81 £11.80
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.00 £15.35
Median hourly rate £23.21 £17.50 £20.36
Median % change year-on-year +32.60% -14.05% +19.03%
75th Percentile £28.79 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £35.38 £51.91 £64.50
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings that featured Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in the East Midlands

Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Tester in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Automation Tester in the East Midlands

Automation Tester
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Tester within the East Midlands 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
Northamptonshire -5 1 £250 -37.50%
Automation Tester
England

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 12 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Automation Tester 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 East Midlands region featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving

Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java