Automation Tester Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Automation Tester
England > East Midlands

The median Automation Tester daily rate in the East Midlands is £269, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 65 69
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 +21
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 18 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.12% 0.26% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.32% 0.28% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 2 1
10th Percentile £214 - -
25th Percentile £237 £309 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £269 £319 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.54% -32.95% +18.75%
75th Percentile £348 £328 £488
90th Percentile £360 - -
England median daily rate £400 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -15.79% - +2.70%

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 777 714 799
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.63% 93.09% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 421 581
10th Percentile £200 £250 £205
25th Percentile £340 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £519 £530 £600
90th Percentile £629 £606 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 41 51
10th Percentile £16.17 £12.70 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £14.89
Median hourly rate £21.25 £24.18 £17.95
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +34.75% +2.19%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £25.42 £55.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +66.53%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Automation Tester' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Automation Tester job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Automation Tester
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Automation Tester job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Automation Tester job vacancies in the East Midlands

Automation Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Tester in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 17 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 17 October 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 - 14 £265 - 2
Leicestershire +1 4 £360 +13.03%
Automation Tester
England

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 17 October 2025, Automation Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 14 (77.78%) Java
2 14 (77.78%) Selenium
3 11 (61.11%) Cucumber
4 9 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 9 (50.00%) Test Strategy
5 8 (44.44%) jQuery
6 6 (33.33%) Agile
6 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (33.33%) SQL
6 6 (33.33%) Test Scripting
7 5 (27.78%) API Testing
7 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (27.78%) DOM
7 5 (27.78%) HTML
7 5 (27.78%) Oracle
8 4 (22.22%) REST Assured
8 4 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
9 3 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
9 3 (16.67%) AWS
9 3 (16.67%) CICS
9 3 (16.67%) COBOL
9 3 (16.67%) Code Quality
9 3 (16.67%) DB2
9 3 (16.67%) DevOps
9 3 (16.67%) Eclipse
9 3 (16.67%) Git
9 3 (16.67%) IntelliJ
9 3 (16.67%) JCL

Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) DB2
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
2 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (77.78%) Selenium
2 11 (61.11%) Cucumber
3 9 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (22.22%) REST Assured
5 3 (16.67%) Eclipse
5 3 (16.67%) Git
5 3 (16.67%) IntelliJ
5 3 (16.67%) Maven
5 3 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 7 (38.89%) Banking
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) jQuery
2 5 (27.78%) DOM
2 5 (27.78%) HTML
3 3 (16.67%) RESTful
4 2 (11.11%) REST
5 1 (5.56%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Mainframe
1 3 (16.67%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 5 (27.78%) API Testing
4 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (16.67%) Code Quality
6 3 (16.67%) DevOps
6 3 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 3 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
6 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Validation
7 2 (11.11%) Coaching
7 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) Java
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) COBOL
3 3 (16.67%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft