Test Automation Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Automation Test Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Automation Test Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £313, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 - 61
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.11% - 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £414
25th Percentile £311 - £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - £440
75th Percentile £314 - £445
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £435 £520 £455
% change year-on-year -16.35% +14.29% -1.62%

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 822 652 738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.74% 92.88% 94.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 373 529
10th Percentile £185 £250 £200
25th Percentile £341 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £518 £538 £575
90th Percentile £626 £636 £696
England median daily rate £505 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.81% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 34 52
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.76 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £15.13
Median hourly rate £21.13 £24.09 £17.83
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% +35.09% +4.13%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.13 £28.75
90th Percentile £25.92 £53.50 £64.10
England median hourly rate £25.47 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -36.33% -11.11% +38.38%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Test Automation Engineer job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Test Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Test Automation Engineer
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 Test Automation Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 November 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 - 1 £313 -
Test Automation Engineer
England

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 27 November 2025, Test Automation Engineer 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 Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting

Test Automation Engineer 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft