Test Automation Contracts in the East Midlands

Automated Testing
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 50 50
Rank change year-on-year +29 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 37 17 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.40% 2.22% 3.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.40% 2.82% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 13 35
10th Percentile £191 £331 £231
25th Percentile £226 £355 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £400 £380
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +5.26% -10.59%
75th Percentile £469 £454 £438
90th Percentile £476 £538 £660
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 500 602 895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.51% 78.49% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 414 694
10th Percentile £205 £200 £210
25th Percentile £322 £271 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £419 £463
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% -9.51% +5.11%
75th Percentile £520 £550 £579
90th Percentile £588 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 55 53
10th Percentile - £11.24 £11.98
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.00 £22.26
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -23.63% +11.30%
75th Percentile £24.66 £26.15 £51.50
90th Percentile £37.02 £35.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the East Midlands

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in the East Midlands

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in the East Midlands

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in the East Midlands

Test Automation
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 within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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 +13 22 £268 -33.00% 10
Leicestershire +3 6 £463 +6.14% 24
Nottinghamshire +7 5 £410 +9.33% 22
Derbyshire - 4 - - 11
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.81%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 13 (35.14%) Azure
2 11 (29.73%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.11%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.41%) BrowserStack
4 2 (5.41%) SaaS
5 1 (2.70%) AWS
5 1 (2.70%) npm
5 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.70%) DB2
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.70%) Power BI
3 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (48.65%) Selenium
2 14 (37.84%) Cucumber
3 9 (24.32%) Git
3 9 (24.32%) Jenkins
4 6 (16.22%) Postman
5 5 (13.51%) Maven
5 5 (13.51%) REST Assured
5 5 (13.51%) SonarQube
6 4 (10.81%) JIRA
6 4 (10.81%) JUnit
6 4 (10.81%) NetBeans
7 3 (8.11%) Eclipse
7 3 (8.11%) IntelliJ
8 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket
8 2 (5.41%) Cypress.io
8 2 (5.41%) HP UFT
8 2 (5.41%) JMeter
8 2 (5.41%) Mockito
8 2 (5.41%) SoapUI
8 2 (5.41%) Subversion
General
1 10 (27.03%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Banking
3 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Finance
5 3 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.70%) Games
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Tester
2 10 (27.03%) Automation Tester
3 9 (24.32%) Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Android Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Junior
5 4 (10.81%) Lead
5 4 (10.81%) Senior
5 4 (10.81%) Test Leader
6 3 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Java Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Junior Automation Tester
6 3 (8.11%) Junior Tester
6 3 (8.11%) Test Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Automation Test Lead
7 2 (5.41%) QA Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) QA Test Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior QA Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Test Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Product Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (29.73%) jQuery
2 10 (27.03%) HTML
3 7 (18.92%) RESTful
4 5 (13.51%) .NET
4 5 (13.51%) Android Jetpack
4 5 (13.51%) CSS
4 5 (13.51%) DOM
4 5 (13.51%) Jetpack Compose
4 5 (13.51%) Node.js
4 5 (13.51%) REST
5 4 (10.81%) Hibernate
5 4 (10.81%) Spring Boot
6 3 (8.11%) Ajax
6 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
6 3 (8.11%) HTML5
7 2 (5.41%) Bootstrap
7 2 (5.41%) Jest
7 2 (5.41%) Playwright
7 2 (5.41%) React
7 2 (5.41%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Mobile App
2 4 (10.81%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (8.11%) Mainframe
4 2 (5.41%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) IoT
5 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.70%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Android
2 2 (5.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (62.16%) Agile
2 17 (45.95%) DevOps
3 16 (43.24%) CI/CD
4 10 (27.03%) API Testing
5 9 (24.32%) TDD
6 8 (21.62%) Microservices
6 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (21.62%) Scrum
7 7 (18.92%) Test Strategy
7 7 (18.92%) Unit Testing
8 5 (13.51%) Android Development
8 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (13.51%) Mentoring
8 5 (13.51%) Validation
9 4 (10.81%) API Integration
9 4 (10.81%) Code Quality
9 4 (10.81%) Manual Testing
9 4 (10.81%) Root Cause Analysis
10 3 (8.11%) Scenario Testing
10 3 (8.11%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (51.35%) Java
2 6 (16.22%) JavaScript
2 6 (16.22%) SQL
3 5 (13.51%) Kotlin
4 4 (10.81%) C#
4 4 (10.81%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.41%) C
5 2 (5.41%) C++
5 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.70%) COBOL
6 1 (2.70%) JCL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) GDPR
2 2 (5.41%) MISRA
2 2 (5.41%) MISRA C
2 2 (5.41%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Terraform
2 2 (5.41%) Ansible
2 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
2 2 (5.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle
3 2 (5.41%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (5.41%) Nintex
3 2 (5.41%) Perforce
3 2 (5.41%) QNX
3 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.41%) Veracode