Automation Tester Contracts in the East of England

Automation Tester
England > East of England

The median Automation Tester daily rate in the East of England is £200, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 - 119
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.10% - 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £455
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile - - £700
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £445 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -6.32% - +5.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 845 1,671 1,819
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.67% 88.69% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 744 1,100
10th Percentile £200 £205 £194
25th Percentile £375 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 591 274
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.79 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £44.10 £43.00 £41.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.86% +161.28%
75th Percentile £72.81 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £37.18 £44.77
% change year-on-year -21.60% -16.94% +94.63%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in the East of England

Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Tester in the East of England

Automation Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Automation Tester in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Automation Tester in the East of England

Automation Tester
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 21 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
Cambridgeshire - 1 £200 -
Automation Tester
England

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 21 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 of England region featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript