Test Automation Contracts in the East of England

Automated Testing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 84 37
Rank change year-on-year +30 -47 +37
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 32 30 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.79% 1.58% 4.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 1.87% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 13 47
10th Percentile £211 £415 £308
25th Percentile £309 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +4.21% -3.06%
75th Percentile £511 £525 £550
90th Percentile £547 £539 £717
England median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 29
10th Percentile £45.24 £48.98 £47.50
25th Percentile £48.30 £51.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £58.50 £57.50 £77.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% -25.32% +71.11%
75th Percentile £69.00 £66.25 £90.00
90th Percentile £72.60 £82.88 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £71.00
% change year-on-year -2.22% -20.77% +18.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,015 1,608 1,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.41% 84.63% 87.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 639 1,020
10th Percentile £207 £200 £231
25th Percentile £363 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £428 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.96% -14.41% +5.16%
75th Percentile £575 £565 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 603 352
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.14 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +90.48% +7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.26 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the East of England

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in the East of England

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the East of England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in the East of England

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in the East of England

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Automation in the East of England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Automation in the East of England

Test Automation
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 Test Automation within the East of England region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Hertfordshire +33 12 £475 +13.10% 65
Cambridgeshire +2 6 £320 -35.68% 70
Suffolk - 6 £300 - 16
Essex +14 4 £400 -17.53% 58
Bedfordshire 0 4 £575 +4.55% 33
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.25%) Anypoint
1 2 (6.25%) Mule
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.25%) Simulink
1 2 (6.25%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (9.38%) GitHub
3 2 (6.25%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (6.25%) Power Automate
3 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.25%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.13%) GCP
4 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) Wireless
2 1 (3.13%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.25%) InfluxDB
2 2 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
1 5 (15.63%) JIRA
1 5 (15.63%) Robot Framework
2 3 (9.38%) GitLab
2 3 (9.38%) Selenium
3 2 (6.25%) Git
3 2 (6.25%) JMeter
3 2 (6.25%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (6.25%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (3.13%) Appium
4 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.13%) Gatling
4 1 (3.13%) JUnit
4 1 (3.13%) LabVIEW
4 1 (3.13%) LoadRunner
4 1 (3.13%) Redmine
4 1 (3.13%) Subversion
4 1 (3.13%) TestNG
4 1 (3.13%) WebDriver
4 1 (3.13%) webpack
General
1 3 (9.38%) Aerospace
1 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (9.38%) Finance
1 3 (9.38%) Manufacturing
1 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
1 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
2 2 (6.25%) Electronics
2 2 (6.25%) Law
3 1 (3.13%) Marketing
3 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Developer
2 5 (15.63%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Test Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Backend Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Python Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Test Automation Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Lead
5 2 (6.25%) RF Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior
5 2 (6.25%) Supply Chain Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Test Automation Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Test Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Tester
6 1 (3.13%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Desktop Support Technician
6 1 (3.13%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) REST
2 3 (9.38%) Web Services
3 2 (6.25%) JWT
3 2 (6.25%) Kafka
3 2 (6.25%) MUnit
3 2 (6.25%) OAuth
3 2 (6.25%) Playwright
3 2 (6.25%) React
3 2 (6.25%) SOAP
4 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.13%) Celery
4 1 (3.13%) D3.js
4 1 (3.13%) ggplot2
4 1 (3.13%) Gherkin
4 1 (3.13%) JSON
4 1 (3.13%) Node.js
4 1 (3.13%) RESTful
4 1 (3.13%) Sass
4 1 (3.13%) Shiny
4 1 (3.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) SCADA
2 2 (6.25%) FPGA
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.13%) PCIe
3 1 (3.13%) State Machine
3 1 (3.13%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) CI/CD
2 6 (18.75%) Agile
2 6 (18.75%) DevOps
3 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (15.63%) OO
4 4 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 4 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (12.50%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 4 (12.50%) Migration
4 4 (12.50%) Performance Testing
4 4 (12.50%) Test Scripting
4 4 (12.50%) Test Strategy
4 4 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (12.50%) Validation
5 3 (9.38%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (9.38%) Performance Analysis
5 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (9.38%) Regression Testing
5 3 (9.38%) TDD
5 3 (9.38%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Python
2 7 (21.88%) C#
3 6 (18.75%) Java
4 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.38%) MATLAB
4 3 (9.38%) SQL
5 2 (6.25%) C++
5 2 (6.25%) DataWeave
6 1 (3.13%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.13%) Degree
1 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
1 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (31.25%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) ECSS
2 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) Firmware
3 1 (3.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) CloudHub
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.13%) Puppet
3 1 (3.13%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) vRealize
3 1 (3.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
1 3 (9.38%) SAP
2 2 (6.25%) MuleSoft
2 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.13%) Dell
3 1 (3.13%) EMC
3 1 (3.13%) Ingenico
3 1 (3.13%) LogRhythm
3 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds
3 1 (3.13%) VMware