Test Automation Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Automated Testing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Test Automation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 79 34
Rank change year-on-year +24 -45 +6
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 35 17 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.72% 1.13% 5.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 1.38% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 41
10th Percentile £202 £226 £310
25th Percentile £264 £344 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £343 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.67% -21.05% -1.04%
75th Percentile £470 £408 £538
90th Percentile £500 £451 £700
England median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 31
10th Percentile £40.43 £43.38 £47.50
25th Percentile £53.75 £48.44 £53.75
Median hourly rate £67.00 £57.50 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.52% -36.11% +80.00%
75th Percentile - £63.75 -
90th Percentile £67.80 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -23.33% +25.00%

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 1,150 1,234 1,637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.36% 81.72% 87.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 451 893
10th Percentile £200 £213 £233
25th Percentile £377 £308 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £442 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% -
75th Percentile £580 £550 £625
90th Percentile £682 £638 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 391 358
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.42 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +92.43% -3.37%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Test Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Test Automation

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 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in the East of England

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Test Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Test Automation

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +13 15 £550 +46.67% 15
Cambridgeshire +1 7 £288 -33.33% 18
Suffolk - 7 £300 - 4
Essex +1 4 £400 +900.00% 3
Bedfordshire - 2 £500 - 5
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 (5.71%) Anypoint
1 2 (5.71%) Mule
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (11.43%) Simulink
1 4 (11.43%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (11.43%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) AWS
2 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.57%) GitHub
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (5.71%) Serverless
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Git
1 7 (20.00%) JIRA
2 5 (14.29%) Robot Framework
3 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.43%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (11.43%) Rational Rhapsody
3 4 (11.43%) Selenium
4 2 (5.71%) Cypress.io
4 2 (5.71%) GitLab
4 2 (5.71%) JMeter
4 2 (5.71%) webpack
5 1 (2.86%) Appium
5 1 (2.86%) Gatling
5 1 (2.86%) JUnit
5 1 (2.86%) LabVIEW
5 1 (2.86%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.86%) Postman
5 1 (2.86%) Redmine
5 1 (2.86%) Subversion
5 1 (2.86%) TestRail
General
1 9 (25.71%) Manufacturing
2 8 (22.86%) Aerospace
3 4 (11.43%) Law
4 3 (8.57%) Electronics
5 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Finance
5 2 (5.71%) Marketing
5 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Retail
5 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) C++ Software Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Network Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) RF Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Test Manager
4 3 (8.57%) Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Senior
4 3 (8.57%) Test Automation Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Installation Technician
5 2 (5.71%) Test Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Tester
6 1 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Desktop Support Technician
6 1 (2.86%) Electronics Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Hardware Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Support Technician
6 1 (2.86%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Web Services
2 3 (8.57%) Playwright
2 3 (8.57%) React
3 2 (5.71%) Celery
3 2 (5.71%) D3.js
3 2 (5.71%) Django
3 2 (5.71%) JWT
3 2 (5.71%) Kafka
3 2 (5.71%) MUnit
3 2 (5.71%) OAuth
3 2 (5.71%) REST
3 2 (5.71%) Sass
3 2 (5.71%) SOAP
3 2 (5.71%) Vue
4 1 (2.86%) .NET
4 1 (2.86%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.86%) HTML
4 1 (2.86%) JSON
4 1 (2.86%) Node.js
4 1 (2.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) FPGA
2 6 (17.14%) PCIe
2 6 (17.14%) State Machine
3 3 (8.57%) SCADA
4 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.86%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Linux
1 6 (17.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) CI/CD
2 9 (25.71%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 9 (25.71%) Validation
3 7 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (17.14%) Concurrent Programming
4 6 (17.14%) Data Acquisition
4 6 (17.14%) Memory Management
4 6 (17.14%) Multithreading
4 6 (17.14%) Performance Analysis
4 6 (17.14%) Performance Optimisation
4 6 (17.14%) Test Strategy
4 6 (17.14%) Unit Testing
5 5 (14.29%) DevOps
5 5 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (11.43%) Acceptance Criteria
6 4 (11.43%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 4 (11.43%) Non-Functional Testing
6 4 (11.43%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.71%) C#
1 9 (25.71%) Python
2 6 (17.14%) C++
3 5 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 5 (14.29%) MATLAB
4 3 (8.57%) SQL
5 2 (5.71%) DataWeave
5 2 (5.71%) Java
6 1 (2.86%) R
6 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (5.71%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.86%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.86%) ECSS
2 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Firmware
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) CloudHub
2 1 (2.86%) SCOM
2 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) SAP
2 2 (5.71%) MuleSoft
2 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.86%) Databricks
3 1 (2.86%) EMC
3 1 (2.86%) Ingenico
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft