Test Automation Contracts in the East Midlands

Automated Testing
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 50 52
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 19 35 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.46% 3.42% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 3.88% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 34 36
10th Percentile £335 £231 £313
25th Percentile £354 £313 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £380 £410
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% +9.33%
75th Percentile £448 £438 £473
90th Percentile £538 £670 £575
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 604 901 1,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.34% 88.07% 83.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 691 834
10th Percentile £200 £205 £208
25th Percentile £269 £330 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -8.78% +2.27% +12.82%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £520
90th Percentile £625 £700 £609
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 62 79
10th Percentile £11.33 £11.89 £9.71
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.25 £13.62
Median hourly rate £17.00 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +36.89%
75th Percentile £26.15 £38.25 £29.07
90th Percentile £38.75 £64.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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
Leicestershire +11 11 £419 +10.26% 13
Northamptonshire +3 6 £400 +68.42% 3
Nottinghamshire -1 1 £375 -6.25% 7
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) JMeter
2 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) SoapUI
3 2 (10.53%) Cypress.io
3 2 (10.53%) Zephyr
4 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.26%) Postman
4 1 (5.26%) Selenium
General
1 2 (10.53%) Games
1 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Tester
2 6 (31.58%) Automation Tester
3 4 (21.05%) Test Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Performance Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Performance Test Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Functional Tester
6 1 (5.26%) QA Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) QA Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) QA Test Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) QA Tester
6 1 (5.26%) React Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Test Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Test Automation Specialist
6 1 (5.26%) Test Leader
6 1 (5.26%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) React
1 3 (15.79%) SOAP
1 3 (15.79%) Web Services
2 2 (10.53%) RESTful
2 2 (10.53%) XML
3 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.26%) CSS
3 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.26%) gRPC
3 1 (5.26%) HTML
3 1 (5.26%) JMS
3 1 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (5.26%) Next.js
3 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.26%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Functional Testing
2 6 (31.58%) Agile
2 6 (31.58%) DevOps
2 6 (31.58%) Scenario Testing
2 6 (31.58%) System Integration Testing
2 6 (31.58%) Test Strategy
2 6 (31.58%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (26.32%) End-to-End Testing
3 5 (26.32%) Exploratory Testing
3 5 (26.32%) Software Testing
4 4 (21.05%) Performance Testing
4 4 (21.05%) Test Scripting
5 3 (15.79%) Data Design
5 3 (15.79%) Scrum
5 3 (15.79%) Technology Transformation
6 2 (10.53%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (10.53%) Pair Programming
6 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Technical Debt
6 2 (10.53%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) C#
1 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
1 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
2 1 (5.26%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (21.05%) ISEB
3 3 (15.79%) ISTQB
3 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Degree
4 1 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Data Quality
1 4 (21.05%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle