Automation Tester Contracts in England

Automation Tester
UK > England

The median Automation Tester daily rate in England is £465, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 465 500
Rank change year-on-year +43 +35 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 63 77 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.21% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.22% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 62 117
10th Percentile £298 £357 £363
25th Percentile £359 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £516 £611 £530
90th Percentile £569 £688 £588
UK median daily rate £443 £443 £475
% change year-on-year -0.11% -6.74% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in England

Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Tester in England

Automation Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Tester in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Tester in England

Automation Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Automation Tester in England

Automation Tester
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +32 40 £465 -7.10% 6
North of England +9 11 £500 +13.64% 4
South East +53 10 £350 -22.22% 2
North West +15 5 £500 +17.65%
Yorkshire 0 5 £550 +20.22% 4
Midlands +17 1 £250 -35.90% 2
East Midlands +6 1 £250 -37.50% 1
North East 0 1 £390 +25.81%
Automation Tester
UK

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 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 England region featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 63 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 28 (44.44%) Security Cleared
3 27 (42.86%) SC Cleared
4 24 (38.10%) Selenium
4 24 (38.10%) Java
5 22 (34.92%) Agile
6 21 (33.33%) Cypress.io
7 19 (30.16%) QA
8 17 (26.98%) CI/CD
9 16 (25.40%) AWS
10 13 (20.63%) Cucumber
10 13 (20.63%) Jenkins
11 12 (19.05%) Social Skills
11 12 (19.05%) Python
12 11 (17.46%) Git
12 11 (17.46%) Test Scripting
12 11 (17.46%) JIRA
12 11 (17.46%) Postman
12 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (15.87%) Public Sector
13 10 (15.87%) Software Testing
14 9 (14.29%) JavaScript
14 9 (14.29%) Finance
14 9 (14.29%) API Testing
15 8 (12.70%) TypeScript
15 8 (12.70%) Playwright
15 8 (12.70%) Telecoms
15 8 (12.70%) C#
15 8 (12.70%) Azure
15 8 (12.70%) Test Strategy

Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (6.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.40%) AWS
2 8 (12.70%) Azure
3 5 (7.94%) GCP
4 2 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.59%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.59%) GitHub
5 1 (1.59%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (1.59%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.94%) BGP
1 5 (7.94%) MPLS
1 5 (7.94%) TCP/IP
1 5 (7.94%) VLAN
2 2 (3.17%) 802.11
2 2 (3.17%) Bluetooth
2 2 (3.17%) Broadband
2 2 (3.17%) DOCSIS
2 2 (3.17%) SSH
2 2 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.17%) Wireless
2 2 (3.17%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.59%) Data Mart
2 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (38.10%) Selenium
2 21 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 13 (20.63%) Cucumber
3 13 (20.63%) Jenkins
4 11 (17.46%) Git
4 11 (17.46%) JIRA
4 11 (17.46%) Postman
5 5 (7.94%) JMeter
5 5 (7.94%) JUnit
5 5 (7.94%) Maven
5 5 (7.94%) Robot Framework
6 4 (6.35%) GitLab
6 4 (6.35%) HP UFT
6 4 (6.35%) IntelliJ
6 4 (6.35%) REST Assured
6 4 (6.35%) TestComplete
7 3 (4.76%) SpecFlow
8 2 (3.17%) Gatling
8 2 (3.17%) Gradle
8 2 (3.17%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.87%) Public Sector
3 9 (14.29%) Finance
4 8 (12.70%) Telecoms
5 7 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.35%) Banking
6 4 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Electronics
7 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.17%) Marketing
8 1 (1.59%) Law
8 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.70%) Playwright
2 6 (9.52%) .NET
3 5 (7.94%) Kafka
4 4 (6.35%) WireMock
5 3 (4.76%) Gherkin
5 3 (4.76%) HTML
5 3 (4.76%) Puppeteer
6 2 (3.17%) 802.1X
6 2 (3.17%) DOM
6 2 (3.17%) jQuery
6 2 (3.17%) PySpark
6 2 (3.17%) REST
6 2 (3.17%) WebdriverIO
7 1 (1.59%) CSS
7 1 (1.59%) Nightwatchjs
7 1 (1.59%) RESTful
7 1 (1.59%) SOAP
7 1 (1.59%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Cloud Native
1 6 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.94%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.59%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.59%) IoT
4 1 (1.59%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.59%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.59%) NHS
4 1 (1.59%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.59%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.52%) Windows
2 4 (6.35%) Android
2 4 (6.35%) Apple iOS
2 4 (6.35%) Linux
3 1 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 22 (34.92%) Agile
3 17 (26.98%) CI/CD
4 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (17.46%) Test Scripting
5 10 (15.87%) Software Testing
6 9 (14.29%) API Testing
7 8 (12.70%) Test Strategy
8 7 (11.11%) Manual Testing
8 7 (11.11%) Performance Testing
9 6 (9.52%) BDD
9 6 (9.52%) System Testing
10 5 (7.94%) Analytics
10 5 (7.94%) Containerisation
10 5 (7.94%) DevOps
10 5 (7.94%) Integration Testing
10 5 (7.94%) Mentoring
10 5 (7.94%) User Stories
10 5 (7.94%) Validation
11 4 (6.35%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 24 (38.10%) Java
2 12 (19.05%) Python
3 9 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 8 (12.70%) C#
4 8 (12.70%) TypeScript
5 6 (9.52%) SQL
6 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.59%) RPG
6 1 (1.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 27 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.76%) Degree
4 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.59%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (30.16%) QA
2 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 6 (9.52%) Ansible
1 6 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Kibana
2 1 (1.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (7.94%) Microsoft
1 5 (7.94%) Virgin Media
2 4 (6.35%) Bloomberg
2 4 (6.35%) Reuters
3 3 (4.76%) Splunk
4 2 (3.17%) Databricks
4 2 (3.17%) SAP
5 1 (1.59%) Salesforce