Automation Tester Contracts in England

Automation Tester
UK > England

The median Automation Tester daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 469 495 538
Rank change year-on-year +26 +43 -51
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 81 141 259
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.30% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.32% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 102 212
10th Percentile £356 £333 £350
25th Percentile £413 £403 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £523 £519
90th Percentile £688 £588 £556
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £45.06
25th Percentile - - £48.90
Median hourly rate - - £56.58
75th Percentile - - £63.06
90th Percentile - - £66.17
UK median hourly rate - - £56.58

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 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 16 June 2024.

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 16 June 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
London +66 46 £500 - 1
North of England +9 20 £475 +5.56% 2
Yorkshire +11 17 £475 +5.56% 2
Midlands +11 7 £380 -12.14% 1
East Midlands +6 7 £380 -
South West 0 4 £570 +52.00% 2
North West +10 2 £400 -13.51%
South East -4 2 - - 2
North East +9 1 £310 -33.33%
Automation Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 2024, 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 81 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 41 (50.62%) Java
3 39 (48.15%) Agile
4 30 (37.04%) Selenium
5 22 (27.16%) Banking
6 20 (24.69%) JavaScript
6 20 (24.69%) Social Skills
7 19 (23.46%) QA
8 17 (20.99%) Postman
8 17 (20.99%) CI/CD
9 15 (18.52%) Functional Testing
9 15 (18.52%) Cypress.io
9 15 (18.52%) Cucumber
10 14 (17.28%) BDD
10 14 (17.28%) C#
11 13 (16.05%) REST
12 12 (14.81%) Manual Testing
13 11 (13.58%) Security Cleared
13 11 (13.58%) JIRA
13 11 (13.58%) AWS
13 11 (13.58%) Python
13 11 (13.58%) Jenkins
13 11 (13.58%) API Testing
13 11 (13.58%) Fintech
14 10 (12.35%) Scenario Testing
14 10 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (12.35%) Test Strategy
15 9 (11.11%) Gherkin
15 9 (11.11%) Performance Testing
15 9 (11.11%) Continuous Integration

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 3 (3.70%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.58%) AWS
2 6 (7.41%) GitHub
3 5 (6.17%) Azure
4 4 (4.94%) Figma
5 2 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.47%) Azure AKS
5 2 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.47%) GCP
6 1 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.23%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (1.23%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.23%) Firebase
6 1 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.23%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.23%) SaaS
6 1 (1.23%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.23%) Power BI
2 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (37.04%) Selenium
2 17 (20.99%) Postman
3 15 (18.52%) Cucumber
3 15 (18.52%) Cypress.io
4 11 (13.58%) Jenkins
4 11 (13.58%) JIRA
5 8 (9.88%) GitLab
6 7 (8.64%) JMeter
7 6 (7.41%) SoapUI
7 6 (7.41%) WebDriver
8 5 (6.17%) Git
8 5 (6.17%) JUnit
8 5 (6.17%) REST Assured
9 4 (4.94%) SpecFlow
10 3 (3.70%) Appium
11 2 (2.47%) TestCafe
11 2 (2.47%) TestNG
11 2 (2.47%) Zephyr
12 1 (1.23%) Gerrit
12 1 (1.23%) TestComplete
General
1 22 (27.16%) Banking
2 20 (24.69%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 7 (8.64%) Front Office
4 7 (8.64%) Prime Brokerage
5 6 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.17%) Back Office
6 5 (6.17%) Finance
6 5 (6.17%) Wholesale Banking
7 4 (4.94%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Local Government
9 1 (1.23%) Retail
9 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.05%) REST
2 9 (11.11%) Gherkin
3 6 (7.41%) AngularJS
4 5 (6.17%) JSON
5 4 (4.94%) .NET
5 4 (4.94%) GraphQL
5 4 (4.94%) Web Services
6 3 (3.70%) ADO
6 3 (3.70%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (3.70%) Jest
6 3 (3.70%) pytest
7 2 (2.47%) Middleware
7 2 (2.47%) Node.js
7 2 (2.47%) Playwright
7 2 (2.47%) PySpark
7 2 (2.47%) React
7 2 (2.47%) XML
8 1 (1.23%) Chai
8 1 (1.23%) Swagger
8 1 (1.23%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Equities
2 5 (6.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.47%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.70%) Unix
2 2 (2.47%) Android
3 1 (1.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 39 (48.15%) Agile
3 17 (20.99%) CI/CD
4 15 (18.52%) Functional Testing
5 14 (17.28%) BDD
6 12 (14.81%) Manual Testing
7 11 (13.58%) API Testing
7 11 (13.58%) Fintech
8 10 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (12.35%) Scenario Testing
8 10 (12.35%) Test Strategy
9 9 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (11.11%) Non-Functional Testing
9 9 (11.11%) Performance Testing
9 9 (11.11%) Regression Testing
9 9 (11.11%) Scrum
9 9 (11.11%) Test Planning
10 8 (9.88%) Exploratory Testing
11 7 (8.64%) Test Management
11 7 (8.64%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 41 (50.62%) Java
2 20 (24.69%) JavaScript
3 14 (17.28%) C#
4 11 (13.58%) Python
5 9 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 7 (8.64%) SQL
7 2 (2.47%) Bash
7 2 (2.47%) C
7 2 (2.47%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 11 (13.58%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.88%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.94%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (23.46%) QA
2 4 (4.94%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.94%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.70%) Ansible
2 3 (3.70%) Terraform
3 2 (2.47%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (6.17%) ServiceNow
2 2 (2.47%) Atlassian
2 2 (2.47%) Google
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.47%) Virgin Media
3 1 (1.23%) Adobe
3 1 (1.23%) NEC
3 1 (1.23%) Qualtrics
3 1 (1.23%) Splunk
3 1 (1.23%) VMware