Automation Tester Contracts in England

Automation Tester
UK > England

The median Automation Tester daily rate in England is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 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
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 415 462 505
Rank change year-on-year +47 +43 +17
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 65 76 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.21% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.23% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 59 106
10th Percentile £250 £348 £346
25th Percentile £281 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £464
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +2.43% +3.06%
75th Percentile £522 £625 £525
90th Percentile £575 £688 £588
UK median daily rate £435 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -5.95% +2.78% -5.26%

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 22,000 33,716 45,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 92.79% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,637 22,379 32,182
10th Percentile £290 £283 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.82% +2.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 882 2,449 1,335
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.51
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £37.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.81% -17.38% +95.65%
75th Percentile £61.09 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% -18.89% +88.21%

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 23 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 23 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 +46 36 £475 -5.00% 9
North of England +11 13 £500 +5.26% 25
Midlands +20 10 £265 -24.05% 18
East Midlands +14 10 £265 -30.20% 8
North West +10 6 £473 +5.00% 10
Yorkshire +9 6 £538 +13.16% 10
South East +53 5 £350 -22.22% 21
North East 0 1 £390 +25.81% 5
South West - 1 - - 12
East of England - 1 £200 - 12
Automation Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 65 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 35 (53.85%) Selenium
2 35 (53.85%) Java
3 27 (41.54%) Security Cleared
4 25 (38.46%) SC Cleared
5 21 (32.31%) Cypress.io
6 20 (30.77%) Cucumber
7 19 (29.23%) Jenkins
8 18 (27.69%) CI/CD
9 17 (26.15%) QA
9 17 (26.15%) Agile
10 15 (23.08%) Git
11 14 (21.54%) AWS
11 14 (21.54%) Postman
11 14 (21.54%) API Testing
12 13 (20.00%) Social Skills
12 13 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (20.00%) Test Scripting
12 13 (20.00%) JIRA
13 11 (16.92%) Software Testing
13 11 (16.92%) JavaScript
13 11 (16.92%) Python
13 11 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
14 9 (13.85%) Public Sector
14 9 (13.85%) C#
14 9 (13.85%) JUnit
14 9 (13.85%) Azure
14 9 (13.85%) Test Strategy
15 8 (12.31%) Banking
15 8 (12.31%) jQuery

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 (4.62%) Confluence
2 1 (1.54%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 14 (21.54%) AWS
2 9 (13.85%) Azure
3 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.62%) GCP
4 2 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (3.08%) GitHub
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) BGP
1 2 (3.08%) MPLS
1 2 (3.08%) SSH
1 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.54%) Data Mart
2 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.54%) DB2
2 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (53.85%) Selenium
2 21 (32.31%) Cypress.io
3 20 (30.77%) Cucumber
4 19 (29.23%) Jenkins
5 15 (23.08%) Git
6 14 (21.54%) Postman
7 13 (20.00%) JIRA
8 9 (13.85%) JUnit
9 7 (10.77%) REST Assured
10 6 (9.23%) JMeter
10 6 (9.23%) Maven
11 5 (7.69%) IntelliJ
12 4 (6.15%) GitLab
12 4 (6.15%) HP UFT
12 4 (6.15%) TestComplete
12 4 (6.15%) TestNG
12 4 (6.15%) WebDriver
13 3 (4.62%) Gatling
13 3 (4.62%) SonarQube
14 2 (3.08%) TestRail
General
1 13 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 8 (12.31%) Banking
5 5 (7.69%) Finance
6 4 (6.15%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.08%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.54%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.54%) Law
8 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.31%) jQuery
1 8 (12.31%) Playwright
2 7 (10.77%) REST
3 6 (9.23%) .NET
3 6 (9.23%) HTML
3 6 (9.23%) Kafka
4 5 (7.69%) DOM
5 4 (6.15%) RESTful
5 4 (6.15%) WireMock
6 3 (4.62%) Gherkin
6 3 (4.62%) SOAP
6 3 (4.62%) Web Services
7 2 (3.08%) Puppeteer
7 2 (3.08%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.54%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.54%) CSS
8 1 (1.54%) pytest
8 1 (1.54%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.62%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.08%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.54%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.54%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.54%) NHS
4 1 (1.54%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.54%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.23%) Windows
2 5 (7.69%) Linux
3 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 18 (27.69%) CI/CD
3 17 (26.15%) Agile
4 14 (21.54%) API Testing
5 13 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (20.00%) Test Scripting
6 11 (16.92%) Software Testing
7 9 (13.85%) Test Strategy
8 8 (12.31%) Manual Testing
9 7 (10.77%) BDD
9 7 (10.77%) DevOps
10 6 (9.23%) Performance Testing
10 6 (9.23%) Validation
11 5 (7.69%) Integration Testing
12 4 (6.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 4 (6.15%) OO
12 4 (6.15%) OOP
12 4 (6.15%) Open Source
12 4 (6.15%) System Testing
12 4 (6.15%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 35 (53.85%) Java
2 11 (16.92%) JavaScript
2 11 (16.92%) Python
3 9 (13.85%) C#
4 7 (10.77%) SQL
4 7 (10.77%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.54%) Bash
5 1 (1.54%) COBOL
5 1 (1.54%) JCL
5 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.54%) RPG
5 1 (1.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (41.54%) Security Cleared
2 25 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.08%) Degree
3 2 (3.08%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (26.15%) QA
2 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (6.15%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) Ansible
2 3 (4.62%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.54%) Kibana
3 1 (1.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (9.23%) Virgin Media
2 5 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.15%) Bloomberg
3 4 (6.15%) Reuters
4 2 (3.08%) Duck Creek
4 2 (3.08%) Guidewire
4 2 (3.08%) Splunk
5 1 (1.54%) Google
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle
5 1 (1.54%) Salesforce