QA Automation Contracts in England

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring QA Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 454 511 597
Rank change year-on-year +57 +86 +104
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 31 31 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.083% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.096% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 27 42
10th Percentile £419 £413 £333
25th Percentile £434 £475 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% +7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £600 £694 £537
90th Percentile £601 £700 £643
UK median daily rate £522 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +4.48% +11.11% -5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

QA 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in England

QA Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for QA Automation in England

QA Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for QA Automation in England

QA Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Automation in England

QA Automation
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 QA Automation 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 +44 20 £600 +17.07% 17
North of England +14 8 £520 -21.55% 4
Yorkshire +13 6 £535 -
North West +7 2 £422 -36.30% 3
East of England +30 1 £450 - 6
South West - 1 £450 - 4
QA Automation
UK

QA Automation
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 7 (22.58%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (3.23%) SAP CRM
2 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) GitHub
3 5 (16.13%) BrowserStack
3 5 (16.13%) Sauce Labs
4 3 (9.68%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 2 (6.45%) Azure
5 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.23%) Fivetran
6 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.23%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Network Security
1 1 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.23%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (3.23%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (3.23%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.23%) Power BI
2 1 (3.23%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (48.39%) Selenium
2 11 (35.48%) JUnit
3 9 (29.03%) Git
4 7 (22.58%) Cucumber
4 7 (22.58%) Jenkins
4 7 (22.58%) JIRA
5 6 (19.35%) Appium
5 6 (19.35%) TestNG
6 5 (16.13%) Postman
7 4 (12.90%) Cypress.io
7 4 (12.90%) Gradle
7 4 (12.90%) HP UFT
7 4 (12.90%) IntelliJ
7 4 (12.90%) Maven
8 2 (6.45%) GitLab
8 2 (6.45%) JMeter
8 2 (6.45%) Xcode
8 2 (6.45%) XCUITest
9 1 (3.23%) Gatling
9 1 (3.23%) Serenity BDD
General
1 5 (16.13%) Finance
1 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Billing
3 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) QA Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) QA Automation Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Tester
5 3 (9.68%) Mobile Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Python Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Test Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Android Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Automation Tester
6 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Performance Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Performance Test Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior
6 2 (6.45%) Test Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) CRM Consultant
7 1 (3.23%) Development Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) QA Leader
7 1 (3.23%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) pytest
2 2 (6.45%) Playwright
2 2 (6.45%) RESTful
3 1 (3.23%) Node.js
3 1 (3.23%) Pandas
3 1 (3.23%) PySpark
3 1 (3.23%) React
3 1 (3.23%) React Native
3 1 (3.23%) REST
3 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.23%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.23%) Educational Technology
2 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (3.23%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Android
2 2 (6.45%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.23%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (93.55%) Test Automation
2 14 (45.16%) CI/CD
3 9 (29.03%) DevOps
3 9 (29.03%) E-Commerce
4 8 (25.81%) Test Scripting
5 7 (22.58%) Analytics
5 7 (22.58%) BDD
5 7 (22.58%) Software Testing
6 6 (19.35%) Agile
6 6 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (19.35%) TDD
6 6 (19.35%) Test Strategy
7 5 (16.13%) Case Management
7 5 (16.13%) Coaching
7 5 (16.13%) End-to-End Testing
7 5 (16.13%) Exploratory Testing
7 5 (16.13%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (12.90%) Code Quality
8 4 (12.90%) Due Diligence
8 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) Java
2 7 (22.58%) Python
3 4 (12.90%) SQL
4 3 (9.68%) Swift
5 2 (6.45%) C#
5 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.23%) ABAP
6 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) SAP
3 1 (3.23%) Databricks
3 1 (3.23%) Informatica
3 1 (3.23%) Splunk