QA Automation Contracts in England

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 605 709
Rank change year-on-year +100 +104 -136
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 31 55 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.083% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.096% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 41 62
10th Percentile £413 £363 £394
25th Percentile £475 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £694 £538 £575
90th Percentile £700 £575 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £481
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.49% +6.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - - £68.17
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £68.17
% change year-on-year - - +81.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

QA 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,208 45,878 64,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.28% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,179 32,145 45,991
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,233 1,631 1,786
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.23
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.19
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 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 +87 14 £513 -2.38% 11
North of England +45 13 £663 +19.05% 4
North West +24 12 £663 +17.67% 2
Midlands +33 1 £380 -24.00%
East Midlands +12 1 £380 +2.70%
South East +10 1 £475 +15.15% 2
East of England - 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
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 4 (12.90%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) AWS
2 9 (29.03%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (29.03%) Amazon S3
2 9 (29.03%) Amazon SQS
3 8 (25.81%) Amazon ECR
3 8 (25.81%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (25.81%) Route 53
3 8 (25.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (16.13%) Azure
5 4 (12.90%) BrowserStack
6 3 (9.68%) GitHub
6 3 (9.68%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.45%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (6.45%) Firebase
7 2 (6.45%) Serverless
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.23%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Big Data
3 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) GitLab
2 10 (32.26%) Cucumber
3 9 (29.03%) Jenkins
3 9 (29.03%) Selenium
4 8 (25.81%) webpack
5 7 (22.58%) Postman
6 6 (19.35%) Appium
6 6 (19.35%) JIRA
7 5 (16.13%) Git
8 4 (12.90%) Cypress.io
8 4 (12.90%) JMeter
9 3 (9.68%) Bitbucket
9 3 (9.68%) SoapUI
10 2 (6.45%) Fiddler
10 2 (6.45%) REST Assured
10 2 (6.45%) SpecFlow
10 2 (6.45%) WebDriver
11 1 (3.23%) Mockito
11 1 (3.23%) Subversion
11 1 (3.23%) TestNG
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Finance
3 4 (12.90%) Banking
4 3 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Lead
2 7 (22.58%) QA Automation Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) QA Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Tester
4 4 (12.90%) Automation Consultant
4 4 (12.90%) Consultant
4 4 (12.90%) QA Consultant
4 4 (12.90%) Technical Leader
5 3 (9.68%) Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Automation Tester
5 3 (9.68%) QA Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) QA Test Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Test Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Automation Test Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) QA Automation Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) QA Leader
6 2 (6.45%) QA Tester
6 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) Express.js
1 8 (25.81%) Node.js
1 8 (25.81%) React
1 8 (25.81%) Redux
2 4 (12.90%) WebdriverIO
3 3 (9.68%) Playwright
3 3 (9.68%) REST
4 2 (6.45%) .NET
4 2 (6.45%) Gherkin
4 2 (6.45%) Middleware
4 2 (6.45%) pytest
5 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.23%) JSON
5 1 (3.23%) OAuth
5 1 (3.23%) RESTful
5 1 (3.23%) SAML
5 1 (3.23%) Spring
5 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.23%) Web Services
5 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Unix
2 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (90.32%) Test Automation
2 15 (48.39%) CI/CD
3 11 (35.48%) BDD
3 11 (35.48%) End-to-End Testing
3 11 (35.48%) ETL
4 9 (29.03%) Agile
5 8 (25.81%) API Development
5 8 (25.81%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 8 (25.81%) Containerisation
5 8 (25.81%) Customer Engagement
5 8 (25.81%) Front End Development
5 8 (25.81%) Full Stack Development
6 7 (22.58%) DevOps
6 7 (22.58%) SDET
7 6 (19.35%) Performance Testing
8 4 (12.90%) API Testing
8 4 (12.90%) Fintech
8 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Software Testing
8 4 (12.90%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) Python
2 8 (25.81%) Java
3 6 (19.35%) TypeScript
4 5 (16.13%) C#
5 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.68%) SQL
6 1 (3.23%) Go
6 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.23%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) SC Cleared
1 9 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.23%) ISEB
3 1 (3.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (9.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (35.48%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle
2 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow