Senior Automation Tester Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Automation Tester
UK > England

The median Senior Automation Tester daily rate in England is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 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
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 531 607
Rank change year-on-year +19 +76 +181
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Automation Tester 8 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.012% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.013% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 0
10th Percentile £337 - -
25th Percentile £358 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £670 -
Median % change year-on-year -44.03% - -
75th Percentile £494 £765 -
90th Percentile £593 - -
UK median daily rate £400 £575 £340
% change year-on-year -30.43% +69.12% -35.24%

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 25,187 30,511 40,033
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.33% 92.98% 94.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,216 19,002 27,957
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £401 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,371 1,457 1,375
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.56 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%
75th Percentile £53.99 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £77.80
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Senior Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Automation Tester in England

Senior Automation Tester
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Automation Tester job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Automation Tester job vacancies in England

Senior Automation Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Automation Tester in England over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Automation Tester in England

Senior 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 Senior Automation Tester within the England region over the 6 months to 21 September 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 +21 4 £488 -27.24% 2
North of England - 4 £375 - 3
Yorkshire - 2 £375 -
North West - 2 £340 - 3
Senior Automation Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 2025, Senior 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 Senior Automation Tester in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (75.00%) Selenium
3 5 (62.50%) API Testing
4 4 (50.00%) AWS
5 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
5 3 (37.50%) Performance Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Load Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Agile
5 3 (37.50%) Playwright
5 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
5 3 (37.50%) Postman
6 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (25.00%) Gatling
6 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
6 2 (25.00%) C#
6 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (25.00%) SQL
6 2 (25.00%) JUnit
6 2 (25.00%) Scrum
6 2 (25.00%) QA
6 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
6 2 (25.00%) JIRA
6 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 2 (25.00%) RESTful
6 2 (25.00%) QA Automation
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
6 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
6 2 (25.00%) DevOps

Senior 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Selenium
2 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
2 3 (37.50%) Postman
3 2 (25.00%) Gatling
3 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) JUnit
3 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (12.50%) Git
4 1 (12.50%) GitLab
4 1 (12.50%) Hamcrest
4 1 (12.50%) REST Assured
4 1 (12.50%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
4 1 (12.50%) TestNG
4 1 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Playwright
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
3 1 (12.50%) Nightwatchjs
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) Puppeteer
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (12.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) API Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Load Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Testing
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) QA Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) Coaching
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (12.50%) SDLC
5 1 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
5 1 (12.50%) User Experience
5 1 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) C#
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Ruby
2 1 (12.50%) Scala
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk