Test Automation Manager Contracts in England

Automation Test Manager
UK > England

The median Automation Test Manager daily rate in England is £320, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 June 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
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 537 624
Rank change year-on-year +72 +87 +148
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Manager 5 9 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.021% 0.024% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.026% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £266 £328 £456
25th Percentile £286 £359 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £425 £544
Median % change year-on-year -24.71% -21.84% +2.59%
75th Percentile £423 £444 £673
90th Percentile £484 £448 £738
UK median daily rate £320 £425 £544
% change year-on-year -24.71% -21.84% +2.59%

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 22,515 34,639 44,645
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.80% 94.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,812 22,701 31,737
10th Percentile £289 £286 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.29%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 972 2,623 1,319
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.34
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.57 £38.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% -14.44% +88.21%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £77.10
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.33% -16.67% +80.00%

Test Automation Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Manager in England

Test Automation Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation Manager in England

Test Automation Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation Manager in England over the 6 months to 8 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation Manager in England

Test Automation Manager
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 Test Automation Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 8 June 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 +47 3 £500 +31.15%
East of England - 2 £288 - 2
Test Automation Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 2025, Test Automation Manager 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 Test Automation Manager in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) QA
2 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) Selenium
3 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (40.00%) SCADA
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 2 (40.00%) Test Planning
4 1 (20.00%) GitLab
4 1 (20.00%) API Testing
4 1 (20.00%) RAML
4 1 (20.00%) Workload Management
4 1 (20.00%) Tricentis Tosca
4 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (20.00%) Playwright
4 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (20.00%) JUnit

Test Automation Manager 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
1 1 (20.00%) RAML
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Test Planning
3 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) API Testing
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA