Test Automation Contracts in Leeds

Automated Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 23 27
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 32 51 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 6.15% 6.31% 5.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.63% 7.50% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 37 48
10th Percentile £283 £380 £413
25th Percentile £395 £463 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £510 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.31% -9.33% +17.19%
75th Percentile £491 £575 £700
90th Percentile £558 £600 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £505 £550
% change year-on-year -5.94% -8.18% +14.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Test 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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 483 680 1,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.88% 84.16% 90.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 434 766
10th Percentile £300 £300 £385
25th Percentile £391 £402 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £611 £638 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 27 16
10th Percentile £31.53 £11.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.62 £12.15 £16.31
Median hourly rate £33.11 £12.30 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +169.19% -36.92% -8.77%
75th Percentile £66.51 £14.55 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.74 £26.50 £59.88
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £19.00
% change year-on-year +76.70% -34.05% +1.60%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Leeds

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Leeds

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Leeds over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Leeds

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Leeds

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (46.88%) AWS
2 10 (31.25%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) GCP
4 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (9.38%) npm
4 3 (9.38%) Serverless
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.13%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (3.13%) Datadog
6 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 4 (12.50%) MySQL
3 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.25%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.13%) DataStage
5 1 (3.13%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (46.88%) Selenium
2 13 (40.63%) GitLab
3 12 (37.50%) Jenkins
4 10 (31.25%) Git
4 10 (31.25%) Postman
5 8 (25.00%) Cypress.io
6 7 (21.88%) JIRA
7 6 (18.75%) Cucumber
7 6 (18.75%) JMeter
7 6 (18.75%) Maven
7 6 (18.75%) REST Assured
7 6 (18.75%) TestNG
8 4 (12.50%) SonarQube
9 3 (9.38%) Artifactory
9 3 (9.38%) JUnit
9 3 (9.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (9.38%) webpack
10 2 (6.25%) SoapUI
11 1 (3.13%) SpecFlow
11 1 (3.13%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Test Engineer
2 9 (28.13%) Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Tester
4 3 (9.38%) Angular Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Lead
4 3 (9.38%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Software Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.25%) QA Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) QA Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) QA Tester
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Contracts Manager
6 1 (3.13%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Python Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (28.13%) Playwright
2 7 (21.88%) RESTful
3 6 (18.75%) pytest
4 5 (15.63%) Node.js
5 4 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 4 (12.50%) REST
6 3 (9.38%) CSS
6 3 (9.38%) Flask
6 3 (9.38%) HTML
6 3 (9.38%) Web Services
7 1 (3.13%) Apache CXF
7 1 (3.13%) Gherkin
7 1 (3.13%) GraphQL
7 1 (3.13%) JAX-RS
7 1 (3.13%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (3.13%) Nightwatchjs
7 1 (3.13%) PySpark
7 1 (3.13%) React
7 1 (3.13%) Spring
7 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) NHS
1 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.13%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (71.88%) CI/CD
2 17 (53.13%) Agile
3 9 (28.13%) API Testing
3 9 (28.13%) DevOps
4 8 (25.00%) TDD
4 8 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 8 (25.00%) Test Strategy
5 7 (21.88%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (21.88%) Microservices
5 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (18.75%) BDD
7 5 (15.63%) Manual Testing
7 5 (15.63%) Non-Functional Testing
7 5 (15.63%) OWASP
7 5 (15.63%) SDLC
8 4 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 4 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 4 (12.50%) Scrum
8 4 (12.50%) Test Planning
9 3 (9.38%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Java
1 13 (40.63%) JavaScript
2 10 (31.25%) Python
3 9 (28.13%) SQL
4 4 (12.50%) Bash
5 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (53.13%) SC Cleared
1 17 (53.13%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.13%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (43.75%) QA
2 8 (25.00%) Accessibility
3 6 (18.75%) WCAG
4 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Brio
2 1 (3.13%) Databricks
2 1 (3.13%) Informatica
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle
2 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.13%) Talend