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 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 33 26 28
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 27 43 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 5.81% 5.38% 6.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.31% 6.21% 6.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 31 52
10th Percentile £263 £350 £414
25th Percentile £319 £403 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -13.64% +14.58%
75th Percentile £531 £517 £600
90th Percentile £776 £575 £699
West Yorkshire median daily rate £444 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -6.58% -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £80.00

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 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

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 1 May 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 6 (22.22%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) AWS
2 8 (29.63%) Azure
3 6 (22.22%) Slack
4 5 (18.52%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (11.11%) GCP
7 2 (7.41%) npm
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.70%) GitHub
8 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.70%) SaaS
8 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (25.93%) Apache Cassandra
2 7 (25.93%) MongoDB
2 7 (25.93%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.70%) Metadata
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (48.15%) JIRA
2 12 (44.44%) Selenium
3 10 (37.04%) Git
4 8 (29.63%) Cucumber
5 7 (25.93%) Jasmine
5 7 (25.93%) JUnit
6 6 (22.22%) Cypress.io
6 6 (22.22%) Postman
7 4 (14.81%) SoapUI
8 2 (7.41%) GitLab
8 2 (7.41%) webpack
9 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
1 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Health Technology
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Developer
2 7 (25.93%) Java Developer
2 7 (25.93%) Senior
3 6 (22.22%) Senior Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Tester
4 5 (18.52%) QA Tester
4 5 (18.52%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (14.81%) QA Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Test Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Angular Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Java Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Lead
7 2 (7.41%) QA Automation Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Test Automation Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Data Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Lead DevOps
8 1 (3.70%) Lead Java Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) QA Manual Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) RESTful
2 7 (25.93%) Spring
2 7 (25.93%) Spring Boot
2 7 (25.93%) Spring Security
3 6 (22.22%) Spring Batch
3 6 (22.22%) Swagger
4 5 (18.52%) OpenAPI
5 3 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 3 (11.11%) pytest
5 3 (11.11%) REST
5 3 (11.11%) Web Services
6 2 (7.41%) CSS
6 2 (7.41%) Flask
6 2 (7.41%) Gherkin
6 2 (7.41%) HTML
6 2 (7.41%) Playwright
7 1 (3.70%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (3.70%) Nightwatchjs
7 1 (3.70%) SAML
7 1 (3.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (11.11%) NHS
3 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (37.04%) Linux
2 7 (25.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
2 10 (37.04%) OWASP
3 9 (33.33%) Agile
3 9 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 8 (29.63%) BDD
4 8 (29.63%) Containerisation
4 8 (29.63%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (29.63%) Microservices
5 7 (25.93%) DevOps
5 7 (25.93%) Mentoring
5 7 (25.93%) TDD
6 6 (22.22%) API Design
6 6 (22.22%) Coaching
6 6 (22.22%) Kernel Tuning
6 6 (22.22%) Manual Testing
6 6 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 6 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (22.22%) Test Scripting
6 6 (22.22%) Test Strategy
7 5 (18.52%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) SQL
2 10 (37.04%) Bash
2 10 (37.04%) Java
3 5 (18.52%) Python
4 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) SC Cleared
1 10 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (40.74%) QA
2 4 (14.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Brio
2 1 (3.70%) Databricks
2 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow