Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Leicester

Automated Testing
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 9 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +13
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 10 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 11.76% 5.63% 7.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.39% 6.25% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 9
10th Percentile £360 £329 £350
25th Percentile £384 £334 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £360 £419
Median % change year-on-year +32.99% -14.08% -5.58%
75th Percentile £703 £379 £435
90th Percentile £738 £380 £438
Leicestershire median daily rate £431 £360 £419
% change year-on-year +19.79% -14.08% -4.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61 64 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 71.76% 90.14% 82.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 44 85
10th Percentile £192 £225 £175
25th Percentile £400 £275 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £433 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.32% -13.45% +23.46%
75th Percentile £613 £556 £575
90th Percentile £627 £714 £701
Leicestershire median daily rate £425 £428 £475
% change year-on-year -0.58% -10.00% +18.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £14.51 - £20.80
25th Percentile £15.51 £21.25 £34.00
Median hourly rate £17.92 £22.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.36% -59.82% -12.16%
75th Percentile £21.09 £23.75 £60.50
90th Percentile £22.53 - £63.20
Leicestershire median hourly rate £23.50 £23.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year +1.08% +10.71% -65.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Leicester

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Test Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Leicester over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Leicester

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Test Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Synapse
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (10.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Automation Tester
1 6 (60.00%) Tester
2 3 (30.00%) Android Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Android Jetpack
1 3 (30.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 3 (30.00%) RESTful
2 2 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Test Strategy
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Android Development
4 3 (30.00%) Functional Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (30.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) System Integration Testing
4 3 (30.00%) TDD
4 3 (30.00%) Test Planning
4 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
4 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (20.00%) API Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks