Test Automation Contracts in Leicestershire

Automated Testing
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 14 15 24
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 -4
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 5 11 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 5.00% 6.92% 6.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.95% 9.09% 6.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 11
10th Percentile - £348 -
25th Percentile £456 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £419 £380
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% +10.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £469 £517 £406
90th Percentile - £538 £438
East Midlands median daily rate £444 £419 £375
% change year-on-year +5.91% +11.73% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84 121 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 84.00% 76.10% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 94 136
10th Percentile £225 £193 £250
25th Percentile £269 £258 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £375 £395
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% -5.06% -1.25%
75th Percentile £541 £556 £450
90th Percentile £651 £634 £555
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £19.05 £13.55 £14.08
25th Percentile £19.88 £16.25 £17.03
Median hourly rate £22.50 £21.50 £20.60
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +4.37% -12.34%
75th Percentile £26.88 £25.50 £41.88
90th Percentile £28.75 £27.45 £63.50
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Leicestershire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Leicestershire

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Leicestershire

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Leicester -6 4 £463 +10.38% 28
Test Automation
East Midlands

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (20.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Android Developer
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Android Jetpack
1 4 (80.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 4 (80.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Android Development
2 4 (80.00%) API Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 4 (80.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Perforce