Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Lincolnshire

Automated Testing
East Midlands > Lincolnshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lincolnshire requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lincolnshire 0.72% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £418 £275 £390
% change year-on-year +51.82% -29.49% +2.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lincolnshire

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 Lincolnshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 98 33 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 70.50% 82.50% 71.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 5 27
10th Percentile £411 £205 £175
25th Percentile £472 £250 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -10.64%
75th Percentile £575 £519 £694
90th Percentile £653 £538 £788
East Midlands median daily rate £468 £410 £439
% change year-on-year +14.02% -6.61% -7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 15 6
10th Percentile £21.25 £18.21 £12.28
25th Percentile £21.33 £18.45 £12.75
Median hourly rate £28.50 £18.87 £17.08
Median % change year-on-year +51.03% +10.48% -
75th Percentile £74.00 £31.09 £21.30
90th Percentile £74.50 £45.58 £31.99
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.94 £18.87 £17.25
% change year-on-year -4.95% +9.39% -34.86%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Lincolnshire

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Lincolnshire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Lincolnshire

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

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

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Lincolnshire

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 Lincolnshire region over the 6 months to 22 June 2026. 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
Lincoln - 1 £600 - 1
Test Automation
East Midlands

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lincolnshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR