Automation Tester Contracts in Manchester

Automation Tester
North West > Manchester

The median Automation Tester daily rate in Manchester is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 105 123
Rank change year-on-year +15 +18 -27
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 7 12 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.47% 0.64% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.67% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 20
10th Percentile £375 £331 £363
25th Percentile £381 £387 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -22.89%
75th Percentile £469 £438 £500
90th Percentile £522 - £550
North West median daily rate £425 £425 £400
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 1,433 1,801 2,536
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.85% 96.52% 97.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 993 1,343 1,987
10th Percentile £313 £313 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £592 £575
90th Percentile £693 £675 £650
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 50 59
10th Percentile £12.02 £16.42 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £12.02
Median hourly rate £25.10 £36.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +107.14% +8.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £48.44 £24.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £34.00
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £30.76 £20.50
% change year-on-year -13.31% +50.02% +14.53%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in Manchester

Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Tester in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Automation Tester in Manchester

Automation Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Tester in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Tester in Manchester

Automation Tester
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Tester within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
Altrincham - 1 £563 -
Salford - 1 £450 -
Automation Tester
North West

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Automation Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Selenium
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) C#
3 3 (42.86%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 2 (28.57%) Web Services
4 2 (28.57%) Python
4 2 (28.57%) RESTful
4 2 (28.57%) Scala
4 2 (28.57%) Test Management
4 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
4 2 (28.57%) OAuth
4 2 (28.57%) OpenID
4 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
4 2 (28.57%) BDD
4 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) API Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Playwright
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
4 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
4 2 (28.57%) Gatling
5 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365

Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (71.43%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (14.29%) Figma
3 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) Gatling
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) Postman
3 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
1 2 (28.57%) OpenID
1 2 (28.57%) Playwright
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
2 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) API Testing
4 2 (28.57%) BDD
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Test Management
5 1 (14.29%) Agile Testing
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Functional Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Test Planning
5 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
5 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C#
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Scala
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility