QA Automation Contracts in Manchester

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 115 -
Rank change year-on-year +26 - -
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 12 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.79% 0.16% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 - -
75th Percentile £694 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £663 £563 -
% change year-on-year +17.67% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

QA Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,325 1,758 2,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.00% 92.24% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 1,289 1,790
10th Percentile £313 £313 £260
25th Percentile £406 £413 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £665 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 64 50
10th Percentile £12.40 £15.31 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.10 £35.00 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -31.14% +129.51% -3.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £45.66 £23.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £68.80 £33.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for QA Automation in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Automation in Manchester over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Automation in Manchester

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 8 (66.67%) Amazon ECR
1 8 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
1 8 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 8 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
1 8 (66.67%) Route 53
1 8 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) BrowserStack
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) GitLab
2 8 (66.67%) webpack
3 2 (16.67%) Appium
3 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 2 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 2 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Lead
2 4 (33.33%) Technical Leader
3 3 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) QA Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) Express.js
1 8 (66.67%) Node.js
1 8 (66.67%) React
1 8 (66.67%) Redux
2 2 (16.67%) pytest
2 2 (16.67%) WebdriverIO
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (66.67%) API Development
3 8 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 8 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 8 (66.67%) Customer Engagement
3 8 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 8 (66.67%) ETL
3 8 (66.67%) Front End Development
3 8 (66.67%) Full Stack Development
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) API Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (16.67%) BDD
6 2 (16.67%) Conversational AI
6 2 (16.67%) Conversational UI
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Time Management
7 1 (8.33%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) C#
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Perfecto Mobile