Automation Test Lead Contract Job Trends in Middlesbrough

Test Automation Leader
North Yorkshire > Middlesbrough

The median Test Automation Leader daily rate in Middlesbrough is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Test Lead 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Middlesbrough 10.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 11.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North Yorkshire median daily rate £463 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Middlesbrough

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Middlesbrough. 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 Middlesbrough with a recognized job title 9 8 21
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.00% 100.00% 91.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 18
10th Percentile £175 £196 £129
25th Percentile £191 £275 £132
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £258 £500 £278
Median % change year-on-year -48.35% +80.18% +20.65%
75th Percentile £371 - £397
90th Percentile £428 £525 £440
North Yorkshire median daily rate £260 £350 £400
% change year-on-year -25.71% -12.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £19.71 - £14.10
25th Percentile £21.75 £37.50 £14.91
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +128.57% +14.75%
75th Percentile £27.72 £42.50 £31.63
90th Percentile £29.26 - £39.35
North Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.83 £17.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +36.14% -20.45% +23.32%

Automation Test Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Middlesbrough

For the 6 months to 1 November 2025, Automation Test Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Middlesbrough region featuring Automation Test Lead in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation

Automation Test Lead Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Middlesbrough 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) TestRail
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) XPath
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft