QA Automation Contracts in the Midlands

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 136 157 197
Rank change year-on-year +21 +40 -
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 1 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.036% 0.17% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% 0.20% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £351 -
25th Percentile £355 £408 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £405 - -
90th Percentile - £530 -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,253 3,057 4,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.14% 88.38% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,505 2,131 3,302
10th Percentile £236 £250 £233
25th Percentile £356 £370 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 120 155
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.80 £10.20
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.00 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.64 £22.00
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.25 £33.30
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in the Midlands

QA Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for QA Automation in the Midlands

QA Automation
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
East Midlands +17 1 £380 +2.70%
QA Automation
England

QA Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) QA Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) QA Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow