Test Automation Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Automated Testing
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 22 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 -10 +14
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 16 5 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 7.17% 2.38% 16.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.47% 2.82% 17.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 44
10th Percentile £319 £331 £379
25th Percentile £357 £363 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £405 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% -28.32% +13.00%
75th Percentile £451 £475 £588
90th Percentile £590 £490 £844
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £395 £405 £565
% change year-on-year -2.47% -28.32% +13.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 189 177 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 84.75% 84.29% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 89 243
10th Percentile £225 £335 £352
25th Percentile £358 £400 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £650
90th Percentile £629 £650 £740
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £500 £565
% change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 0
10th Percentile £21.05 £18.25 -
25th Percentile £30.50 £20.75 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 -
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £51.35 £68.75 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -5.71% - -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Newcastle upon Tyne

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Newcastle upon Tyne

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Newcastle upon Tyne

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Newcastle upon Tyne

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.25%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (6.25%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (6.25%) AWS CodeCommit
3 1 (6.25%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 1 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) Kong
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
1 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (6.25%) Flink
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Cucumber
2 4 (25.00%) REST Assured
3 3 (18.75%) Git
3 3 (18.75%) JUnit
4 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 1 (6.25%) GitLab
5 1 (6.25%) JIRA
5 1 (6.25%) Postman
5 1 (6.25%) Selenium
5 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (56.25%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Electronics
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 2 (12.50%) Marketing
3 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Test Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Data Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) QA Tester
3 3 (18.75%) Tester
4 2 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Test Leader
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Automation Tester
5 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Architect
5 1 (6.25%) QA Automation Tester
5 1 (6.25%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) REST
1 2 (12.50%) WireMock
2 1 (6.25%) boto
2 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) RESTful
2 1 (6.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Agile
1 6 (37.50%) API Testing
1 6 (37.50%) BDD
1 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (12.50%) ETL
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Programme Management
3 2 (12.50%) Scrum
3 2 (12.50%) Test Scripting
3 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
4 1 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (6.25%) Integration Testing
4 1 (6.25%) Manual Testing
4 1 (6.25%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
4 1 (6.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) Kibana
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) logstash
2 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) SAP
1 3 (18.75%) Virgin Media
2 2 (12.50%) Databricks