QA Automation Contracts in the North East

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring QA Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA Automation over the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.33% - 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% - 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £465
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.62%
England median daily rate £520 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +1.41% +2.50% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

QA 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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 243 249 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 79.15% 79.81% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 114 251
10th Percentile £219 £254 £248
25th Percentile £352 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £572 £589 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £17.00 £17.50 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -57.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £33.40 £48.75 £45.56
90th Percentile £50.70 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -23.29% -2.14% +49.20%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in the North East

QA Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for QA Automation in the North East

QA Automation
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 24 May 2025. 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £450 - 8
QA Automation
England

QA Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA