Test Automation Contracts in the North East

Automated Testing
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 13 29
Rank change year-on-year -20 +16 -14
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 5 56 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.48% 13.21% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 14.43% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 46 17
10th Percentile £331 £366 £400
25th Percentile £363 £521 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -28.32% +13.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £475 £586 £600
90th Percentile £490 £842 £719
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +15.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

Test 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 North East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 272 388 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 80.47% 91.51% 85.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 301 336
10th Percentile £228 £255 £173
25th Percentile £363 £410 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.82% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £655 £720 £681
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 2 15
10th Percentile £11.44 £32.98 £10.77
25th Percentile £11.81 £35.56 £12.91
Median hourly rate £15.46 £40.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.06% +146.97% +8.20%
75th Percentile £47.47 £45.56 £18.13
90th Percentile £50.00 £47.93 £35.25
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the North East

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in the North East

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the North East over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in the North East

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in the North East

Test 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 Test Automation within the North East region over the 6 months to 28 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
Tyne and Wear -14 5 £405 -28.32% 4
Test Automation
England

Test 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Angular Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
3 1 (20.00%) Jest
3 1 (20.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (20.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) Sass
3 1 (20.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
2 2 (40.00%) Product Backlog
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) API Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Apex Code
3 1 (20.00%) SOQL
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (40.00%) WCAG
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce