Test Automation Contracts in the North East

Automated Testing
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 25 12
Rank change year-on-year +5 -13 +18
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 16 12 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 5.18% 3.73% 12.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.53% 4.63% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 34
10th Percentile £329 £325 £356
25th Percentile £364 £383 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £565
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -24.78% -5.83%
75th Percentile £445 £478 £614
90th Percentile £460 £501 £848
England median daily rate £488 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -7.14% -4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 245 259 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 79.29% 80.43% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 113 224
10th Percentile £220 £263 £257
25th Percentile £359 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £512
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -6.16% +2.30%
75th Percentile £541 £588 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £714
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 50 9
10th Percentile - £11.44 £16.85
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 £18.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £19.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -2.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £19.97 £48.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £48.51 £68.88 £36.24
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.34
% change year-on-year -34.02% +2.09% +45.40%

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 30 June 2025.

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 30 June 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 15 £400 -5.88% 50
Durham +1 1 - - 6
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.25%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (18.75%) Serverless
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (6.25%) Azure
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
1 1 (6.25%) Flink
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Cucumber
2 3 (18.75%) Postman
2 3 (18.75%) Selenium
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (12.50%) JUnit
3 2 (12.50%) REST Assured
4 1 (6.25%) Appium
4 1 (6.25%) Git
4 1 (6.25%) GitLab
4 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Test Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) QA Tester
2 4 (25.00%) Tester
3 2 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Tester
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Developer in Test
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) QA Automation Tester
4 1 (6.25%) QA Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) REST
1 3 (18.75%) WireMock
2 2 (12.50%) Next.js
2 2 (12.50%) OpenAPI
2 2 (12.50%) Swagger
3 1 (6.25%) boto
3 1 (6.25%) GatsbyJS
3 1 (6.25%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) JPA
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) Playwright
3 1 (6.25%) React
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 9 (56.25%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) API Testing
4 5 (31.25%) BDD
5 4 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Defect Management
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
7 2 (12.50%) DevOps
7 2 (12.50%) Functional Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning
7 2 (12.50%) Microservices
7 2 (12.50%) Refactoring
7 2 (12.50%) Scrum
7 2 (12.50%) TDD
7 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
7 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
8 1 (6.25%) Integration Testing
8 1 (6.25%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) QA
2 3 (18.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Virgin Media