Test Automation Contracts in the North of England

Automated Testing
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 42 43
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 -14
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 158 276 324
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.30% 4.73% 4.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 5.20% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 190 230
10th Percentile £375 £381 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +13.96%
75th Percentile £515 £588 £575
90th Percentile £605 £680 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +14.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 3
10th Percentile - - £61.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.68 £62.50
Median hourly rate £61.25 £42.37 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.58% -34.82% +147.81%
75th Percentile £71.87 £65.75 -
90th Percentile £73.50 £74.30 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £61.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,108 5,304 6,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.82% 90.84% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,517 3,679 4,645
10th Percentile £287 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.08%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £560
90th Percentile £675 £681 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 212 263
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.50 £12.94
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.60 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -35.80% +47.59% -1.29%
75th Percentile £44.74 £45.05 £33.66
90th Percentile £53.85 £65.00 £51.69
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the North of England

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in the North of England

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in the North of England

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in the North of England

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Automation in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Automation in the North of England

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 26 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
North West +10 87 £500 +5.26% 76
Yorkshire -8 66 £450 -14.29% 34
North East -19 5 £405 -28.32% 6
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (3.16%) Apache
1 5 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.16%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.90%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) Alfresco
Applications
1 4 (2.53%) Simulink
1 4 (2.53%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 38 (24.05%) AWS
2 18 (11.39%) Azure
3 13 (8.23%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (8.23%) Amazon S3
3 13 (8.23%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (5.70%) Serverless
5 8 (5.06%) Amazon ECR
5 8 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (5.06%) Route 53
5 8 (5.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (4.43%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (4.43%) GitHub
7 5 (3.16%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (3.16%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.90%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.27%) GCP
9 2 (1.27%) SaaS
9 2 (1.27%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.16%) FTP
2 4 (2.53%) HTTP
3 3 (1.90%) DHCP
3 3 (1.90%) DNS
3 3 (1.90%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.96%) MongoDB
2 8 (5.06%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.80%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.16%) Big Data
6 2 (1.27%) GIS
6 2 (1.27%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (1.27%) MySQL
6 2 (1.27%) Redis
7 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.63%) Power BI
7 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (24.05%) Selenium
2 18 (11.39%) Git
3 17 (10.76%) Cucumber
3 17 (10.76%) JIRA
4 15 (9.49%) GitLab
5 14 (8.86%) Jenkins
6 12 (7.59%) JMeter
7 11 (6.96%) Postman
8 9 (5.70%) Cypress.io
9 8 (5.06%) webpack
10 7 (4.43%) Gatling
11 6 (3.80%) WebDriver
12 5 (3.16%) SpecFlow
13 4 (2.53%) TeamCity
14 3 (1.90%) Appium
14 3 (1.90%) Bitbucket
14 3 (1.90%) Mocha
14 3 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
14 3 (1.90%) TestCafe
14 3 (1.90%) XCUITest
General
1 34 (21.52%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.66%) Finance
3 11 (6.96%) Banking
4 10 (6.33%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.43%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.16%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.53%) Automotive
8 4 (2.53%) Legal
9 3 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.27%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Aviation
11 1 (0.63%) Law
11 1 (0.63%) Retail
11 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (20.89%) Test Engineer
2 31 (19.62%) Developer
3 28 (17.72%) Tester
4 22 (13.92%) Senior
5 21 (13.29%) Automation Tester
6 15 (9.49%) Senior Test Engineer
7 12 (7.59%) Test Automation Engineer
8 11 (6.96%) Lead
9 9 (5.70%) Architect
10 8 (5.06%) QA Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Software Engineer
11 7 (4.43%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.80%) Analyst
12 6 (3.80%) Data Engineer
12 6 (3.80%) Test Analyst
13 5 (3.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 5 (3.16%) Java Developer
13 5 (3.16%) QA Automation Engineer
13 5 (3.16%) Senior Developer
13 5 (3.16%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.92%) React
2 19 (12.03%) Node.js
3 12 (7.59%) Redux
4 11 (6.96%) .NET
5 8 (5.06%) AngularJS
5 8 (5.06%) CSS
5 8 (5.06%) Express.js
5 8 (5.06%) Gherkin
5 8 (5.06%) Kafka
6 7 (4.43%) HTML
6 7 (4.43%) JSON
6 7 (4.43%) Web Services
7 6 (3.80%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (3.80%) Playwright
8 5 (3.16%) Jest
8 5 (3.16%) REST
8 5 (3.16%) XML
9 4 (2.53%) RESTful
10 3 (1.90%) Spring Boot
10 3 (1.90%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.96%) Algorithms
2 7 (4.43%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.53%) CMDB
3 4 (2.53%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.90%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.27%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.27%) NHS
6 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.63%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.63%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.80%) Mac OS X
1 6 (3.80%) Unix
2 4 (2.53%) Windows
3 3 (1.90%) Android
3 3 (1.90%) Linux
3 3 (1.90%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.90%) Windows 7
4 2 (1.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (48.73%) Agile
2 56 (35.44%) CI/CD
3 36 (22.78%) DevOps
4 26 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (14.56%) Scrum
6 22 (13.92%) Software Engineering
7 21 (13.29%) Containerisation
7 21 (13.29%) Full Stack Development
7 21 (13.29%) TDD
8 20 (12.66%) BDD
9 17 (10.76%) Front End Development
9 17 (10.76%) Microservices
9 17 (10.76%) Test Strategy
10 16 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (9.49%) Manual Testing
12 14 (8.86%) Test Scripting
13 13 (8.23%) Continuous Integration
13 13 (8.23%) Deployment Automation
13 13 (8.23%) ETL
13 13 (8.23%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 52 (32.91%) Java
2 33 (20.89%) C#
2 33 (20.89%) JavaScript
3 21 (13.29%) Python
4 14 (8.86%) SQL
5 11 (6.96%) PowerShell
6 9 (5.70%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.43%) Scala
8 4 (2.53%) Groovy
8 4 (2.53%) MATLAB
8 4 (2.53%) PHP
8 4 (2.53%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.90%) Bash
9 3 (1.90%) C++
10 2 (1.27%) Delphi
10 2 (1.27%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.27%) VBScript
11 1 (0.63%) C
11 1 (0.63%) Go
11 1 (0.63%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 18 (11.39%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.76%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.16%) Degree
4 3 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (1.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.63%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (29.75%) QA
2 18 (11.39%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.53%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.90%) SLA
4 3 (1.90%) WCAG
5 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.63%) GRC
System Software
1 12 (7.59%) Docker
2 3 (1.90%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.90%) KVM
2 3 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.90%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 19 (12.03%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.80%) Terraform
3 3 (1.90%) Grafana
3 3 (1.90%) Kibana
3 3 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.90%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (4.43%) Wind River
2 5 (3.16%) Informatica
2 5 (3.16%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.16%) SAP
2 5 (3.16%) Talend
3 4 (2.53%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.90%) VMware
5 2 (1.27%) Perfecto Mobile
5 2 (1.27%) Siemens
6 1 (0.63%) Ariba
6 1 (0.63%) Avaloq
6 1 (0.63%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.63%) Brio
6 1 (0.63%) Databricks
6 1 (0.63%) Salesforce