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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 41 49
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 -17
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 160 275 331
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.41% 4.75% 4.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 5.24% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 198 238
10th Percentile £375 £380 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +16.21%
75th Percentile £517 £600 £575
90th Percentile £585 £691 £652
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 3
10th Percentile - - £61.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.68 £62.50
Median hourly rate £61.25 £53.93 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.57% -17.03% +147.81%
75th Percentile £71.87 £69.31 -
90th Percentile £73.50 £75.73 -
England median hourly rate £61.25 £67.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year -9.59% +17.83% +27.78%

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 4,027 5,253 6,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.79% 90.66% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,466 3,653 4,642
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 209 259
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.25 £12.86
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +56.81% +2.51%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £51.91
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +6 85 £500 +5.26% 76
Yorkshire -9 70 £450 -18.18% 38
North East -22 5 £405 -28.32% 3
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 (3.13%) Apache
1 5 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) Alfresco
Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Simulink
1 4 (2.50%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (1.88%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 39 (24.38%) AWS
2 15 (9.38%) Azure
3 13 (8.13%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (8.13%) Amazon S3
3 13 (8.13%) Amazon SQS
4 10 (6.25%) GitHub
5 9 (5.63%) Serverless
6 8 (5.00%) Amazon ECR
6 8 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.00%) Route 53
6 8 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (3.13%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.88%) BrowserStack
9 3 (1.88%) GCP
10 2 (1.25%) Sauce Labs
10 2 (1.25%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.13%) FTP
2 4 (2.50%) HTTP
3 3 (1.88%) DHCP
3 3 (1.88%) DNS
3 3 (1.88%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 8 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.13%) Big Data
4 5 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.25%) GIS
5 2 (1.25%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (1.25%) MySQL
5 2 (1.25%) Redis
6 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.63%) Power BI
6 1 (0.63%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (23.75%) Selenium
2 17 (10.63%) Cucumber
2 17 (10.63%) Git
3 16 (10.00%) JIRA
4 14 (8.75%) GitLab
4 14 (8.75%) Jenkins
5 11 (6.88%) JMeter
6 10 (6.25%) Postman
7 9 (5.63%) Cypress.io
8 8 (5.00%) webpack
9 7 (4.38%) Gatling
10 6 (3.75%) WebDriver
11 5 (3.13%) JUnit
11 5 (3.13%) SpecFlow
12 4 (2.50%) TeamCity
13 3 (1.88%) Appium
13 3 (1.88%) Bitbucket
13 3 (1.88%) Mocha
13 3 (1.88%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (1.88%) TestCafe
General
1 35 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.38%) Finance
3 12 (7.50%) Banking
4 8 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.38%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.13%) Automotive
7 5 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.50%) Legal
9 3 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.25%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Aviation
11 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (21.88%) Test Engineer
2 31 (19.38%) Developer
3 28 (17.50%) Tester
4 22 (13.75%) Senior
5 21 (13.13%) Automation Tester
6 15 (9.38%) Senior Test Engineer
7 13 (8.13%) Test Automation Engineer
8 11 (6.88%) Lead
9 9 (5.63%) Architect
10 8 (5.00%) QA Engineer
10 8 (5.00%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.75%) Data Engineer
12 5 (3.13%) Analyst
12 5 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
12 5 (3.13%) Java Developer
12 5 (3.13%) Senior Developer
12 5 (3.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 5 (3.13%) Test Analyst
12 5 (3.13%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (13.13%) React
2 18 (11.25%) Node.js
3 12 (7.50%) Redux
4 11 (6.88%) .NET
5 10 (6.25%) Gherkin
6 8 (5.00%) AngularJS
6 8 (5.00%) CSS
6 8 (5.00%) Express.js
6 8 (5.00%) Kafka
6 8 (5.00%) Playwright
7 7 (4.38%) HTML
7 7 (4.38%) JSON
7 7 (4.38%) Web Services
8 6 (3.75%) ActiveMQ
9 5 (3.13%) XML
10 4 (2.50%) Jest
10 4 (2.50%) REST
10 4 (2.50%) RESTful
11 3 (1.88%) Spring Boot
11 3 (1.88%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 9 (5.63%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.50%) CMDB
4 3 (1.88%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.88%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.25%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.25%) NHS
6 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.63%) Mashup
6 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.63%) PKI
6 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.63%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.63%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.75%) Mac OS X
1 6 (3.75%) Unix
2 3 (1.88%) Android
2 3 (1.88%) Windows
2 3 (1.88%) Windows 10
2 3 (1.88%) Windows 7
3 2 (1.25%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (50.00%) Agile
2 57 (35.63%) CI/CD
3 34 (21.25%) DevOps
4 26 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (15.63%) Scrum
6 24 (15.00%) Software Engineering
6 24 (15.00%) TDD
7 20 (12.50%) BDD
7 20 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 20 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
8 19 (11.88%) Test Strategy
9 17 (10.63%) Front End Development
9 17 (10.63%) Microservices
10 15 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (9.38%) Manual Testing
11 14 (8.75%) Deployment Automation
11 14 (8.75%) Test Scripting
12 13 (8.13%) API Testing
12 13 (8.13%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (8.13%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 53 (33.13%) Java
2 33 (20.63%) C#
3 32 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 20 (12.50%) Python
5 14 (8.75%) SQL
6 11 (6.88%) TypeScript
7 10 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.38%) Scala
9 5 (3.13%) Bash
10 4 (2.50%) Groovy
10 4 (2.50%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.50%) PHP
10 4 (2.50%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.25%) C
11 2 (1.25%) C++
11 2 (1.25%) Delphi
11 2 (1.25%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.25%) VBScript
12 1 (0.63%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.63%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 17 (10.63%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.13%) Degree
4 3 (1.88%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (1.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (30.00%) QA
2 18 (11.25%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.88%) SLA
4 3 (1.88%) WCAG
5 2 (1.25%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.63%) GRC
System Software
1 11 (6.88%) Docker
2 3 (1.88%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.88%) KVM
2 3 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.88%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.88%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 17 (10.63%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.75%) Terraform
3 3 (1.88%) Grafana
3 3 (1.88%) Kibana
3 3 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.88%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.63%) Ansible
4 1 (0.63%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.63%) Nmap
Vendors
1 7 (4.38%) Wind River
2 6 (3.75%) SAP
3 5 (3.13%) Informatica
3 5 (3.13%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.13%) Talend
4 4 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.88%) Siemens
5 3 (1.88%) VMware
6 2 (1.25%) Google
6 2 (1.25%) Perfecto Mobile
7 1 (0.63%) Ariba
7 1 (0.63%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.63%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.63%) Brio
7 1 (0.63%) Databricks
7 1 (0.63%) Salesforce