QA Automation Contracts in the North West

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 160 -
Rank change year-on-year +38 - -
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 12 7 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.44% 0.21% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile - £553 -
25th Percentile £500 £557 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £563 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.67% - -
75th Percentile £694 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £663 £500 £481
% change year-on-year +32.50% +3.90% +12.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

QA 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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,380 2,994 3,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.58% 91.09% 87.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,541 2,143 2,590
10th Percentile £306 £313 £229
25th Percentile £405 £406 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £563
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 149 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.73 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.11 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +19.40%
75th Percentile £45.00 £49.52 £43.75
90th Percentile £52.78 £65.80 £60.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -9.33% +56.25% -

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in the North West

QA Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for QA Automation in the North West

QA Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Automation in the North West over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Automation in the North West

QA Automation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Manchester +33 12 £663 - 2
QA Automation
England

QA Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 8 (66.67%) Amazon ECR
1 8 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
1 8 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 8 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
1 8 (66.67%) Route 53
1 8 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) BrowserStack
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) GitLab
2 8 (66.67%) webpack
3 2 (16.67%) Appium
3 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 2 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 2 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Lead
2 4 (33.33%) Technical Leader
3 3 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) QA Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) Express.js
1 8 (66.67%) Node.js
1 8 (66.67%) React
1 8 (66.67%) Redux
2 2 (16.67%) pytest
2 2 (16.67%) WebdriverIO
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (66.67%) API Development
3 8 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 8 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 8 (66.67%) Customer Engagement
3 8 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 8 (66.67%) ETL
3 8 (66.67%) Front End Development
3 8 (66.67%) Full Stack Development
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) API Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (16.67%) BDD
6 2 (16.67%) Conversational AI
6 2 (16.67%) Conversational UI
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Time Management
7 1 (8.33%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) C#
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Perfecto Mobile