Senior Automation Tester Contracts in the North West

Senior Automation Tester
England > North West

The median Senior Automation Tester daily rate in the North West is £340, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 - 148
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Automation Tester 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.045% - 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% - 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 - -
England median daily rate £375 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -34.78% +15.00% -4.35%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 2,031 2,309 2,634
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.15% 95.10% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,308 1,376 1,810
10th Percentile £268 £276 £288
25th Percentile £363 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +3.09%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £656 £675 £673
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 187 158
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.68 £15.93
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.58 £17.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +14.20% +34.71%
75th Percentile £50.00 £54.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.29 £70.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.63% +68.64%

Senior Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Senior Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Automation Tester in the North West

Senior Automation Tester
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Automation Tester job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Automation Tester job vacancies in the North West

Senior Automation Tester
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 Senior Automation Tester within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Manchester - 1 £340 -
Senior Automation Tester
England

Senior Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 29 August 2025, Senior Automation Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Senior Automation Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) WebdriverIO
1 1 (100.00%) Puppeteer
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Senior Automation Tester Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Puppeteer
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) WebdriverIO
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Scala