Test Automation Contracts in Northampton

Automated Testing
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 23 18
Rank change year-on-year +13 -5 -1
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 22 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 13.41% 3.75% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.29% 3.95% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 3 5
10th Percentile £202 £362 -
25th Percentile £215 £371 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £268 £400 £238
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% +68.42% -41.50%
75th Percentile £330 £428 £244
90th Percentile £475 £437 £260
Northamptonshire median daily rate £268 £400 £238
% change year-on-year -33.00% +68.42% -41.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 154 152 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 93.90% 95.00% 84.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 122 89
10th Percentile £257 £355 £163
25th Percentile £322 £373 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +20.00% -18.92%
75th Percentile £463 £575 £500
90th Percentile £525 £620 £606
Northamptonshire median daily rate £391 £445 £400
% change year-on-year -12.13% +11.25% -12.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile £16.04 - -
25th Percentile £19.48 - -
Median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -3.58% +18.53%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £35.75 -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year +52.79% -72.55% +73.59%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Northampton

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Northampton.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Northampton

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Northampton over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Northampton

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 4 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) BrowserStack
1 2 (9.09%) SaaS
2 1 (4.55%) AWS
2 1 (4.55%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.55%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) DB2
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (77.27%) Selenium
2 14 (63.64%) Cucumber
3 9 (40.91%) Jenkins
4 5 (22.73%) Maven
4 5 (22.73%) REST Assured
5 4 (18.18%) JIRA
5 4 (18.18%) JUnit
5 4 (18.18%) Postman
6 3 (13.64%) IntelliJ
6 3 (13.64%) SonarQube
7 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
7 2 (9.09%) CA Release Automation
7 2 (9.09%) GitLab
7 2 (9.09%) Gradle
7 2 (9.09%) HP UFT
7 2 (9.09%) JMeter
7 2 (9.09%) NetBeans
7 2 (9.09%) SoapUI
7 2 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (9.09%) Subversion
General
1 9 (40.91%) Banking
2 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Tester
2 10 (45.45%) Automation Tester
3 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Junior
4 3 (13.64%) Java Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Junior Automation Tester
4 3 (13.64%) Junior Tester
5 2 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Automation Test Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Test Leader
6 1 (4.55%) Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) DevOps Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (4.55%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
6 1 (4.55%) Java Web Developer
6 1 (4.55%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Junior Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Product Tester
6 1 (4.55%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) jQuery
2 10 (45.45%) HTML
3 5 (22.73%) CSS
3 5 (22.73%) DOM
3 5 (22.73%) Node.js
3 5 (22.73%) REST
4 4 (18.18%) Hibernate
4 4 (18.18%) Spring Boot
5 3 (13.64%) Ajax
5 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
5 3 (13.64%) HTML5
6 2 (9.09%) Bootstrap
6 2 (9.09%) Jest
6 2 (9.09%) JPA
6 2 (9.09%) Kafka
6 2 (9.09%) Playwright
6 2 (9.09%) React
6 2 (9.09%) Redux
6 2 (9.09%) Spring Integration
6 2 (9.09%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Mainframe
2 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Agile
2 8 (36.36%) API Testing
2 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 6 (27.27%) DevOps
3 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (27.27%) Test Strategy
4 5 (22.73%) Validation
5 4 (18.18%) Microservices
5 4 (18.18%) TDD
6 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (13.64%) Manual Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Scenario Testing
7 2 (9.09%) Data Migration
7 2 (9.09%) Data Transformation
7 2 (9.09%) Data Validation
7 2 (9.09%) Integration Testing
7 2 (9.09%) Open Source
7 2 (9.09%) Responsive Web Design
7 2 (9.09%) Software Testing
7 2 (9.09%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) Java
2 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
2 5 (22.73%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.55%) COBOL
4 1 (4.55%) JCL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Progress Chef
1 2 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (9.09%) Nintex
1 2 (9.09%) Veracode
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) Perforce