Test Automation Contracts in Nottingham

Automated Testing
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Nottingham 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 25 27
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 5 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottingham 4.42% 1.49% 4.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.05% 1.85% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 11
10th Percentile £69 £370 £363
25th Percentile £75 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £408 £505
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -19.31% +20.24%
75th Percentile £480 £431 £722
90th Percentile £506 £439 £743
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £453 £408 £400
% change year-on-year +11.04% +1.88% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 99 108 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 87.61% 80.60% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 56 178
10th Percentile £289 £234 £321
25th Percentile £410 £372 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -5.24% +10.53%
75th Percentile £530 £578 £700
90th Percentile £571 £663 £743
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 10
10th Percentile £14.04 £11.95 £10.85
25th Percentile £14.39 £12.75 £11.80
Median hourly rate £14.96 £13.89 £20.84
Median % change year-on-year +7.74% -33.36% +111.09%
75th Percentile £15.54 £17.31 £25.43
90th Percentile £15.88 £23.95 £28.88
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £13.81 £14.27 £20.00
% change year-on-year -3.22% -28.65% +47.28%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Nottingham

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Nottingham

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Nottingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Nottingham

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottingham 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 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Postman
2 2 (40.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (40.00%) NetBeans
3 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) QA Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior QA Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) POSIX
2 1 (20.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (20.00%) IoT
3 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) API Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
4 1 (20.00%) Physics
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C
1 2 (40.00%) C++
1 2 (40.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (40.00%) GDPR
2 2 (40.00%) MISRA
2 2 (40.00%) MISRA C
2 2 (40.00%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (20.00%) IEC 61508
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) QNX
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk