Test Automation Contracts in Nottinghamshire

Automated Testing
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Nottinghamshire 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 28 24
Rank change year-on-year +12 -4 -11
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 7 1 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 4.49% 0.61% 5.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.11% 0.75% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 13
10th Percentile £71 - £333
25th Percentile £240 £363 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -6.25% -30.43%
75th Percentile £464 £388 £700
90th Percentile £493 - £743
East Midlands median daily rate £275 £390 £380
% change year-on-year -29.49% +2.63% -27.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 137 133 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 87.82% 81.10% 85.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 60 166
10th Percentile £303 £249 £301
25th Percentile £408 £350 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £488 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -8.06% +6.05%
75th Percentile £524 £550 £700
90th Percentile £574 £588 £745
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £445 £475
% change year-on-year -7.87% -6.32% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 19 11
10th Percentile - £12.28 £11.80
25th Percentile - £12.75 £12.48
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.27 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -34.15% +48.32%
75th Percentile £17.11 £17.32 £27.62
90th Percentile £17.87 £26.50 £70.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £17.00 £26.48
% change year-on-year +11.00% -35.80% +23.16%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Nottinghamshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Nottinghamshire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Nottinghamshire

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
Nottingham +10 7 £410 +9.33% 29
Test Automation
East Midlands

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Eclipse
1 2 (28.57%) NetBeans
1 2 (28.57%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Ranorex
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) QA Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) QA Test Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) QA Tester
2 2 (28.57%) Senior QA Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior QA Tester
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Tester
2 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) POSIX
2 1 (14.29%) SailPoint
2 1 (14.29%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (14.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
2 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) API Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Exploratory Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security
4 1 (14.29%) Kanban
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C
1 2 (28.57%) C++
1 2 (28.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) CISA
2 1 (14.29%) CISM
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) GDPR
2 2 (28.57%) MISRA
2 2 (28.57%) MISRA C
2 2 (28.57%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (14.29%) COBIT
3 1 (14.29%) IEC 61508
3 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (14.29%) NIST
3 1 (14.29%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) QNX
3 1 (14.29%) Alteryx
3 1 (14.29%) Rapid7