Test Automation Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Automated Testing
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 13 35
Rank change year-on-year -10 +22 -17
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 9 40 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.81% 14.81% 4.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 16.26% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 34 14
10th Percentile £322 £356 £365
25th Percentile £363 £514 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -27.43% -5.83% +36.36%
75th Percentile £438 £614 £638
90th Percentile £480 £848 £728
North East median daily rate £410 £565 £540
% change year-on-year -27.43% +4.63% +22.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 206 246 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 87.29% 91.11% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 183 283
10th Percentile £328 £313 £212
25th Percentile £400 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £600
90th Percentile £638 £749 £688
North East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 4 12
10th Percentile £11.50 £18.23 £10.53
25th Percentile £12.13 £18.56 £12.44
Median hourly rate £19.50 £25.75 £16.18
Median % change year-on-year -24.27% +59.15% +24.46%
75th Percentile £50.00 £32.44 £17.31
90th Percentile £68.75 £33.23 £18.63
North East median hourly rate £19.50 £32.25 £16.50
% change year-on-year -39.53% +95.45% +29.41%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Tyne and Wear

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Tyne and Wear

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Tyne and Wear

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Tyne and Wear

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -11 9 £410 -27.43% 7
Test Automation
North East

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Selenium
2 3 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) JUnit
3 1 (11.11%) REST Assured
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Billing
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) QA Automation Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) QA Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Test Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Angular Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Tester
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) HTML
1 3 (33.33%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (33.33%) Visualforce
2 2 (22.22%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
3 1 (11.11%) Jest
3 1 (11.11%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) Test Scripting
2 4 (44.44%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 2 (22.22%) Kanban
4 2 (22.22%) Load Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
4 2 (22.22%) SFIA
4 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (22.22%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (22.22%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) Apex Code
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) SOQL
3 2 (22.22%) Scala
4 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 2 (22.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Salesforce