QA Automation Tester Contracts in the UK excluding London

Automation QA Tester
UK > UK excluding London

The median Automation QA Tester daily rate in the UK excluding London is £380 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 440 505
Rank change year-on-year +53 +65 -97
Contract jobs requiring a QA Automation Tester 3 19 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.079% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.084% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 15 8
10th Percentile - £363 £275
25th Percentile £355 £366 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £425 £335
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% +26.87% -43.93%
75th Percentile £405 £442 £369
90th Percentile - £443 £374
UK median daily rate £315 £419 £375
% change year-on-year -24.78% +11.67% -21.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,251 22,726 29,670
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 94.14% 95.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,778 15,918 20,742
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £390 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,230 1,187 1,502
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.20
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

QA Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured QA Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Tester in the UK excluding London

QA Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Automation Tester in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for QA Automation Tester in the UK excluding London

QA Automation Tester
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation Tester within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Northern Ireland +9 2 - -
Midlands +28 1 £380 +16.92%
East Midlands +22 1 £380 +16.92%
QA Automation Tester
UK

QA Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, QA 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 UK excluding London region featuring QA Automation Tester in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 2 (66.67%) NUnit
2 2 (66.67%) Maven
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Postman

QA Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Maven
2 2 (66.67%) NUnit
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) Postman
3 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow