QA Automation Contracts

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring QA Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA Automation over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 552 631 734
Rank change year-on-year +79 +103 -102
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 32 66 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 58 84
10th Percentile £402 £363 £400
25th Percentile £456 £414 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £481
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.49% +6.94%
75th Percentile £694 £533 £588
90th Percentile - £661 £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% +28.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - - £68.17
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £68.17
% change year-on-year - - +81.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

QA 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in the UK

QA Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for QA Automation in the UK

QA Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Automation over the 6 months to 24 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Automation in the UK

QA Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA Automation.

Hourly rate trend for QA Automation in the UK

QA Automation
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
England +67 30 £500 -1.67% 4
UK excluding London +19 18 £500 +14.29% 4
North of England +19 12 £663 +28.14% 1
London +66 11 £488 -7.14% 2
North West +19 11 £663 +19.05%
Work from Home +103 10 £466 +3.61% 3
South East +17 4 £413 -1.49% 1
Midlands +14 1 £380 -16.94%
Yorkshire +13 1 - -
East Midlands +6 1 £380 +2.70%
Wales - 1 £490 -

QA Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (18.75%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) AWS
2 8 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
2 8 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 8 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 8 (25.00%) Route 53
2 8 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 6 (18.75%) BrowserStack
4 5 (15.63%) Azure
4 5 (15.63%) GitHub
5 4 (12.50%) Sauce Labs
6 3 (9.38%) BlazeMeter
6 3 (9.38%) Firebase
7 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.25%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (3.13%) GCP
8 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (40.63%) GitLab
2 11 (34.38%) Jenkins
2 11 (34.38%) Selenium
3 10 (31.25%) Cucumber
4 8 (25.00%) Appium
4 8 (25.00%) JIRA
4 8 (25.00%) Postman
4 8 (25.00%) webpack
5 6 (18.75%) Git
6 5 (15.63%) JMeter
7 4 (12.50%) Bitbucket
7 4 (12.50%) Cypress.io
8 3 (9.38%) SpecFlow
9 2 (6.25%) REST Assured
9 2 (6.25%) WebDriver
10 1 (3.13%) Mockito
10 1 (3.13%) PHPUnit
10 1 (3.13%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (3.13%) XCUITest
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Finance
4 2 (6.25%) Retail
5 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.13%) Front Office
5 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) QA Automation Engineer
1 11 (34.38%) QA Engineer
2 10 (31.25%) Automation Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Lead
4 6 (18.75%) Tester
5 4 (12.50%) Automation Tester
5 4 (12.50%) QA Tester
5 4 (12.50%) Technical Leader
6 3 (9.38%) Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) QA Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) QA Automation Tester
6 3 (9.38%) QA Test Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) Test Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Architect
7 2 (6.25%) Automation Test Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) QA Automation Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Test Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Lead Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.00%) Express.js
1 8 (25.00%) Node.js
1 8 (25.00%) React
1 8 (25.00%) Redux
2 6 (18.75%) WebdriverIO
3 4 (12.50%) Playwright
4 3 (9.38%) .NET
4 3 (9.38%) Middleware
4 3 (9.38%) pytest
5 2 (6.25%) Gherkin
6 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.13%) Kafka
6 1 (3.13%) OAuth
6 1 (3.13%) OAuth2
6 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (3.13%) REST
6 1 (3.13%) RESTful
6 1 (3.13%) SAML
6 1 (3.13%) Web Services
6 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.13%) Derivative
2 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.13%) Fat Client
2 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.13%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Android
1 2 (6.25%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.13%) Unix
2 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (90.63%) Test Automation
2 16 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (31.25%) Agile
3 10 (31.25%) End-to-End Testing
4 9 (28.13%) BDD
4 9 (28.13%) ETL
5 8 (25.00%) API Development
5 8 (25.00%) API Testing
5 8 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 8 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 8 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
5 8 (25.00%) Front End Development
5 8 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
6 6 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (15.63%) Performance Testing
8 4 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (12.50%) DevOps
8 4 (12.50%) SDET
8 4 (12.50%) Software Testing
8 4 (12.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) Java
2 5 (15.63%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) C#
3 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.38%) SQL
5 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.13%) Go
6 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) SC Cleared
1 9 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (34.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Perfecto Mobile
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.13%) SAP
4 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.13%) Virgin Media