Senior Automation Tester Contract Job Trends

Senior Automation Tester
UK

The median Senior Automation Tester daily rate in the UK is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 554 560 642
Rank change year-on-year +6 +82 +201
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Automation Tester 11 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.016% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.017% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 3
10th Percentile £339 £359 -
25th Percentile £375 £416 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 £340
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +69.12% -35.24%
75th Percentile £475 £718 £350
90th Percentile £589 £765 £356
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £375 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 29,736 35,681 46,948
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 92.95% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,755 21,927 32,149
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,586 1,658 1,511
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £14.93
25th Percentile £17.17 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%
75th Percentile £51.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.13 £43.90 £43.75
% change year-on-year -42.76% +0.34% +98.86%

Senior Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Automation Tester in the UK

Senior Automation Tester
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Automation Tester job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Automation Tester job vacancies in the UK

Senior Automation Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Automation Tester over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Automation Tester in the UK

Senior Automation Tester
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Automation Tester within the UK over the 6 months to 21 September 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
England +19 8 £375 -44.03% 7
London +21 4 £488 -27.24% 2
UK excluding London +14 4 £375 - 7
North of England - 4 £375 - 3
Work from Home +25 2 £366 -52.16% 3
Yorkshire - 2 £375 -
North West - 2 £340 - 3

Senior Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 21 September 2025, Senior 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 featuring Senior Automation Tester in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Selenium
3 5 (45.45%) API Testing
3 5 (45.45%) Playwright
4 4 (36.36%) Performance Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Agile
5 3 (27.27%) Java
5 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
5 3 (27.27%) Load Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
5 3 (27.27%) QA
5 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) Postman
6 2 (18.18%) REST Assured
6 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 2 (18.18%) Serverless
6 2 (18.18%) QA Automation
6 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (18.18%) Gatling
6 2 (18.18%) SDLC
6 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (18.18%) SonarQube
6 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
6 2 (18.18%) Coaching
6 2 (18.18%) Node.js
6 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
6 2 (18.18%) RESTful

Senior Automation Tester Skill Set
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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Selenium
2 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
2 3 (27.27%) Postman
3 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
3 2 (18.18%) Gatling
3 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) JUnit
3 2 (18.18%) REST Assured
3 2 (18.18%) SonarQube
4 1 (9.09%) Git
4 1 (9.09%) GitLab
4 1 (9.09%) Hamcrest
4 1 (9.09%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (9.09%) SoapUI
4 1 (9.09%) TestNG
4 1 (9.09%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Playwright
2 2 (18.18%) Node.js
2 2 (18.18%) RESTful
3 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
3 1 (9.09%) Nightwatchjs
3 1 (9.09%) Puppeteer
3 1 (9.09%) SOAP
3 1 (9.09%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (9.09%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (45.45%) API Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Load Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Coaching
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) QA Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) SDLC
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
6 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
6 1 (9.09%) Non-Functional Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Rapid Prototyping
6 1 (9.09%) User Stories
6 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Java
1 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Ruby
3 1 (9.09%) Scala
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk