Test Automation Architect Contracts

Automation Test Architect
UK

The median Automation Test Architect daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 718 818
Rank change year-on-year +133 +100 -149
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Architect 1 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.007% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.002% 0.007% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 12
10th Percentile - £281 £418
25th Percentile - £291 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £313 £488
Median % change year-on-year +92.00% -35.90% -2.50%
75th Percentile - £531 £638
90th Percentile - £655 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Test Automation Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Architect in the UK

Test Automation Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation Architect in the UK

Test Automation Architect Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Test Automation Architect 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 Test Automation Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Compatibility Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Pipelines
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing

Test Automation Architect 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Pipelines
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Compatibility Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility