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The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 1 April 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
| Automated Testing UK |
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6 months to
1 Apr 2020 |
Same period 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
| Rank |
35 |
31 |
36 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
-4 |
+5 |
0 |
| Contract jobs citing Test Automation |
3,334 |
6,166 |
5,993 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK |
5.37% |
6.40% |
5.90% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category |
6.32% |
7.33% |
6.82% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
2,245 |
4,114 |
4,258 |
| Median daily rate |
£475 |
£475 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.56% |
+7.14% |
| 10th Percentile |
£325 |
£315 |
£313 |
| 90th Percentile |
£638 |
£600 |
£600 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£439 |
£430 |
£413 |
| % change year-on-year |
+2.03% |
+4.24% |
+10.00% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
54 |
63 |
85 |
| Median hourly rate |
£35.00 |
£40.00 |
£45.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-12.50% |
-11.11% |
+12.50% |
| 10th Percentile |
£21.63 |
£19.25 |
£17.84 |
| 90th Percentile |
£64.43 |
£48.50 |
£67.25 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£35.00 |
£43.25 |
£43.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
-19.08% |
-0.57% |
+8.75% |
Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.
| All Process and Methodology Skills UK |
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills |
52,731 |
84,108 |
87,863 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
84.89% |
87.27% |
86.57% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
33,577 |
55,687 |
58,124 |
| Median daily rate |
£475 |
£475 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.56% |
+4.65% |
| 10th Percentile |
£285 |
£300 |
£288 |
| 90th Percentile |
£650 |
£650 |
£638 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£438 |
£425 |
£415 |
| % change year-on-year |
+2.94% |
+2.41% |
+3.75% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,877 |
2,128 |
2,213 |
| Median hourly rate |
£25.14 |
£24.50 |
£22.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+2.61% |
+8.89% |
-10.00% |
| 10th Percentile |
£12.50 |
£11.76 |
£11.25 |
| 90th Percentile |
£53.75 |
£50.50 |
£50.00 |
| Median hourly rate |
£22.50 |
£23.00 |
£22.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
-2.17% |
+2.22% |
-10.00% |
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Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation.
Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation over the 6 months to 1 April 2020.
Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation.
Test Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Automation over the 6 months to 1 April 2020.
Test Automation
Top 18 Contract Locations
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 UK over the 6 months to 1 April 2020. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
For the 6 months to 1 April 2020, IT contractor jobs citing Test Automation also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Test Automation.
Test Automation
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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