Automated Testing
Cheshire > Warrington
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Warrington requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 11 May 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | - | 17 | 24 |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | +7 | - |
| Contract jobs citing Test Automation | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warrington | - | 1.30% | 1.85% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category | - | 1.47% | 2.08% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | £428 |
| 25th Percentile | - | - | £450 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | - | - | £500 |
| 75th Percentile | - | - | £550 |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | £573 |
| Cheshire median daily rate | £447 | £510 | £445 |
| % change year-on-year | -12.35% | +14.61% | -6.32% |
All Process and Methodology Skills
Warrington
Test 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 in Warrington.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills | 61 | 68 | 96 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warrington | 96.83% | 88.31% | 88.89% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 36 | 40 | 51 |
| 10th Percentile | £203 | £158 | £200 |
| 25th Percentile | £230 | £242 | £346 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £389 | £413 | £450 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -5.76% | -8.33% | +8.43% |
| 75th Percentile | £488 | £500 | £566 |
| 90th Percentile | £569 | £576 | £650 |
| Cheshire median daily rate | £447 | £489 | £480 |
| % change year-on-year | -8.59% | +1.88% | +6.19% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 2 | 7 | 2 |
| Median hourly rate | £12.82 | £14.00 | £36.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -8.43% | -61.11% | +135.14% |
| Cheshire median hourly rate | £37.00 | £26.66 | £30.54 |
| % change year-on-year | +38.78% | -12.70% | +28.59% |
Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington
Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Warrington.
Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Warrington
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Warrington.