Test Automation Contracts in West Yorkshire

Automated Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 29 31
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 28 50 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 5.11% 5.01% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.58% 5.71% 5.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 35 57
10th Percentile £263 £358 £413
25th Percentile £322 £405 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £575 £517 £600
90th Percentile £776 £575 £693
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £80.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in West Yorkshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in West Yorkshire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in West Yorkshire

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in West Yorkshire

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Leeds -7 27 £438 -7.89% 32
Test Automation
Yorkshire

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (21.43%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) AWS
2 8 (28.57%) Azure
3 6 (21.43%) Slack
4 5 (17.86%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) GCP
7 2 (7.14%) npm
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.57%) GitHub
8 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.57%) SaaS
8 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 7 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 7 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.57%) Metadata
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (50.00%) JIRA
2 13 (46.43%) Selenium
3 11 (39.29%) Git
4 8 (28.57%) Cucumber
5 7 (25.00%) Jasmine
5 7 (25.00%) JUnit
5 7 (25.00%) Postman
6 6 (21.43%) Cypress.io
7 4 (14.29%) SoapUI
8 2 (7.14%) GitLab
8 2 (7.14%) webpack
9 1 (3.57%) IntelliJ
9 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
9 1 (3.57%) Maven
General
1 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
1 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Health Technology
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Senior
2 7 (25.00%) Tester
3 6 (21.43%) Senior Developer
4 5 (17.86%) QA Tester
4 5 (17.86%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (14.29%) QA Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Test Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Angular Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Java Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Lead
7 2 (7.14%) QA Automation Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Automation Test Lead
8 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Lead DevOps
8 1 (3.57%) QA Manual Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) RESTful
2 7 (25.00%) Spring
2 7 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 7 (25.00%) Spring Security
3 6 (21.43%) Spring Batch
3 6 (21.43%) Swagger
4 5 (17.86%) OpenAPI
5 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
5 3 (10.71%) pytest
5 3 (10.71%) REST
5 3 (10.71%) Web Services
6 2 (7.14%) CSS
6 2 (7.14%) Flask
6 2 (7.14%) Gherkin
6 2 (7.14%) HTML
6 2 (7.14%) Playwright
7 1 (3.57%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (3.57%) Nightwatchjs
7 1 (3.57%) SAML
7 1 (3.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (10.71%) NHS
3 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Linux
2 7 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
2 10 (35.71%) OWASP
3 9 (32.14%) Agile
3 9 (32.14%) Continuous Delivery
4 8 (28.57%) BDD
4 8 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 8 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (28.57%) Microservices
5 7 (25.00%) DevOps
5 7 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 7 (25.00%) TDD
6 6 (21.43%) API Design
6 6 (21.43%) API Testing
6 6 (21.43%) Coaching
6 6 (21.43%) Kernel Tuning
6 6 (21.43%) Manual Testing
6 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
6 6 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (21.43%) Test Scripting
6 6 (21.43%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) Java
1 11 (39.29%) SQL
2 10 (35.71%) Bash
3 5 (17.86%) Python
4 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (42.86%) QA
2 4 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Brio
2 1 (3.57%) Databricks
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow