Test Automation Contracts in West Yorkshire

Automated Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 31 32
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -16
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 50 86 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 5.01% 5.26% 5.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.71% 5.76% 6.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 57 69
10th Percentile £358 £413 £395
25th Percentile £405 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +12.94%
75th Percentile £517 £600 £525
90th Percentile £575 £693 £580
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 875 1,494 1,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.59% 91.43% 90.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 1,023 1,248
10th Percentile £300 £350 £300
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £656 £700 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 16 43
10th Percentile £11.91 £12.58 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.15 £15.10 £11.75
Median hourly rate £12.53 £25.25 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.38% +40.28% -22.40%
75th Percentile £15.20 £65.31 £22.58
90th Percentile £41.35 £70.00 £28.45
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
% change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -9.54%

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 30 April 2024.

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 30 April 2024. 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 +2 43 £475 -13.64% 26
Bradford +2 3 £450 +4.05% 1
Wakefield - 2 - -
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (12.00%) Azure
2 5 (10.00%) AWS
3 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.00%) GCP
4 3 (6.00%) GitHub
5 2 (4.00%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) DHCP
1 3 (6.00%) DNS
1 3 (6.00%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (6.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.00%) GIS
2 1 (2.00%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (36.00%) Selenium
2 6 (12.00%) Cucumber
3 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.00%) JIRA
3 5 (10.00%) JMeter
3 5 (10.00%) Postman
4 4 (8.00%) JUnit
5 3 (6.00%) Cypress.io
5 3 (6.00%) Git
5 3 (6.00%) WebDriver
5 3 (6.00%) XCUITest
6 2 (4.00%) Gatling
6 2 (4.00%) Mockito
7 1 (2.00%) GitLab
7 1 (2.00%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.00%) TestNG
7 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.00%) Finance
3 3 (6.00%) Banking
3 3 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Health Technology
4 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Tester
2 10 (20.00%) Automation Tester
3 9 (18.00%) Developer
4 8 (16.00%) Test Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Automation Developer
6 4 (8.00%) Senior
6 4 (8.00%) Test Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Test Manager
7 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Lead
7 3 (6.00%) QA Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) QA Test Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (4.00%) SAP Manager
8 2 (4.00%) SAP Test Manager
8 2 (4.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) Gherkin
2 4 (8.00%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (8.00%) Kafka
3 3 (6.00%) Web Services
4 2 (4.00%) .NET
4 2 (4.00%) JAX-RS
4 2 (4.00%) JSON
4 2 (4.00%) Playwright
4 2 (4.00%) React
4 2 (4.00%) REST
5 1 (2.00%) OAuth
5 1 (2.00%) OpenID
5 1 (2.00%) OpenLayers
5 1 (2.00%) PostGIS
5 1 (2.00%) PySpark
5 1 (2.00%) pytest
5 1 (2.00%) Redux
5 1 (2.00%) RESTful
5 1 (2.00%) SignalR
5 1 (2.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (6.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.00%) NHS
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Mac OS X
1 4 (8.00%) Unix
2 3 (6.00%) Windows
2 3 (6.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (6.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (4.00%) Android
3 2 (4.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (64.00%) Agile
2 18 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (28.00%) CI/CD
4 13 (26.00%) Test Strategy
5 11 (22.00%) TDD
6 9 (18.00%) BDD
6 9 (18.00%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (18.00%) Project Management
7 8 (16.00%) Manual Testing
7 8 (16.00%) Test Planning
8 7 (14.00%) Analytics
8 7 (14.00%) Defect Tracking
8 7 (14.00%) Scrum
8 7 (14.00%) Test Scripting
9 6 (12.00%) API Testing
9 6 (12.00%) DevOps
9 6 (12.00%) Mentoring
9 6 (12.00%) Software Architecture
9 6 (12.00%) Software Testing
9 6 (12.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.00%) Java
2 9 (18.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (14.00%) TypeScript
4 5 (10.00%) Bash
4 5 (10.00%) Python
5 4 (8.00%) C#
6 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.00%) Scala
7 2 (4.00%) C
7 2 (4.00%) Groovy
7 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (36.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Docker
2 3 (6.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.00%) KVM
2 3 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (6.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.00%) Terraform
2 3 (6.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.00%) SAP
2 3 (6.00%) VMware
2 3 (6.00%) Wind River
3 2 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (2.00%) Ariba
4 1 (2.00%) Brio
4 1 (2.00%) Databricks