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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 33 27
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +6
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 31 47 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 5.56% 4.83% 5.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.04% 5.54% 6.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 33 64
10th Percentile £263 £360 £414
25th Percentile £350 £413 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -13.64% +14.58%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £671
90th Percentile £575 £575 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +15.18%
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 513 849 1,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.94% 87.26% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 495 982
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £375 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.21% +5.50%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £619
90th Percentile £605 £655 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 35 19
10th Percentile £18.59 £11.91 £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £14.46
Median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.70% -37.35% +9.59%
75th Percentile £34.38 £15.20 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.97 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -40.94%

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 16 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 16 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 -8 30 £431 -9.21% 43
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 2 (6.45%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) AWS
2 8 (25.81%) Azure
3 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (9.68%) GCP
4 3 (9.68%) npm
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.45%) Serverless
5 2 (6.45%) Slack
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.23%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.68%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (9.68%) MongoDB
2 3 (9.68%) MySQL
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.23%) Metadata
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (54.84%) Selenium
2 12 (38.71%) Postman
3 11 (35.48%) JIRA
4 10 (32.26%) Cypress.io
5 9 (29.03%) Git
6 8 (25.81%) Cucumber
6 8 (25.81%) GitLab
7 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
7 6 (19.35%) JUnit
8 5 (16.13%) JMeter
8 5 (16.13%) Maven
8 5 (16.13%) REST Assured
8 5 (16.13%) TestNG
9 4 (12.90%) SoapUI
10 3 (9.68%) Jasmine
10 3 (9.68%) webpack
11 1 (3.23%) IntelliJ
General
1 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.23%) Finance
5 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Developer
1 8 (25.81%) Test Engineer
1 8 (25.81%) Tester
2 6 (19.35%) Senior
3 5 (16.13%) QA Tester
4 4 (12.90%) Java Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Angular Developer
5 3 (9.68%) QA Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Automation Tester
6 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Lead
6 2 (6.45%) QA Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Test Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Contracts Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Python Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) Playwright
2 6 (19.35%) pytest
2 6 (19.35%) RESTful
3 4 (12.90%) AngularJS
3 4 (12.90%) REST
3 4 (12.90%) Web Services
4 3 (9.68%) CSS
4 3 (9.68%) Flask
4 3 (9.68%) HTML
4 3 (9.68%) Spring
4 3 (9.68%) Spring Batch
4 3 (9.68%) Spring Boot
4 3 (9.68%) Spring Security
5 2 (6.45%) OpenAPI
5 2 (6.45%) Swagger
6 1 (3.23%) Ajax
6 1 (3.23%) Gherkin
6 1 (3.23%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (3.23%) Nightwatchjs
6 1 (3.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) NHS
2 2 (6.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (54.84%) CI/CD
2 15 (48.39%) Agile
3 11 (35.48%) API Testing
4 10 (32.26%) TDD
4 10 (32.26%) Test Scripting
5 9 (29.03%) BDD
5 9 (29.03%) Test Strategy
6 7 (22.58%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (22.58%) DevOps
6 7 (22.58%) Manual Testing
7 6 (19.35%) Non-Functional Testing
7 6 (19.35%) OWASP
8 5 (16.13%) Containerisation
8 5 (16.13%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (16.13%) Microservices
8 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (16.13%) Project Management
8 5 (16.13%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (12.90%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (12.90%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) Java
2 9 (29.03%) Python
3 8 (25.81%) JavaScript
3 8 (25.81%) SQL
4 7 (22.58%) Bash
5 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (48.39%) SC Cleared
1 15 (48.39%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.23%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (48.39%) QA
2 9 (29.03%) Accessibility
3 5 (16.13%) WCAG
4 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (32.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Brio
2 1 (3.23%) Databricks
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow