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 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 28 38
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 -18
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 58 85 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 5.85% 5.82% 4.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.84% 6.38% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 60 63
10th Percentile £400 £413 £335
25th Percentile £450 £498 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £550 £480
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +14.58% +12.94%
75th Percentile £575 £656 £536
90th Percentile £600 £700 £575
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £480
% change year-on-year -13.64% +14.58% +8.17%

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 848 1,333 1,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.57% 91.24% 90.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 923 1,212
10th Percentile £300 £350 £280
25th Percentile £406 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £578 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 18 47
10th Percentile £12.03 £12.00 £10.25
25th Percentile £12.15 £13.81 £12.38
Median hourly rate £13.02 £19.00 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -31.50% +1.60% -13.98%
75th Percentile £15.25 £32.81 £22.40
90th Percentile £53.75 £63.75 £27.85
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.50
% change year-on-year +27.00% -42.54% -6.06%

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 June 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 16 June 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 0 53 £490 -10.91% 16
Bradford +6 3 £450 -3.49%
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 (10.34%) AWS
1 6 (10.34%) Azure
2 4 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (6.90%) GCP
2 4 (6.90%) GitHub
3 2 (3.45%) Tricentis Tosca
4 1 (1.72%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.72%) GIS
2 1 (1.72%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (32.76%) Selenium
2 12 (20.69%) JUnit
3 9 (15.52%) Cucumber
4 5 (8.62%) Jenkins
4 5 (8.62%) JIRA
4 5 (8.62%) JMeter
4 5 (8.62%) Postman
5 4 (6.90%) Cypress.io
6 3 (5.17%) Git
6 3 (5.17%) WebDriver
6 3 (5.17%) XCUITest
7 2 (3.45%) Gatling
7 2 (3.45%) Mockito
7 2 (3.45%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.72%) GitLab
8 1 (1.72%) TestNG
8 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.24%) Finance
3 3 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.45%) Health Technology
4 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (31.03%) Tester
2 16 (27.59%) Automation Tester
3 9 (15.52%) Developer
3 9 (15.52%) Test Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Analyst
4 5 (8.62%) Test Analyst
5 4 (6.90%) Automation Developer
5 4 (6.90%) Senior
5 4 (6.90%) Test Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Lead
6 3 (5.17%) QA Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) QA Test Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Automation Test Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (3.45%) SAP Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.86%) Gherkin
2 4 (6.90%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (6.90%) Kafka
3 3 (5.17%) JSON
3 3 (5.17%) Playwright
3 3 (5.17%) REST
3 3 (5.17%) Web Services
4 2 (3.45%) JAX-RS
4 2 (3.45%) React
5 1 (1.72%) ADO
5 1 (1.72%) CSS
5 1 (1.72%) HTML
5 1 (1.72%) Node.js
5 1 (1.72%) OAuth
5 1 (1.72%) OpenID
5 1 (1.72%) PostGIS
5 1 (1.72%) pytest
5 1 (1.72%) RESTful
5 1 (1.72%) SAML
5 1 (1.72%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.34%) Algorithms
3 3 (5.17%) NHS
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Mac OS X
1 4 (6.90%) Unix
2 2 (3.45%) Android
2 2 (3.45%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (75.86%) Agile
2 18 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (27.59%) CI/CD
3 16 (27.59%) Test Scripting
3 16 (27.59%) Test Strategy
4 15 (25.86%) TDD
5 14 (24.14%) Software Testing
6 12 (20.69%) Scrum
7 11 (18.97%) Manual Testing
7 11 (18.97%) System Testing
7 11 (18.97%) Unit Testing
8 10 (17.24%) Analytics
9 9 (15.52%) API Testing
9 9 (15.52%) BDD
9 9 (15.52%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (15.52%) Kanban
9 9 (15.52%) Test Planning
9 9 (15.52%) User Stories
10 8 (13.79%) Acceptance Criteria
10 8 (13.79%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 34 (58.62%) Java
2 12 (20.69%) JavaScript
3 9 (15.52%) TypeScript
4 7 (12.07%) Python
5 6 (10.34%) Bash
6 3 (5.17%) C
6 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.17%) Scala
7 2 (3.45%) C#
7 2 (3.45%) Groovy
7 2 (3.45%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.72%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (6.90%) SC Cleared
1 4 (6.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (37.93%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (5.17%) Google
1 3 (5.17%) SAP
2 2 (3.45%) Brio
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.72%) Ariba
3 1 (1.72%) Databricks