Automation Test Lead Contracts with Work from Home Options

Test Automation Leader
UK > Work from Home

The median Test Automation Leader daily rate in Work from Home is £490 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 468 591
Rank change year-on-year +129 +123 -114
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Test Lead 9 8 31
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.059% 0.031% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.033% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 25
10th Percentile £418 £405 £416
25th Percentile £445 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £563 £540
Median % change year-on-year -12.89% +4.17% +17.39%
75th Percentile £535 £638 £588
90th Percentile £562 £649 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% +24.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,165 24,342 42,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,495 17,179 30,870
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £718
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.68 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Automation Test Lead
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Automation Test Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Automation Test Lead trend for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Test Lead
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Automation Test Lead.

Automation Test Lead daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Test Lead
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Automation Test Lead over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Automation Test Lead daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Test Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Automation Test Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Automation Test Lead in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) JIRA
3 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Windows
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (22.22%) UiPath
4 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 2 (22.22%) Postman
4 2 (22.22%) Playwright
4 2 (22.22%) Terraform
4 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
4 2 (22.22%) Ansible
4 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
4 2 (22.22%) Windows 2000
4 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
4 2 (22.22%) VMS
4 2 (22.22%) Unix

Automation Test Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
2 2 (22.22%) Postman
2 2 (22.22%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 1 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) JMeter
3 1 (11.11%) NUnit
3 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Marketing
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Advertising
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Electronics
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Playwright
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
2 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
2 1 (11.11%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Unix
2 2 (22.22%) VMS
2 2 (22.22%) Windows 2000
2 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 3 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Test Management
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (11.11%) BDD
4 1 (11.11%) Cash Management
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) Kanban
4 1 (11.11%) Manual Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Citrix
1 2 (22.22%) Fortinet
1 2 (22.22%) Juniper
1 2 (22.22%) UiPath
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) VMware