Automation Tester Contracts with Work from Home Options

Automation Tester
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation Tester daily rate in Work from Home is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 393 404
Rank change year-on-year +94 +11 -73
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 47 76 228
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.29% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.31% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 58 201
10th Percentile £354 £351 £363
25th Percentile £363 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £500 £536 £538
90th Percentile £530 £558 £588
UK median daily rate £447 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £45.06
25th Percentile - - £48.90
Median hourly rate - - £56.58
75th Percentile - - £63.06
90th Percentile - - £66.17
UK median hourly rate - - £56.58

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 14,459 24,892 42,839
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.28% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,665 17,565 30,928
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £745 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 589 610
10th Percentile £14.27 £18.50 £12.88
25th Percentile £22.50 £27.73 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%

Automation Tester
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Automation Tester trend for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Tester
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 Tester.

Automation Tester daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Tester
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Automation Tester over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Automation Tester daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Automation Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 47 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 20 (42.55%) Selenium
3 16 (34.04%) Agile
4 14 (29.79%) Java
5 13 (27.66%) Cypress.io
5 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
6 12 (25.53%) C#
7 11 (23.40%) AWS
7 11 (23.40%) Cucumber
8 10 (21.28%) JavaScript
9 9 (19.15%) Python
9 9 (19.15%) QA
9 9 (19.15%) Azure
9 9 (19.15%) Jenkins
9 9 (19.15%) API Testing
10 8 (17.02%) DevOps
10 8 (17.02%) Security Cleared
10 8 (17.02%) Test Scripting
10 8 (17.02%) WebDriver
10 8 (17.02%) SQL
10 8 (17.02%) Scrum
11 7 (14.89%) Banking
11 7 (14.89%) SC Cleared
11 7 (14.89%) REST Assured
12 6 (12.77%) CI/CD
12 6 (12.77%) Microservices
12 6 (12.77%) SDET
12 6 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (12.77%) BDD
12 6 (12.77%) TypeScript

Automation Tester 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.40%) AWS
2 9 (19.15%) Azure
3 6 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.38%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (6.38%) GitHub
4 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (2.13%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.13%) dbt
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.13%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.13%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.26%) Power BI
3 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.13%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.13%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 20 (42.55%) Selenium
2 13 (27.66%) Cypress.io
3 11 (23.40%) Cucumber
4 9 (19.15%) Jenkins
5 8 (17.02%) WebDriver
6 7 (14.89%) REST Assured
7 6 (12.77%) SoapUI
8 5 (10.64%) Git
8 5 (10.64%) JMeter
8 5 (10.64%) JUnit
9 4 (8.51%) Postman
9 4 (8.51%) TestNG
10 3 (6.38%) GitLab
10 3 (6.38%) Maven
11 2 (4.26%) Gatling
11 2 (4.26%) Gradle
11 2 (4.26%) Mocha
12 1 (2.13%) Appium
12 1 (2.13%) SpecFlow
12 1 (2.13%) TestComplete
General
1 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Banking
3 6 (12.77%) Finance
3 6 (12.77%) Investment Banking
4 5 (10.64%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Front Office
5 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Back Office
6 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
6 1 (2.13%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.64%) Playwright
1 5 (10.64%) REST
2 4 (8.51%) Gherkin
2 4 (8.51%) Web Services
3 3 (6.38%) Chai
3 3 (6.38%) Jest
4 2 (4.26%) JAXB
4 2 (4.26%) JAX-RS
4 2 (4.26%) Middleware
4 2 (4.26%) Node.js
4 2 (4.26%) OAuth
4 2 (4.26%) OAuth2
4 2 (4.26%) OpenID
4 2 (4.26%) React
4 2 (4.26%) RESTful
4 2 (4.26%) SOAP
4 2 (4.26%) Spring
4 2 (4.26%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.13%) .NET
5 1 (2.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.13%) EMV
2 1 (2.13%) Equities
2 1 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 16 (34.04%) Agile
3 9 (19.15%) API Testing
4 8 (17.02%) DevOps
4 8 (17.02%) Scrum
4 8 (17.02%) Test Scripting
5 6 (12.77%) BDD
5 6 (12.77%) CI/CD
5 6 (12.77%) Microservices
5 6 (12.77%) SDET
5 6 (12.77%) Test Strategy
6 5 (10.64%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (8.51%) Software Testing
8 3 (6.38%) CRM
8 3 (6.38%) Exploratory Testing
8 3 (6.38%) Performance Testing
8 3 (6.38%) QA Automation
8 3 (6.38%) Scenario Testing
8 3 (6.38%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (6.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.79%) Java
2 12 (25.53%) C#
3 10 (21.28%) JavaScript
4 9 (19.15%) Python
5 8 (17.02%) SQL
6 6 (12.77%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.26%) C
7 2 (4.26%) Scala
8 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.13%) Degree
4 1 (2.13%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.15%) QA
2 4 (8.51%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.13%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 4 (8.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle
2 2 (4.26%) Salesforce
2 2 (4.26%) SAP
2 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
2 2 (4.26%) Wind River
3 1 (2.13%) FIS
3 1 (2.13%) Fiserv
3 1 (2.13%) IBM
3 1 (2.13%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (2.13%) VocaLink
3 1 (2.13%) Wincor Nixdorf
3 1 (2.13%) WorldPay