Automation Tester Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Automation Tester
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation Tester daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £388, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 296 399
Rank change year-on-year +23 +103 +13
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 31 49 78
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.31% 0.32% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.34% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 40 60
10th Percentile £279 £355 £330
25th Percentile £336 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -12.82% +2.63%
75th Percentile £471 £500 £530
90th Percentile £575 £528 £550
UK median daily rate £443 £443 £475
% change year-on-year -0.11% -6.74% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Automation Tester
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Automation Tester trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Automation Tester
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Automation Tester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025, 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 31 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 18 (58.06%) CI/CD
3 17 (54.84%) Agile
3 17 (54.84%) Selenium
4 16 (51.61%) Cypress.io
5 15 (48.39%) Test Scripting
6 14 (45.16%) JavaScript
7 12 (38.71%) Java
7 12 (38.71%) Playwright
8 10 (32.26%) Postman
8 10 (32.26%) QA
8 10 (32.26%) SC Cleared
8 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
8 10 (32.26%) Jenkins
8 10 (32.26%) API Testing
9 9 (29.03%) DevOps
10 8 (25.81%) Test Strategy
10 8 (25.81%) AWS
10 8 (25.81%) Performance Testing
10 8 (25.81%) JIRA
10 8 (25.81%) REST Assured
11 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (22.58%) Software Testing
11 7 (22.58%) Azure
11 7 (22.58%) C#
11 7 (22.58%) JMeter
11 7 (22.58%) BDD
11 7 (22.58%) GitHub
11 7 (22.58%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (19.35%) Docker

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) AWS
2 7 (22.58%) Azure
2 7 (22.58%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (22.58%) GitHub
3 4 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (6.45%) BrowserStack
4 2 (6.45%) GCP
4 2 (6.45%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) 802.11
1 1 (3.23%) Bluetooth
1 1 (3.23%) Broadband
1 1 (3.23%) DOCSIS
1 1 (3.23%) SSH
1 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (3.23%) Wireless
1 1 (3.23%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (54.84%) Selenium
2 16 (51.61%) Cypress.io
3 10 (32.26%) Jenkins
3 10 (32.26%) Postman
4 8 (25.81%) JIRA
4 8 (25.81%) REST Assured
5 7 (22.58%) JMeter
6 5 (16.13%) Cucumber
6 5 (16.13%) Git
6 5 (16.13%) JUnit
7 4 (12.90%) Gatling
7 4 (12.90%) GitLab
7 4 (12.90%) HP UFT
7 4 (12.90%) TestComplete
8 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket
8 2 (6.45%) TestNG
8 2 (6.45%) TestRail
9 1 (3.23%) Gradle
9 1 (3.23%) Hamcrest
9 1 (3.23%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (19.35%) Finance
2 4 (12.90%) Banking
2 4 (12.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Law
5 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (38.71%) Playwright
2 4 (12.90%) .NET
2 4 (12.90%) WireMock
3 3 (9.68%) REST
4 2 (6.45%) Kafka
4 2 (6.45%) RESTful
5 1 (3.23%) 802.1X
5 1 (3.23%) DOM
5 1 (3.23%) HTML
5 1 (3.23%) jQuery
5 1 (3.23%) pytest
5 1 (3.23%) Spring
5 1 (3.23%) Web Services
5 1 (3.23%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.23%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.23%) IoT
2 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.23%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.23%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Windows
2 3 (9.68%) Android
2 3 (9.68%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 18 (58.06%) CI/CD
3 17 (54.84%) Agile
4 15 (48.39%) Test Scripting
5 10 (32.26%) API Testing
6 9 (29.03%) DevOps
7 8 (25.81%) Performance Testing
7 8 (25.81%) Test Strategy
8 7 (22.58%) BDD
8 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (22.58%) Software Testing
9 5 (16.13%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (16.13%) OO
9 5 (16.13%) OOP
9 5 (16.13%) Regression Testing
9 5 (16.13%) TDD
10 4 (12.90%) Integration Testing
10 4 (12.90%) Scrum
10 4 (12.90%) System Testing
10 4 (12.90%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) JavaScript
2 12 (38.71%) Java
3 7 (22.58%) C#
4 5 (16.13%) Python
4 5 (16.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) SC Cleared
1 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (32.26%) QA
2 5 (16.13%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Bloomberg
1 4 (12.90%) Reuters
2 2 (6.45%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.23%) SAP
3 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.23%) Splunk