Test Automation Specialist Contracts with Work from Home Options

Automation Test Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation Test Specialist daily rate in Work from Home is £451 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 462 606
Rank change year-on-year +117 +144 -119
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Specialist 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.027% 0.008% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.008% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £428 - £453
25th Percentile £432 £369 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £388 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.45% -29.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £470 £406 £578
90th Percentile £473 - £584
UK median daily rate £453 £388 £550
% change year-on-year +16.77% -29.55% +22.22%

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 13,932 23,816 42,408
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.33% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,353 16,817 30,671
10th Percentile £325 £362 £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 £750 £750 £721
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 545 603
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.22 £25.71 £19.30
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +50.00% +44.03%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.15 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%

Test Automation Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Test Automation Specialist trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Automation Specialist
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 Test Automation Specialist.

Test Automation Specialist daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Test Automation Specialist 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 Test Automation Specialist in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (25.00%) IBM
4 1 (25.00%) Informatica
4 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (25.00%) JMeter
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Groovy
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
4 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy

Test Automation Specialist 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 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
4 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Groovy
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Confluent
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Informatica
1 1 (25.00%) StreamSets