Test Automation Contracts in Yorkshire

Automated Testing
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 34 45
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 -25
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 65 111 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.88% 4.89% 4.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 5.37% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 78 76
10th Percentile £362 £413 £351
25th Percentile £400 £475 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £478
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.18% +6.11%
75th Percentile £517 £650 £523
90th Percentile £575 £700 £575
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £61.25 £74.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.23% +23.33% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,444 2,066 2,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.21% 91.01% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,369 1,745
10th Percentile £275 £284 £260
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% +9.71%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £555
90th Percentile £650 £700 £647
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 64 81
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.70
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -40.94% -8.59%
75th Percentile £22.00 £21.21 £22.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £54.84 £27.50
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Yorkshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Yorkshire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Yorkshire

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Yorkshire

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
West Yorkshire -2 50 £475 -13.64% 24
South Yorkshire -8 14 £400 -28.89% 3
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.54%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.77%) Azure
2 6 (9.23%) AWS
2 6 (9.23%) GitHub
3 5 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.62%) GCP
5 2 (3.08%) Azure Functions
5 2 (3.08%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (3.08%) Serverless
5 2 (3.08%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) DHCP
1 3 (4.62%) DNS
1 3 (4.62%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (4.62%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.15%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.08%) GIS
2 2 (3.08%) InterSystems Cache
2 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.08%) Redis
3 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.54%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 19 (29.23%) Selenium
2 8 (12.31%) JMeter
3 7 (10.77%) Cucumber
3 7 (10.77%) Jenkins
3 7 (10.77%) JIRA
4 5 (7.69%) JUnit
4 5 (7.69%) Postman
5 4 (6.15%) Git
6 3 (4.62%) Cypress.io
6 3 (4.62%) WebDriver
6 3 (4.62%) XCUITest
7 2 (3.08%) Gatling
7 2 (3.08%) Mockito
7 2 (3.08%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (1.54%) GitLab
8 1 (1.54%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.54%) TestNG
8 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.62%) Finance
3 10 (15.38%) Banking
4 3 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.62%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.08%) Health Technology
5 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (21.54%) Developer
1 14 (21.54%) Tester
2 11 (16.92%) Automation Tester
3 9 (13.85%) Test Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) Senior
5 6 (9.23%) Architect
6 4 (6.15%) Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Automation Developer
6 4 (6.15%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Test Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Test Manager
7 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (4.62%) Lead
7 3 (4.62%) QA Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) QA Test Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.31%) Gherkin
2 4 (6.15%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (6.15%) CSS
2 4 (6.15%) HTML
2 4 (6.15%) Kafka
3 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
3 3 (4.62%) LDAP
3 3 (4.62%) React
3 3 (4.62%) Web Services
4 2 (3.08%) JAX-RS
4 2 (3.08%) JSON
4 2 (3.08%) Node.js
4 2 (3.08%) OpenLayers
4 2 (3.08%) Playwright
4 2 (3.08%) PostGIS
4 2 (3.08%) REST
4 2 (3.08%) SignalR
5 1 (1.54%) OAuth
5 1 (1.54%) OpenID
5 1 (1.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.15%) CMDB
2 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.62%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.62%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.08%) NHS
5 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.54%) Mashup
5 1 (1.54%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.15%) Mac OS X
1 4 (6.15%) Unix
2 3 (4.62%) Windows
2 3 (4.62%) Windows 10
2 3 (4.62%) Windows 7
3 2 (3.08%) Android
3 2 (3.08%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (61.54%) Agile
2 21 (32.31%) CI/CD
2 21 (32.31%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (26.15%) DevOps
4 14 (21.54%) TDD
4 14 (21.54%) Test Strategy
5 12 (18.46%) Scrum
6 11 (16.92%) User Stories
7 10 (15.38%) BDD
7 10 (15.38%) Change Management
7 10 (15.38%) Test Scripting
8 9 (13.85%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (13.85%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (13.85%) Manual Testing
8 9 (13.85%) Project Management
9 8 (12.31%) Analytics
9 8 (12.31%) Kanban
9 8 (12.31%) Microservices
9 8 (12.31%) Test Planning
10 7 (10.77%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.00%) Java
2 14 (21.54%) JavaScript
3 8 (12.31%) Python
4 7 (10.77%) TypeScript
5 6 (9.23%) PowerShell
6 5 (7.69%) Bash
7 3 (4.62%) Scala
8 2 (3.08%) C
8 2 (3.08%) C#
8 2 (3.08%) Groovy
8 2 (3.08%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.54%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.62%) Degree
2 3 (4.62%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (4.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (35.38%) QA
2 4 (6.15%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) GRC
3 1 (1.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (9.23%) Docker
2 3 (4.62%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.62%) KVM
2 3 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (4.62%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.62%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 5 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.15%) Terraform
3 3 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (4.62%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.54%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.15%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.62%) SAP
3 3 (4.62%) VMware
4 2 (3.08%) Google
5 1 (1.54%) Ariba
5 1 (1.54%) Brio
5 1 (1.54%) Databricks
5 1 (1.54%) Wind River