Test Automation Contracts in Yorkshire

Automated Testing
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 37 36
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +11
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 58 69 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 5.70% 4.09% 4.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.17% 4.73% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 42 72
10th Percentile £301 £372 £413
25th Percentile £360 £405 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £499 £600
90th Percentile £696 £575 £686
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.04% +2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Test Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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
South Yorkshire +23 29 £520 +27.55% 15
West Yorkshire -6 28 £444 -6.58% 39
North Yorkshire +7 1 £300 -29.41% 8
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 12 (20.69%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.97%) AWS
2 9 (15.52%) Azure
3 6 (10.34%) GitHub
3 6 (10.34%) Slack
4 5 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.62%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (5.17%) GCP
6 2 (3.45%) npm
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.72%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.72%) SaaS
7 1 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.07%) HTTP
2 2 (3.45%) Network Security
2 2 (3.45%) SAN
3 1 (1.72%) BGP
3 1 (1.72%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (1.72%) DNS
3 1 (1.72%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (1.72%) Firewall
3 1 (1.72%) OSPF
3 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.97%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (15.52%) MongoDB
3 7 (12.07%) Apache Cassandra
3 7 (12.07%) MySQL
4 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.45%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.72%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (50.00%) JIRA
2 27 (46.55%) Selenium
3 24 (41.38%) Git
4 13 (22.41%) Cucumber
4 13 (22.41%) Postman
5 12 (20.69%) JUnit
6 9 (15.52%) IntelliJ
6 9 (15.52%) Maven
7 8 (13.79%) Jenkins
8 7 (12.07%) Jasmine
9 6 (10.34%) Cypress.io
10 4 (6.90%) Gradle
10 4 (6.90%) HP UFT
10 4 (6.90%) SoapUI
11 2 (3.45%) GitLab
11 2 (3.45%) JMeter
11 2 (3.45%) TestNG
11 2 (3.45%) webpack
12 1 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (1.72%) Vagrant
General
1 12 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.79%) Banking
3 7 (12.07%) Finance
4 6 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) Tester
2 12 (20.69%) Developer
3 8 (13.79%) Java Developer
3 8 (13.79%) Senior
4 7 (12.07%) QA Tester
5 6 (10.34%) Senior Developer
5 6 (10.34%) Test Manager
6 5 (8.62%) Architect
6 5 (8.62%) Automation Tester
6 5 (8.62%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (8.62%) Test Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) QA Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Lead
8 3 (5.17%) Manual Tester
8 3 (5.17%) QA Manual Tester
8 3 (5.17%) Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 2 (3.45%) QA Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.24%) RESTful
2 8 (13.79%) Spring Boot
3 7 (12.07%) REST
3 7 (12.07%) Spring
3 7 (12.07%) Spring Security
4 6 (10.34%) Spring Batch
4 6 (10.34%) Swagger
5 5 (8.62%) OpenAPI
5 5 (8.62%) pytest
6 4 (6.90%) Web Services
7 3 (5.17%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.17%) Gherkin
8 2 (3.45%) CSS
8 2 (3.45%) Flask
8 2 (3.45%) HTML
8 2 (3.45%) Playwright
8 2 (3.45%) SOAP
9 1 (1.72%) Nightwatchjs
9 1 (1.72%) XML
9 1 (1.72%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (5.17%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.17%) NHS
3 2 (3.45%) EMC VMAX
3 2 (3.45%) Mainframe
3 2 (3.45%) Replication
3 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.72%) AS400
4 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.72%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (1.72%) iSeries
4 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.24%) Linux
2 7 (12.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.72%) Android
3 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.72%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.93%) CI/CD
1 22 (37.93%) DevOps
2 18 (31.03%) Agile
3 14 (24.14%) BDD
3 14 (24.14%) Test Strategy
4 13 (22.41%) API Testing
4 13 (22.41%) Continuous Delivery
4 13 (22.41%) Microservices
4 13 (22.41%) TDD
5 11 (18.97%) Mentoring
5 11 (18.97%) Non-Functional Testing
6 10 (17.24%) OWASP
6 10 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (15.52%) Containerisation
7 9 (15.52%) Manual Testing
8 8 (13.79%) Cloud Security
8 8 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (13.79%) Workflow
9 7 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (12.07%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 21 (36.21%) Java
2 12 (20.69%) Bash
2 12 (20.69%) SQL
3 11 (18.97%) Python
4 4 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.45%) Go
6 2 (3.45%) JCL
6 2 (3.45%) REXX
6 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.72%) Ruby
7 1 (1.72%) XPath
Qualifications
1 11 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 10 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.72%) CCNP
4 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.72%) Degree
4 1 (1.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (39.66%) QA
2 4 (6.90%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (15.52%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 9 (15.52%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.34%) Ansible
3 3 (5.17%) Puppet
3 3 (5.17%) Terraform
4 2 (3.45%) Control-M
4 2 (3.45%) Grafana
4 2 (3.45%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.45%) vRealize
5 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.90%) Cisco
3 2 (3.45%) 3PAR
3 2 (3.45%) Brio
3 2 (3.45%) Brocade
3 2 (3.45%) EMC
3 2 (3.45%) HP
3 2 (3.45%) IBM
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle
3 2 (3.45%) Splunk
3 2 (3.45%) VMware
4 1 (1.72%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.72%) Databricks
4 1 (1.72%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.72%) F5
4 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow