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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 45 35
Rank change year-on-year +10 -10 +14
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 59 68 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 5.66% 4.10% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.14% 4.78% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 42 78
10th Percentile £304 £391 £413
25th Percentile £379 £419 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +15.18%
75th Percentile £542 £550 £650
90th Percentile £600 £584 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -18.92% +29.05%

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 961 1,422 2,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.14% 85.82% 90.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 861 1,336
10th Percentile £263 £275 £275
25th Percentile £375 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +7.69%
75th Percentile £550 £582 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 66 63
10th Percentile £14.86 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.27 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.12 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +56.44% +27.00% -40.94%
75th Percentile £22.14 £22.00 £20.97
90th Percentile £34.24 £53.75 £55.23
England median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%

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 20 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 20 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
West Yorkshire -4 30 £431 -9.21% 70
South Yorkshire +20 28 £520 +12.99% 22
North Yorkshire - 1 £300 - 15
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 8 (13.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.34%) AWS
2 9 (15.25%) Azure
3 6 (10.17%) GitHub
4 5 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.08%) GCP
5 3 (5.08%) npm
6 2 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.39%) Serverless
6 2 (3.39%) Slack
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.69%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.69%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.47%) HTTP
2 2 (3.39%) SAN
3 1 (1.69%) BGP
3 1 (1.69%) DNS
3 1 (1.69%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (1.69%) Network Security
3 1 (1.69%) OSPF
3 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.78%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (3.39%) InfluxDB
4 2 (3.39%) MySQL
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.69%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 31 (52.54%) Selenium
2 24 (40.68%) JIRA
3 21 (35.59%) Git
4 18 (30.51%) Postman
5 13 (22.03%) Jenkins
5 13 (22.03%) Maven
6 12 (20.34%) Cucumber
7 10 (16.95%) Cypress.io
7 10 (16.95%) JUnit
8 9 (15.25%) IntelliJ
9 8 (13.56%) GitLab
10 7 (11.86%) JMeter
10 7 (11.86%) TestNG
11 6 (10.17%) REST Assured
12 4 (6.78%) Gradle
12 4 (6.78%) HP UFT
12 4 (6.78%) SoapUI
13 3 (5.08%) webpack
14 2 (3.39%) Jasmine
15 1 (1.69%) Vagrant
General
1 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.56%) Banking
3 6 (10.17%) Finance
3 6 (10.17%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (27.12%) Tester
2 10 (16.95%) Test Engineer
3 9 (15.25%) Developer
4 7 (11.86%) QA Tester
4 7 (11.86%) Test Manager
5 6 (10.17%) Automation Tester
5 6 (10.17%) Senior
6 5 (8.47%) Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Angular Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Manual Tester
8 3 (5.08%) QA Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) QA Manual Tester
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Data Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.56%) pytest
1 8 (13.56%) REST
2 7 (11.86%) Playwright
3 6 (10.17%) RESTful
4 5 (8.47%) Web Services
5 4 (6.78%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.08%) CSS
6 3 (5.08%) Flask
6 3 (5.08%) HTML
6 3 (5.08%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.39%) Gherkin
7 2 (3.39%) OpenAPI
7 2 (3.39%) SOAP
7 2 (3.39%) Spring
7 2 (3.39%) Spring Batch
7 2 (3.39%) Spring Security
7 2 (3.39%) Swagger
8 1 (1.69%) Kafka
8 1 (1.69%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (1.69%) Nightwatchjs
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.08%) Data Centre
1 3 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (5.08%) NHS
2 2 (3.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (3.39%) EMC VMAX
2 2 (3.39%) Mainframe
2 2 (3.39%) Replication
2 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.69%) AS400
3 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.69%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (1.69%) iSeries
3 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.17%) Linux
2 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.69%) Android
3 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (45.76%) CI/CD
2 23 (38.98%) Agile
3 22 (37.29%) DevOps
4 18 (30.51%) API Testing
5 16 (27.12%) Test Strategy
6 15 (25.42%) TDD
7 14 (23.73%) BDD
8 12 (20.34%) Non-Functional Testing
9 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (16.95%) Microservices
10 10 (16.95%) Test Scripting
11 9 (15.25%) Manual Testing
11 9 (15.25%) Workflow
12 8 (13.56%) Continuous Delivery
12 8 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (11.86%) Mentoring
14 6 (10.17%) Continuous Integration
14 6 (10.17%) Project Management
14 6 (10.17%) QA Automation
14 6 (10.17%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 21 (35.59%) Java
2 15 (25.42%) Python
3 8 (13.56%) Bash
3 8 (13.56%) JavaScript
3 8 (13.56%) SQL
4 3 (5.08%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.39%) Go
5 2 (3.39%) JCL
5 2 (3.39%) REXX
6 1 (1.69%) Ruby
6 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.69%) XPath
Qualifications
1 16 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.69%) CCNP
3 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.69%) Degree
3 1 (1.69%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (44.07%) QA
2 9 (15.25%) Accessibility
3 5 (8.47%) WCAG
4 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (18.64%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 6 (10.17%) Ansible
1 6 (10.17%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.08%) Puppet
2 3 (5.08%) Terraform
3 2 (3.39%) Control-M
3 2 (3.39%) Grafana
3 2 (3.39%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.39%) vRealize
4 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (10.17%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.08%) Cisco
3 2 (3.39%) 3PAR
3 2 (3.39%) Brio
3 2 (3.39%) Brocade
3 2 (3.39%) EMC
3 2 (3.39%) HP
3 2 (3.39%) IBM
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle
3 2 (3.39%) Splunk
3 2 (3.39%) VMware
4 1 (1.69%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.69%) Databricks
4 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.69%) F5
4 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow