Test Automation Contracts in Birmingham

Automated Testing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 40 60
Rank change year-on-year +3 +20 -11
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 30 31 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.26% 4.02% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.05% 4.85% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 24 27
10th Percentile £322 - £310
25th Percentile £376 £388 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year -1.06% +13.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £681 £505 £550
90th Percentile £756 £546 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £500 £428
% change year-on-year +2.60% +16.82% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 639 1,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 84.38% 82.88% 88.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 420 757
10th Percentile £196 £275 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% +8.89%
75th Percentile £638 £606 £600
90th Percentile £750 £725 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £519 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.80% - +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 22 12
10th Percentile £14.70 £14.64 £12.52
25th Percentile £20.88 £25.31 £14.04
Median hourly rate £26.13 £30.52 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +64.97% +31.86%
75th Percentile £53.88 £67.50 £20.94
90th Percentile £57.25 - £42.59
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.18 £27.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -12.07% +55.19% +18.13%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Birmingham

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Birmingham

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Birmingham over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Birmingham

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Birmingham

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (13.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) BlazeMeter
2 6 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (13.33%) Boomi
3 4 (13.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) AWS
4 1 (3.33%) Azure App Service
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub
4 1 (3.33%) OCI
4 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (40.00%) VoIP
2 10 (33.33%) DNS
3 9 (30.00%) DHCP
3 9 (30.00%) INAP
3 9 (30.00%) RTP
4 6 (20.00%) Intelligent Network
5 3 (10.00%) Firewall
5 3 (10.00%) HTTP
6 2 (6.67%) FTP
6 2 (6.67%) Network Security
7 1 (3.33%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (3.33%) Ethernet
7 1 (3.33%) IOS XR
7 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
7 1 (3.33%) SNMP
7 1 (3.33%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (3.33%) SSH
7 1 (3.33%) TACACS
7 1 (3.33%) Wireless
7 1 (3.33%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 17 (56.67%) Selenium
2 13 (43.33%) Robot Framework
3 12 (40.00%) JMeter
3 12 (40.00%) Locust
3 12 (40.00%) TestCafe
4 6 (20.00%) JIRA
5 4 (13.33%) JUnit
5 4 (13.33%) LoadRunner
6 3 (10.00%) TeamCity
7 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
7 1 (3.33%) Git
7 1 (3.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 14 (46.67%) Telecoms
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Games
4 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Electronics
5 1 (3.33%) Marketing
5 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Engineering Specialist
1 7 (23.33%) QA Specialist
2 6 (20.00%) Senior
3 5 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Manager
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Test Manager
4 4 (13.33%) Telecoms Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Telecoms Test Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Test Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) OAT Tester
5 2 (6.67%) Test Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Tester
6 1 (3.33%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (3.33%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Developer
6 1 (3.33%) QA Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) LDAP
1 9 (30.00%) Taurus
2 1 (3.33%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.33%) Entity Framework
2 1 (3.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.33%) Swagger
2 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (43.33%) Windows
2 12 (40.00%) Linux
3 10 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 9 (30.00%) CentOS
4 9 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (43.33%) Performance Testing
3 9 (30.00%) Build Automation
3 9 (30.00%) ITIL
4 8 (26.67%) Test Strategy
5 7 (23.33%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 6 (20.00%) Test Management
7 5 (16.67%) Functional Testing
7 5 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
8 4 (13.33%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
8 4 (13.33%) Defect Management
8 4 (13.33%) DevOps
8 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (10.00%) Agile
9 3 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
9 3 (10.00%) Microservices
9 3 (10.00%) Robotic Process Automation
9 3 (10.00%) SIEM
9 3 (10.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) Python
2 3 (10.00%) C#
2 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (53.33%) Terraform
2 13 (43.33%) Ansible
3 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.33%) Puppet
3 1 (3.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Dialogic
1 9 (30.00%) Metaswitch
2 4 (13.33%) Dell
2 4 (13.33%) Salesforce
2 4 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Perforce
4 1 (3.33%) Ciena
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
4 1 (3.33%) Guidewire
4 1 (3.33%) Meraki
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) SAP
4 1 (3.33%) SYSPRO
4 1 (3.33%) VMware