QA Automation Contracts in England

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 588 690
Rank change year-on-year +63 +102 -109
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 26 49 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.070% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.082% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 41 66
10th Percentile £424 £330 £403
25th Percentile £461 £400 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £509 £481
Median % change year-on-year +0.79% +5.66% +10.63%
75th Percentile £694 £563 £588
90th Percentile - £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - - £68.17
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £68.17
% change year-on-year - - +81.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

QA 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in England

QA Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Automation in England.

Daily rate trend for QA Automation in England

QA Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Automation in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Automation in England

QA Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA Automation in England.

Hourly rate trend for QA Automation in England

QA Automation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
North of England +25 12 £663 +28.14%
North West +25 11 £663 +19.05%
London +77 10 £500 -4.76% 3
Midlands +20 1 £380 -16.94%
Yorkshire +17 1 - -
East Midlands +11 1 £380 +2.70%
South East +10 1 £475 +13.43%
QA Automation
UK

QA Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (19.23%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (30.77%) Amazon ECR
2 8 (30.77%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (30.77%) Amazon S3
2 8 (30.77%) Amazon SQS
2 8 (30.77%) Route 53
2 8 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (19.23%) BrowserStack
4 4 (15.38%) Azure
5 3 (11.54%) BlazeMeter
5 3 (11.54%) Firebase
5 3 (11.54%) Sauce Labs
6 2 (7.69%) GitHub
6 2 (7.69%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.85%) GCP
7 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (15.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (46.15%) GitLab
2 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
3 8 (30.77%) Cucumber
3 8 (30.77%) Selenium
3 8 (30.77%) webpack
4 7 (26.92%) Appium
5 6 (23.08%) JIRA
5 6 (23.08%) Postman
6 5 (19.23%) Git
6 5 (19.23%) JMeter
7 3 (11.54%) Bitbucket
7 3 (11.54%) Cypress.io
7 3 (11.54%) SpecFlow
8 2 (7.69%) REST Assured
8 2 (7.69%) WebDriver
9 1 (3.85%) Mockito
9 1 (3.85%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (3.85%) SoapUI
9 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (3.85%) XCUITest
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Banking
2 3 (11.54%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.85%) Front Office
4 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Lead
1 7 (26.92%) QA Automation Engineer
1 7 (26.92%) QA Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Tester
4 4 (15.38%) Technical Leader
5 3 (11.54%) Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Automation Tester
5 3 (11.54%) QA Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) QA Test Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) QA Tester
5 3 (11.54%) Test Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Automation Test Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) QA Automation Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) QA Automation Tester
6 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Test Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) Express.js
1 8 (30.77%) Node.js
1 8 (30.77%) React
1 8 (30.77%) Redux
2 5 (19.23%) WebdriverIO
3 3 (11.54%) .NET
3 3 (11.54%) Middleware
4 2 (7.69%) Gherkin
4 2 (7.69%) Playwright
4 2 (7.69%) pytest
5 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.85%) Kafka
5 1 (3.85%) OAuth
5 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
5 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.85%) REST
5 1 (3.85%) RESTful
5 1 (3.85%) SAML
5 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
1 1 (3.85%) Derivative
1 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Fat Client
1 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Android
1 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.85%) Unix
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (88.46%) Test Automation
2 14 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 10 (38.46%) End-to-End Testing
4 9 (34.62%) Agile
4 9 (34.62%) ETL
5 8 (30.77%) API Development
5 8 (30.77%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 8 (30.77%) BDD
5 8 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 8 (30.77%) Customer Engagement
5 8 (30.77%) Front End Development
5 8 (30.77%) Full Stack Development
6 5 (19.23%) API Testing
6 5 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (19.23%) Performance Testing
7 4 (15.38%) DevOps
7 4 (15.38%) SDET
7 4 (15.38%) Software Testing
8 3 (11.54%) Conversational UI
8 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Java
2 4 (15.38%) C#
3 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.54%) Python
3 3 (11.54%) SQL
4 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.85%) Go
5 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (42.31%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Perfecto Mobile
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow