Test Automation Architect Contracts in England

Automation Test Architect
UK > England

The median Automation Test Architect daily rate in England is £444, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 508 584 748
Rank change year-on-year +76 +164 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Architect 6 5 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.019% 0.012% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.013% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 16
10th Percentile £327 £424 £458
25th Percentile £367 £441 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £488 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.97% -9.30% +2.38%
75th Percentile £530 £513 £637
90th Percentile £576 £535 £649
UK median daily rate £444 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -11.25% -6.98% +2.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 28,953 37,638 64,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.75% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,172 45,824
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £418 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 1,422 1,621
10th Percentile £15.10 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.15 £19.25 £16.69
Median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%
75th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Test Automation Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Test Automation Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Architect in England

Test Automation Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation Architect in England

Test Automation Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation Architect in England

Test Automation Architect
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 Test Automation Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
London +53 5 £444 -4.05%
South East - 1 - - 1
Test Automation Architect
UK

Test Automation Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Test Automation Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Test Automation Architect in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (83.33%) Test Strategy
2 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (83.33%) Test Scripting
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (83.33%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) TDD
3 4 (66.67%) NUnit
3 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
3 4 (66.67%) .NET
3 4 (66.67%) C#
3 4 (66.67%) OOP
3 4 (66.67%) Git
3 4 (66.67%) WPF
3 4 (66.67%) .NET Framework
3 4 (66.67%) Data Management
3 4 (66.67%) eggPlant
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
3 4 (66.67%) BDD
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) SpecFlow
3 4 (66.67%) WebDriver
3 4 (66.67%) Azure

Test Automation Architect Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Tricentis Tosca
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
2 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
3 4 (66.67%) eggPlant
3 4 (66.67%) Git
3 4 (66.67%) NUnit
3 4 (66.67%) SpecFlow
3 4 (66.67%) WebDriver
4 1 (16.67%) Bugzilla
4 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (16.67%) GitLab
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) JMeter
4 1 (16.67%) JUnit
4 1 (16.67%) TestNG
4 1 (16.67%) TestRail
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) .NET Framework
1 4 (66.67%) WPF
2 3 (50.00%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (83.33%) Test Scripting
2 5 (83.33%) Test Strategy
3 4 (66.67%) BDD
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (66.67%) Data Management
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) OOP
3 4 (66.67%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (16.67%) Kanban
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) Java
3 4 (66.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Keysight