Test Automation Manager Contracts in England

Automation Test Manager
UK > England

The median Automation Test Manager daily rate in England is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 627 764
Rank change year-on-year +84 +137 -123
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Manager 8 10 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.021% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.022% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 11
10th Percentile £328 £456 -
25th Percentile £359 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.84% +3.57% +20.00%
75th Percentile £444 £673 £563
90th Percentile £448 £738 £588
UK median daily rate £425 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -21.84% +3.57% +20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Test Automation Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Manager in England

Test Automation Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation Manager in England

Test Automation Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation Manager in England

Test Automation Manager
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 Manager 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
South East +13 4 £425 -15.00%
London +93 2 £381 -41.35%
South West - 2 - -
Test Automation Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Test Automation Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Selenium
3 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
3 3 (37.50%) JIRA
3 3 (37.50%) SpecFlow
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Postman
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Ansible
4 2 (25.00%) Terraform
4 2 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (25.00%) API Testing
4 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (25.00%) Unix
4 2 (25.00%) Windows
4 2 (25.00%) Windows 2000
4 2 (25.00%) Windows XP
4 2 (25.00%) VMS
4 2 (25.00%) Juniper
4 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (25.00%) Firewall
5 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (12.50%) VMware

Test Automation Manager 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 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Selenium
2 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 3 (37.50%) Postman
2 3 (37.50%) SpecFlow
3 1 (12.50%) Ranorex
General
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
1 2 (25.00%) VMS
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows 2000
1 2 (25.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
3 2 (25.00%) API Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Defect Management
4 1 (12.50%) ETL
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Load Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 1 (12.50%) SDET
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (12.50%) VMware