Test Automation Contracts in Lancashire

Automated Testing
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 34 24
Rank change year-on-year +2 -10 +7
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 3 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.17% 2.06% 5.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 2.36% 5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £366 £375 £401
25th Percentile £372 £384 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £400 £423
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -5.33% +23.18%
75th Percentile £397 £472 £516
90th Percentile £399 £511 £539
North West median daily rate £509 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +1.75% -4.31% +22.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 193 212 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 75.10% 87.24% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 110 173
10th Percentile £257 £309 £208
25th Percentile £400 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £607 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £700 £750
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 47 30
10th Percentile - £21.32 £12.97
25th Percentile £16.06 £29.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £35.36 £42.50 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +53.67% +50.80%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £49.90
90th Percentile £48.00 £56.38 £96.02
North West median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
% change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Lancashire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Lancashire

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Lancashire

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Preston - 2 £388 -
Lancaster - 1 - -
Test Automation
North West

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) TestComplete
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Data Interpretation
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) OOP
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
1 1 (33.33%) SDLC
1 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
1 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Delphi
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) VBScript
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Blue Prism