Test Automation Contracts in the Midlands

Automated Testing
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 64 66
Rank change year-on-year -28 +2 -14
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 41 108 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.52% 3.29% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 3.72% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 86 131
10th Percentile £335 £285 £325
25th Percentile £363 £364 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £432
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +9.95% +8.00%
75th Percentile £532 £547 £522
90th Percentile £545 £628 £620
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.00
Median hourly rate - - £39.00
75th Percentile - - £41.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £77.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -22.08% +28.33% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Test 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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,214 2,900 4,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.21% 88.33% 87.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,032 3,228
10th Percentile £238 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 107 146
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.92 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.76 £13.74
Median hourly rate £18.00 £20.71 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.06% +18.31% +14.01%
75th Percentile £33.25 £31.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £56.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
West Midlands -16 24 £430 -16.10% 46
East Midlands -6 17 £400 +5.26% 28
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (7.32%) CANalyzer
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.95%) Azure
2 7 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (9.76%) AWS
4 2 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.44%) GCP
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub
5 1 (2.44%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Network Security
2 1 (2.44%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.44%) FlexRay
2 1 (2.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.88%) Big Data
4 1 (2.44%) MySQL
4 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) Cypress.io
2 6 (14.63%) JMeter
3 3 (7.32%) CANoe
3 3 (7.32%) JIRA
3 3 (7.32%) SoapUI
3 3 (7.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (7.32%) Visual Studio
4 2 (4.88%) Appium
4 2 (4.88%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.88%) Git
4 2 (4.88%) Postman
4 2 (4.88%) Selenium
4 2 (4.88%) UI Automator
4 2 (4.88%) XCUITest
4 2 (4.88%) Zephyr
5 1 (2.44%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.44%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.44%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.76%) Finance
4 3 (7.32%) Automotive
4 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.88%) Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.44%) Electronics
6 1 (2.44%) Games
6 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.44%) Marketing
6 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Tester
2 7 (17.07%) Analyst
2 7 (17.07%) Automation Tester
3 6 (14.63%) Developer
4 5 (12.20%) Angular Developer
5 4 (9.76%) QA Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Performance Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Performance Test Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Software Integration Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Test Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Automation Test Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Mobile Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Process Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) QA Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) QA Tester
7 2 (4.88%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) AngularJS
1 5 (12.20%) CSS
1 5 (12.20%) HTML
2 3 (7.32%) SOAP
2 3 (7.32%) Web Services
3 2 (4.88%) React
3 2 (4.88%) RESTful
3 2 (4.88%) XML
4 1 (2.44%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.44%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.44%) gRPC
4 1 (2.44%) JMS
4 1 (2.44%) Kafka
4 1 (2.44%) Next.js
4 1 (2.44%) Playwright
4 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.44%) RAML
4 1 (2.44%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Infotainment
2 2 (4.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.44%) e-Learning
3 1 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.44%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Android
1 2 (4.88%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.44%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Agile
2 13 (31.71%) DevOps
3 9 (21.95%) Software Testing
4 8 (19.51%) Test Scripting
5 7 (17.07%) Functional Testing
5 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (17.07%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (14.63%) System Integration Testing
6 6 (14.63%) Test Strategy
7 5 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (12.20%) End-to-End Testing
7 5 (12.20%) Exploratory Testing
7 5 (12.20%) Scenario Testing
8 4 (9.76%) Micro Frontends
8 4 (9.76%) Performance Testing
8 4 (9.76%) Scrum
9 3 (7.32%) Data Acquisition
9 3 (7.32%) Data Design
9 3 (7.32%) Project Management
9 3 (7.32%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.63%) SQL
1 6 (14.63%) TypeScript
2 3 (7.32%) Java
2 3 (7.32%) Python
3 2 (4.88%) Kotlin
3 2 (4.88%) Swift
4 1 (2.44%) C#
4 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) ISTQB
2 7 (17.07%) ISEB
3 6 (14.63%) Security Cleared
4 4 (9.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (9.76%) Degree
5 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (24.39%) QA
2 4 (9.76%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.88%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Docker
1 3 (7.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) Ansible
2 1 (2.44%) Functional Safety
2 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.44%) Puppet
2 1 (2.44%) Rancher
2 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
1 5 (12.20%) ServiceNow
2 2 (4.88%) Databricks
3 1 (2.44%) Guidewire
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle
3 1 (2.44%) VMware