Test Automation Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Automation Test Engineer
England > North of England

The median Automation Test Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 186 237
Rank change year-on-year +18 +51 -73
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 9 19 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.19% 0.34% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.36% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 6
10th Percentile £400 £420 £436
25th Percentile £409 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% +12.43%
75th Percentile £513 £625 £488
90th Percentile £575 - £519
England median daily rate £463 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -15.91% +3.77% +24.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,308 5,322 6,838
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 95.44% 96.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,698 3,719 4,995
10th Percentile £263 £280 £200
25th Percentile £388 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £563
90th Percentile £670 £686 £644
England median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% +7.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 413 157 288
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.15 £11.24
25th Percentile £12.70 £17.72 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.43 £29.30 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.86% +54.21% +8.57%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.40 £33.79
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.28 £58.75
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +6.98%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Engineer in the North of England

Test Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation Engineer in the North of England

Test Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation Engineer in the North of England

Test Automation Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 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
North West +15 5 £438 -14.63% 2
Yorkshire +18 4 £550 -
Test Automation Engineer
England

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Test Automation Engineer 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 North of England region featuring Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (55.56%) C#
2 5 (55.56%) Java
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Selenium
3 4 (44.44%) Open Source
4 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 3 (33.33%) TDD
4 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) JUnit
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Playwright
4 3 (33.33%) QA
5 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
5 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
5 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (22.22%) API Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
5 2 (22.22%) Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
5 2 (22.22%) User Stories
5 2 (22.22%) Finance
5 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
5 2 (22.22%) System Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Kanban
5 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
5 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
5 2 (22.22%) AWS

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Selenium
2 3 (33.33%) JUnit
3 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
3 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 2 (22.22%) SpecFlow
4 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
4 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (11.11%) JIRA
4 1 (11.11%) JMeter
4 1 (11.11%) REST Assured
4 1 (11.11%) TestNG
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Playwright
2 2 (22.22%) Gherkin
3 1 (11.11%) pytest
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Open Source
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 3 (33.33%) TDD
3 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) API Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (22.22%) Kanban
4 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) System Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
4 2 (22.22%) User Stories
5 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C#
1 5 (55.56%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform