Test Automation Contracts in the North of England

Automated Testing
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 55 41 49
Rank change year-on-year -14 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 156 246 323
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.36% 4.40% 4.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 4.86% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 180 242
10th Percentile £400 £375 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £604 £584
90th Percentile £597 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 2
10th Percentile - £66.73 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £68.94 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £72.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% +11.92% +147.81%
75th Percentile £72.19 £76.44 -
90th Percentile £74.50 £78.58 -
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
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,971 5,062 6,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.53% 90.60% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 3,499 4,622
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £401 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £569
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 201 266
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.72 £13.56
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.98 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +46.32% +5.90%
75th Percentile £45.00 £44.50 £36.75
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £62.86
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the North of England

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in the North of England

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in the North of England

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in the North of England

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Automation in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Automation in the North of England

Test Automation
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 within the North of England 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
North West +13 84 £500 +1.55% 73
Yorkshire -9 67 £475 -13.64% 31
North East -23 5 £405 -28.32% 4
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.21%) Apache
1 5 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.21%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.92%) Confluence
3 1 (0.64%) Alfresco
Applications
1 4 (2.56%) Simulink
1 4 (2.56%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 40 (25.64%) AWS
2 15 (9.62%) Azure
3 13 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 13 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
4 10 (6.41%) GitHub
5 9 (5.77%) Serverless
6 8 (5.13%) Amazon ECR
6 8 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.13%) Route 53
6 8 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.21%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (3.21%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.92%) BrowserStack
9 3 (1.92%) GCP
10 2 (1.28%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.28%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.21%) FTP
2 4 (2.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.41%) MongoDB
2 8 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.21%) Big Data
4 5 (3.21%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.28%) GIS
5 2 (1.28%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (1.28%) MySQL
5 2 (1.28%) Redis
6 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.64%) Power BI
6 1 (0.64%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (21.79%) Selenium
2 21 (13.46%) Git
3 16 (10.26%) Jenkins
3 16 (10.26%) JIRA
4 15 (9.62%) Cucumber
5 14 (8.97%) GitLab
6 11 (7.05%) JMeter
7 10 (6.41%) Postman
8 9 (5.77%) Cypress.io
9 8 (5.13%) webpack
10 7 (4.49%) JUnit
11 6 (3.85%) WebDriver
12 5 (3.21%) Gatling
13 4 (2.56%) SpecFlow
13 4 (2.56%) TeamCity
14 3 (1.92%) Bitbucket
14 3 (1.92%) Mocha
14 3 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
14 3 (1.92%) REST Assured
14 3 (1.92%) TestCafe
General
1 31 (19.87%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.90%) Finance
3 11 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.41%) Banking
5 8 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.49%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.21%) Automotive
7 5 (3.21%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.56%) Legal
9 3 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.28%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Aviation
11 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (19.87%) Test Engineer
2 30 (19.23%) Developer
3 24 (15.38%) Tester
4 21 (13.46%) Senior
5 17 (10.90%) Automation Tester
6 15 (9.62%) Senior Test Engineer
7 11 (7.05%) Lead
7 11 (7.05%) Software Engineer
8 9 (5.77%) Architect
9 8 (5.13%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (5.13%) QA Engineer
9 8 (5.13%) Test Automation Engineer
10 7 (4.49%) Analyst
11 6 (3.85%) Data Engineer
11 6 (3.85%) Test Analyst
12 5 (3.21%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (3.21%) Java Developer
12 5 (3.21%) QA Automation Engineer
12 5 (3.21%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 5 (3.21%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.10%) React
2 20 (12.82%) Node.js
3 12 (7.69%) Gherkin
3 12 (7.69%) Redux
4 8 (5.13%) AngularJS
4 8 (5.13%) Express.js
4 8 (5.13%) Kafka
5 7 (4.49%) .NET
5 7 (4.49%) CSS
5 7 (4.49%) HTML
5 7 (4.49%) JSON
6 6 (3.85%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (3.85%) Playwright
6 6 (3.85%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.21%) Spring
7 5 (3.21%) Web Services
7 5 (3.21%) XML
8 4 (2.56%) AWS CDK
8 4 (2.56%) FastAPI
8 4 (2.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.05%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.41%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.56%) CMDB
4 3 (1.92%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.92%) NHS
5 2 (1.28%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.64%) Mashup
6 1 (0.64%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.64%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.64%) PKI
6 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.64%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.64%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.85%) Mac OS X
1 6 (3.85%) Unix
2 3 (1.92%) Android
3 2 (1.28%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (50.00%) Agile
2 63 (40.38%) CI/CD
3 37 (23.72%) DevOps
4 27 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (16.67%) Scrum
5 26 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 24 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 24 (15.38%) TDD
7 20 (12.82%) BDD
7 20 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (12.82%) Test Strategy
8 19 (12.18%) Full Stack Development
8 19 (12.18%) Microservices
9 16 (10.26%) Manual Testing
9 16 (10.26%) Test Scripting
10 15 (9.62%) Front End Development
11 14 (8.97%) Software Testing
12 13 (8.33%) API Testing
12 13 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (8.33%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 57 (36.54%) Java
2 31 (19.87%) JavaScript
3 26 (16.67%) C#
4 25 (16.03%) Python
5 15 (9.62%) SQL
6 14 (8.97%) PowerShell
7 13 (8.33%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.13%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.21%) Bash
9 5 (3.21%) Scala
10 4 (2.56%) Groovy
10 4 (2.56%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.56%) PHP
11 2 (1.28%) C
11 2 (1.28%) C++
11 2 (1.28%) Delphi
11 2 (1.28%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.28%) VBScript
12 1 (0.64%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.64%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 17 (10.90%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.85%) Degree
4 3 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (32.05%) QA
2 16 (10.26%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.92%) SLA
4 3 (1.92%) WCAG
5 2 (1.28%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.64%) GRC
System Software
1 15 (9.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (14.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.85%) Terraform
3 5 (3.21%) Ansible
4 4 (2.56%) Puppet
5 3 (1.92%) Grafana
5 3 (1.92%) Kibana
5 3 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.64%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.64%) Nmap
Vendors
1 6 (3.85%) SAP
2 5 (3.21%) Informatica
2 5 (3.21%) Talend
3 4 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.92%) Siemens
5 2 (1.28%) Blue Prism
5 2 (1.28%) Brio
5 2 (1.28%) Google
5 2 (1.28%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.28%) Perfecto Mobile
6 1 (0.64%) Ariba
6 1 (0.64%) Avaloq
6 1 (0.64%) Databricks
6 1 (0.64%) Salesforce