Automation Tester Contracts in the UK excluding London

Automation Tester
UK > UK excluding London

The median Automation Tester daily rate in the UK excluding London is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 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
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 354 360 370
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 -5
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 37 84 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.37% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.39% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 58 111
10th Percentile £309 £363 £350
25th Percentile £363 £375 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £428 £438
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.17% +6.71%
75th Percentile £478 £488 £503
90th Percentile £505 £540 £538
UK median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £45.06
25th Percentile - - £48.90
Median hourly rate - - £56.58
75th Percentile - - £63.06
90th Percentile - - £66.17
UK median hourly rate - - £56.58

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,741 21,586 29,136
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.28% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,456 15,029 20,438
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £598 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,282 1,102 1,451
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.72 £18.04 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in the UK excluding London

Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Tester in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Automation Tester in the UK excluding London

Automation Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Tester in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Tester in the UK excluding London

Automation Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Automation Tester in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Automation Tester in the UK excluding London

Automation Tester
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Tester within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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 of England +22 17 £475 +11.76% 2
Yorkshire +11 12 £475 +8.57% 1
Midlands +21 8 £349 -10.45% 1
East Midlands +7 7 £380 -
Scotland +34 6 £375 -14.58% 1
North West +12 4 £450 +9.09% 1
South East -5 3 £450 +5.57% 3
Northern Ireland +5 2 - -
West Midlands +19 1 £203 -66.25% 1
North East +11 1 £310 -33.33%
Wales - 1 £509 -
Automation Tester
UK

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 22 May 2024, Automation Tester 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 UK excluding London region featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 37 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 21 (56.76%) Selenium
3 16 (43.24%) Agile
4 15 (40.54%) Java
5 11 (29.73%) Manual Testing
6 10 (27.03%) C#
7 9 (24.32%) JavaScript
7 9 (24.32%) Test Scripting
7 9 (24.32%) Azure
7 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
8 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (21.62%) Functional Testing
8 8 (21.62%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (18.92%) QA
9 7 (18.92%) DevOps
9 7 (18.92%) Test Strategy
9 7 (18.92%) Scenario Testing
9 7 (18.92%) End-to-End Testing
10 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (16.22%) Exploratory Testing
10 6 (16.22%) Data Quality
10 6 (16.22%) WebDriver
10 6 (16.22%) SQL
11 5 (13.51%) Python
11 5 (13.51%) SQL Server
11 5 (13.51%) Software Testing
11 5 (13.51%) Artificial Intelligence
11 5 (13.51%) Cucumber
11 5 (13.51%) GitHub
11 5 (13.51%) ServiceNow

Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (24.32%) Azure
2 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (13.51%) GitHub
4 4 (10.81%) AWS
5 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.70%) Figma
6 1 (2.70%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (56.76%) Selenium
2 6 (16.22%) WebDriver
3 5 (13.51%) Cucumber
3 5 (13.51%) Postman
4 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
4 4 (10.81%) JUnit
5 3 (8.11%) Cypress.io
5 3 (8.11%) NUnit
5 3 (8.11%) Visual Studio
6 2 (5.41%) Appium
6 2 (5.41%) Git
6 2 (5.41%) JMeter
6 2 (5.41%) Maven
6 2 (5.41%) REST Assured
6 2 (5.41%) SoapUI
7 1 (2.70%) GitLab
7 1 (2.70%) JIRA
7 1 (2.70%) SpecFlow
7 1 (2.70%) TestNG
7 1 (2.70%) Xcode
General
1 5 (13.51%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) REST
2 4 (10.81%) .NET
2 4 (10.81%) Gherkin
2 4 (10.81%) JSON
3 2 (5.41%) Playwright
3 2 (5.41%) Web Services
3 2 (5.41%) XML
4 1 (2.70%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.70%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.70%) HTML
4 1 (2.70%) Jest
4 1 (2.70%) Kafka
4 1 (2.70%) RESTful
4 1 (2.70%) Spring
4 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Android
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 16 (43.24%) Agile
3 11 (29.73%) Manual Testing
4 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
4 9 (24.32%) Test Scripting
5 8 (21.62%) Functional Testing
5 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (21.62%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (18.92%) DevOps
6 7 (18.92%) End-to-End Testing
6 7 (18.92%) Scenario Testing
6 7 (18.92%) Test Strategy
7 6 (16.22%) Exploratory Testing
8 5 (13.51%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (13.51%) Fintech
8 5 (13.51%) Software Testing
8 5 (13.51%) System Integration Testing
9 3 (8.11%) Non-Functional Testing
9 3 (8.11%) Regression Testing
9 3 (8.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (40.54%) Java
2 10 (27.03%) C#
3 9 (24.32%) JavaScript
4 6 (16.22%) SQL
5 5 (13.51%) Python
6 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.70%) Bash
7 1 (2.70%) C
7 1 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.92%) QA
2 6 (16.22%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.70%) Google
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft