Senior Automation Test Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Test Automation Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Test Automation Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 408 504
Rank change year-on-year +41 +96 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Automation Test Analyst 2 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.024% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.025% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £401 - £421
25th Percentile £403 £413 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -8.11% -2.63%
75th Percentile £428 £441 £469
90th Percentile £434 £446 -
UK median daily rate £400 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% -5.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 15,430 19,609 28,575
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 93.93% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,847 13,032 20,128
10th Percentile £220 £213 £215
25th Percentile £375 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 1,268 1,341
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.25 £12.48
25th Percentile £19.41 £18.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +89.36% +31.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Senior Automation Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Automation Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

Senior Automation Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Automation Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

Senior Automation Test Analyst
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 Senior Automation Test Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Scotland +24 2 £413 -2.94%
Senior Automation Test Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Senior Automation Test Analyst 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 Senior Automation Test Analyst in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) VBScript
1 2 (100.00%) VBA
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) V-Model
1 2 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Feature Driven Development
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) BDD

Senior Automation Test Analyst 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) ATDD
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Feature Driven Development
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) V-Model
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) VBA
1 2 (100.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification