Java Automation Tester Contracts

Java Automation Tester
UK

The median Java Automation Tester daily rate in the UK is £488 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 573 677 825
Rank change year-on-year +104 +148 -137
Contract jobs requiring a Java Automation Tester 5 5 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.009% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.009% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 23
10th Percentile - - £411
25th Percentile £413 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -13.46% +22.35%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £538
90th Percentile £660 £530 £572
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £425 £510
% change year-on-year +41.18% -16.67% +36.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,379 53,564 83,565
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 94.61% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,662 37,382 58,742
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,685 1,500 2,039
10th Percentile £12.81 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.03 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Java Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Automation Tester in the UK

Java Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java Automation Tester.

Daily rate trend for Java Automation Tester in the UK

Java Automation Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Automation Tester over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Automation Tester in the UK

Java Automation Tester
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Automation Tester within the UK 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
England +111 4 £456 +1.39%
London +94 3 £425 -19.05%
Work from Home - 3 £425 -
UK excluding London +51 1 £600 +41.18%
North of England +32 1 £600 +41.18%
Yorkshire +13 1 £600 +41.18%

Java Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 22 May 2024, Java 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 featuring Java Automation Tester in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) Gherkin
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) REST
3 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (20.00%) Postman
4 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) C#
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (20.00%) QA

Java Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (20.00%) CircleCI
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) JMeter
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Postman
3 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Gherkin
2 2 (40.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) API Testing
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) QA Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) SDET
4 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) System Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes