QA Automation Tester Contracts

Automation QA Tester
UK

The median Automation QA Tester daily rate in the UK is £421 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 669 823
Rank change year-on-year +108 +154 -137
Contract jobs requiring a QA Automation Tester 6 25 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.045% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.047% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 22 21
10th Percentile £264 £314 £313
25th Percentile £323 £363 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £428 £375
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% +14.13% -16.67%
75th Percentile £498 £501 £481
90th Percentile £552 £517 £525
UK excluding London median daily rate £380 £428 £363
% change year-on-year -11.21% +18.07% -15.25%

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 39,897 53,039 83,562
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 94.59% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,852 37,038 58,857
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,824 1,465 1,978
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.15 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%

QA Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Tester in the UK

QA Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for QA Automation Tester in the UK

QA Automation Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Automation Tester over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Automation Tester in the UK

QA Automation Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA Automation Tester.

Hourly rate trend for QA Automation Tester in the UK

QA Automation Tester
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation Tester within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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 +78 4 £421 -0.88% 1
Work from Home +109 3 £463 +8.44% 2
UK excluding London +24 3 £380 -11.21% 1
London +83 2 £413 +5.77%
Northern Ireland +3 2 - -
Midlands +21 1 £380 -7.88%
East Midlands +14 1 £380 +16.92%

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, QA 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 QA Automation Tester in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) QA
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Selenium
3 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Postman
3 3 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (33.33%) System Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (33.33%) NUnit
4 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
4 2 (33.33%) C#
4 2 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) .NET
4 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
4 2 (33.33%) Linux
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
4 2 (33.33%) Maven
4 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
4 2 (33.33%) API Testing
4 2 (33.33%) QA Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Fintech
5 1 (16.67%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365

QA 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (16.67%) BrowserStack
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (16.67%) Firebase
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) Postman
2 3 (50.00%) Selenium
3 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 2 (33.33%) Maven
3 2 (33.33%) NUnit
3 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
4 1 (16.67%) Appium
4 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (16.67%) GitLab
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) JMeter
4 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) WebdriverIO
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) API Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) QA Automation
3 2 (33.33%) System Testing
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (16.67%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Fintech
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Test Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow