Senior Automation Test Analyst Contracts

Senior Test Automation Analyst
UK

The median Senior Test Automation Analyst daily rate in the UK is £470 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 675 836
Rank change year-on-year +105 +161 -111
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Automation Test Analyst 5 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.012% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.013% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 2
10th Percentile £417 £413 £414
25th Percentile £443 £426 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £480 £438
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +9.71% +2.94%
75th Percentile £494 £536 £466
90th Percentile £528 £550 £471
UK excluding London median daily rate - £425 £425

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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
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% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior Automation Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Automation Test Analyst in the UK

Senior Automation Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Automation Test Analyst in the UK

Senior Automation Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Automation Test Analyst over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Automation Test Analyst in the UK

Senior Automation Test Analyst
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 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
London +93 4 £470 -2.08%
England +85 4 £470 -2.08%
Work from Home +113 3 £465 -3.13%
UK excluding London +37 1 - -
Scotland +36 1 - -

Senior Automation Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 featuring Senior Automation Test Analyst in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Back Office
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) API Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (40.00%) Postman
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) Selenium
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) JIRA
4 1 (20.00%) QA
4 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Subversion
4 1 (20.00%) C++
4 1 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) VBScript
4 1 (20.00%) VBA
4 1 (20.00%) .NET
4 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (20.00%) SAP
4 1 (20.00%) Client/Server

Senior Automation Test Analyst 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) IaaS
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
1 1 (20.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Postman
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
1 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (20.00%) Appium
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (20.00%) Rational Performance Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Subversion
2 1 (20.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (60.00%) Back Office
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) API Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (20.00%) ATDD
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Feature Driven Development
4 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Test Assurance
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) VBA
2 1 (20.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ISEB
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Ariba
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) SAP