Test Automation Architect Contracts

Automation Test Architect
UK

The median Automation Test Architect daily rate in the UK is £444, 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 543 621 819
Rank change year-on-year +78 +198 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Architect 6 6 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.013% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.014% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 16
10th Percentile £327 £428 £458
25th Percentile £367 £450 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% -6.98% +2.38%
75th Percentile £530 £550 £637
90th Percentile £576 £580 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate - £488 £525
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 33,956 44,250 77,454
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 93.82% 95.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,486 30,168 54,199
10th Percentile £300 £300 £316
25th Percentile £411 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,295 1,536 1,766
10th Percentile £15.08 £14.89 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.27 £19.06 £16.50
Median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year -15.73% +89.36% +31.43%

Test Automation Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Architect in the UK

Test Automation Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation Architect in the UK

Test Automation Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation Architect over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation Architect in the UK

Test Automation Architect
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 Test Automation Architect within the UK 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
England +76 6 £444 -8.97% 1
London +53 5 £444 -4.05%
Work from Home - 5 £444 -
UK excluding London +42 1 - - 1
South East - 1 - - 1

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

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

1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (83.33%) Test Strategy
2 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (83.33%) Test Scripting
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (83.33%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) TDD
3 4 (66.67%) NUnit
3 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
3 4 (66.67%) .NET
3 4 (66.67%) C#
3 4 (66.67%) OOP
3 4 (66.67%) Git
3 4 (66.67%) WPF
3 4 (66.67%) .NET Framework
3 4 (66.67%) Data Management
3 4 (66.67%) eggPlant
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
3 4 (66.67%) BDD
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) SpecFlow
3 4 (66.67%) WebDriver
3 4 (66.67%) Azure

Test Automation Architect 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 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Tricentis Tosca
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
2 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
3 4 (66.67%) eggPlant
3 4 (66.67%) Git
3 4 (66.67%) NUnit
3 4 (66.67%) SpecFlow
3 4 (66.67%) WebDriver
4 1 (16.67%) Bugzilla
4 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (16.67%) GitLab
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) JMeter
4 1 (16.67%) JUnit
4 1 (16.67%) TestNG
4 1 (16.67%) TestRail
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) .NET Framework
1 4 (66.67%) WPF
2 3 (50.00%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (83.33%) Test Scripting
2 5 (83.33%) Test Strategy
3 4 (66.67%) BDD
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (66.67%) Data Management
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) OOP
3 4 (66.67%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (16.67%) Kanban
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) Java
3 4 (66.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Keysight