Test Automation Consultant Contracts with Work from Home Options

Automation Test Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation Test Consultant daily rate in Work from Home is £427 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 345 458 618
Rank change year-on-year +113 +160 -126
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Consultant 3 3 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.012% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.013% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £383 - £394
25th Percentile £395 - £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £450 £469
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% -4.00% +50.00%
75th Percentile £447 - £519
90th Percentile £451 - £553
UK median daily rate £427 £475 £438
% change year-on-year -10.11% +8.57% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,691 22,958 42,210
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.26% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,251 16,282 30,640
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £444 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +2.67% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 531 565
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.84 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +43.84% +57.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.72 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Test Automation Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Test Automation Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Automation Consultant trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Automation Consultant
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Automation Consultant.

Test Automation Consultant daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Automation Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Test Automation Consultant 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Test Automation Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) SoapUI
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) eggPlant
2 2 (66.67%) Appium
2 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
2 2 (66.67%) TestNG
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) JUnit
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) SOAtest
2 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) HP ALM
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) XML

Test Automation Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) SoapUI
2 2 (66.67%) Appium
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) eggPlant
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) JUnit
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
2 2 (66.67%) SOAtest
2 2 (66.67%) TestNG
2 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
3 1 (33.33%) JMeter
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) ATDD
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle