Test Automation Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Automation Test Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation Test Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 425 527
Rank change year-on-year +114 +102 -106
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 34 45 89
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.18% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.19% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 36 71
10th Percentile £357 £413 £363
25th Percentile £376 £438 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £575
90th Percentile £576 £616 £625
UK median daily rate £463 £525 £512
% change year-on-year -11.90% +2.64% +20.00%

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 13,707 23,282 42,199
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.29% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,257 16,477 30,548
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 537 589
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.17 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.35
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +50.00% +48.94%
75th Percentile £64.53 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.17
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

Test Automation Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Test Automation Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Automation Engineer
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 Engineer.

Test Automation Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Test Automation Engineer over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Test Automation Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Test Automation Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 16 (47.06%) Java
3 15 (44.12%) Selenium
3 15 (44.12%) DevOps
4 13 (38.24%) Agile
4 13 (38.24%) SQL
4 13 (38.24%) CI/CD
5 12 (35.29%) Test Scripting
6 11 (32.35%) Azure
6 11 (32.35%) Python
6 11 (32.35%) Software Testing
7 9 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (23.53%) Playwright
8 8 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (23.53%) C#
8 8 (23.53%) BDD
8 8 (23.53%) Jenkins
9 7 (20.59%) SDLC
9 7 (20.59%) Git
9 7 (20.59%) .NET
9 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
9 7 (20.59%) Finance
10 6 (17.65%) Accessibility
10 6 (17.65%) Regression Testing
10 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
10 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
10 6 (17.65%) Cypress.io
10 6 (17.65%) Non-Functional Testing
11 5 (14.71%) Docker
11 5 (14.71%) System Integration Testing

Test Automation Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.94%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (14.71%) AWS
4 2 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.94%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.94%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) MQTT
1 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (44.12%) Selenium
2 8 (23.53%) Jenkins
3 7 (20.59%) Git
4 6 (17.65%) Cypress.io
5 5 (14.71%) Visual Studio
6 4 (11.76%) Cucumber
6 4 (11.76%) NUnit
6 4 (11.76%) Postman
7 3 (8.82%) JIRA
7 3 (8.82%) JMeter
8 2 (5.88%) Appium
8 2 (5.88%) HP UFT
8 2 (5.88%) JUnit
8 2 (5.88%) REST Assured
8 2 (5.88%) TestNG
9 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (2.94%) GitLab
9 1 (2.94%) IntelliJ
9 1 (2.94%) Newman
9 1 (2.94%) SpecFlow
General
1 7 (20.59%) Finance
2 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.76%) Banking
3 4 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (11.76%) Telecoms
4 3 (8.82%) Electronics
4 3 (8.82%) Manufacturing
4 3 (8.82%) Marketing
4 3 (8.82%) Retail
5 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Aviation
6 1 (2.94%) Front Office
6 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) Playwright
2 7 (20.59%) .NET
3 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
3 3 (8.82%) GraphQL
3 3 (8.82%) REST
3 3 (8.82%) SOAP
4 2 (5.88%) Web Services
4 2 (5.88%) WinForms
4 2 (5.88%) WPF
5 1 (2.94%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.94%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.94%) Derivative
2 1 (2.94%) Fat Client
2 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.94%) Machine to Machine
2 1 (2.94%) Market Risk
2 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (2.94%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Windows
2 1 (2.94%) Android
2 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.94%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 15 (44.12%) DevOps
3 13 (38.24%) Agile
3 13 (38.24%) CI/CD
4 12 (35.29%) Test Scripting
5 11 (32.35%) Software Testing
6 8 (23.53%) BDD
6 8 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (20.59%) SDLC
8 6 (17.65%) Non-Functional Testing
8 6 (17.65%) Regression Testing
9 5 (14.71%) End-to-End Testing
9 5 (14.71%) Scrum
9 5 (14.71%) System Integration Testing
9 5 (14.71%) TDD
10 4 (11.76%) API Testing
10 4 (11.76%) Manual Testing
10 4 (11.76%) Scenario Testing
10 4 (11.76%) SDET
10 4 (11.76%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 16 (47.06%) Java
2 13 (38.24%) SQL
3 11 (32.35%) Python
4 8 (23.53%) C#
5 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
6 4 (11.76%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.88%) VB
7 2 (5.88%) VB6
8 1 (2.94%) Bash
8 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) Accessibility
2 5 (14.71%) QA
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) iptables
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) SAP
2 2 (5.88%) Infragistics
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft