Test Automation Manager Contracts with Work from Home Options

Automation Test Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation Test Manager daily rate in Work from Home is £425 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 336 468 610
Rank change year-on-year +132 +142 -110
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Manager 9 2 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.008% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.009% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £328 - -
25th Percentile £359 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £528
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.09%
75th Percentile £444 - £547
90th Percentile £448 - £613
UK median daily rate £425 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -21.84% +3.57% +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 Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Test Automation Manager trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Automation Manager
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 Manager.

Test Automation Manager daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

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

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

Test Automation Manager 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 Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Selenium
3 4 (44.44%) Software Testing
4 3 (33.33%) JIRA
4 3 (33.33%) SpecFlow
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Postman
5 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Ansible
5 2 (22.22%) Terraform
5 2 (22.22%) Virtual Environments
5 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
5 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
5 2 (22.22%) API Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
5 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
5 2 (22.22%) Fortinet
5 2 (22.22%) Firewall
5 2 (22.22%) Juniper
5 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
5 2 (22.22%) VMS
5 2 (22.22%) Unix
5 2 (22.22%) Windows
5 2 (22.22%) Windows 2000
5 2 (22.22%) Python
6 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse

Test Automation Manager 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Selenium
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) Postman
2 3 (33.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (11.11%) JUnit
3 1 (11.11%) Ranorex
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Retail
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
1 2 (22.22%) VMS
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows 2000
1 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Software Testing
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) API Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Virtual Environments
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Defect Management
5 1 (11.11%) ETL
5 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Load Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Resource Allocation
5 1 (11.11%) SDET
5 1 (11.11%) System Integration Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Test Management
5 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 2 (22.22%) Python
1 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Fortinet
1 2 (22.22%) Juniper
2 1 (11.11%) VMware