Test Automation Contracts in Yorkshire

Automated Testing
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 35 49
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 -22
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 67 110 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.02% 4.95% 4.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 5.44% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 78 76
10th Percentile £390 £413 £351
25th Percentile £413 £475 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £480
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +14.58% +9.71%
75th Percentile £517 £650 £523
90th Percentile £575 £700 £575
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £77.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -22.08% +28.33% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,435 2,021 2,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.08% 91.00% 90.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 1,338 1,770
10th Percentile £275 £275 £260
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +8.25% +10.86%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £556
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 63 81
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.63
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -40.94% -9.74%
75th Percentile £22.00 £20.97 £22.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £55.23 £27.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Yorkshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Yorkshire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Yorkshire

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Yorkshire

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
West Yorkshire -2 48 £475 -13.64% 19
South Yorkshire -1 18 £460 -20.00% 4
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (1.49%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.45%) Azure
2 6 (8.96%) AWS
2 6 (8.96%) GitHub
3 5 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.48%) GCP
5 2 (2.99%) Azure Functions
5 2 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (2.99%) Serverless
5 2 (2.99%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.97%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.99%) GIS
2 2 (2.99%) InterSystems Cache
2 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.99%) Redis
3 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.49%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 19 (28.36%) Selenium
2 11 (16.42%) Jenkins
3 8 (11.94%) Git
3 8 (11.94%) JMeter
4 7 (10.45%) Cucumber
4 7 (10.45%) JIRA
5 6 (8.96%) JUnit
6 5 (7.46%) Postman
7 3 (4.48%) Cypress.io
7 3 (4.48%) WebDriver
7 3 (4.48%) XCUITest
8 2 (2.99%) Gatling
8 2 (2.99%) Mockito
8 2 (2.99%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (1.49%) GitLab
9 1 (1.49%) LoadRunner
9 1 (1.49%) TestNG
9 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (23.88%) Finance
1 16 (23.88%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.94%) Banking
3 6 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.99%) Health Technology
5 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (22.39%) Developer
2 14 (20.90%) Tester
3 11 (16.42%) Automation Tester
4 9 (13.43%) Test Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Senior
6 6 (8.96%) Architect
7 5 (7.46%) Analyst
7 5 (7.46%) Test Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Automation Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Senior Test Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Test Manager
9 3 (4.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (4.48%) Lead
9 3 (4.48%) QA Test Analyst
9 3 (4.48%) ServiceNow Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.43%) Gherkin
2 4 (5.97%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (5.97%) CSS
2 4 (5.97%) FastAPI
2 4 (5.97%) HTML
2 4 (5.97%) Kafka
3 3 (4.48%) AngularJS
3 3 (4.48%) LDAP
3 3 (4.48%) React
3 3 (4.48%) Web Services
4 2 (2.99%) JAX-RS
4 2 (2.99%) JSON
4 2 (2.99%) Node.js
4 2 (2.99%) OpenLayers
4 2 (2.99%) Playwright
4 2 (2.99%) PostGIS
4 2 (2.99%) REST
4 2 (2.99%) SignalR
5 1 (1.49%) PySpark
5 1 (1.49%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.46%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.97%) CMDB
4 3 (4.48%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.48%) NHS
5 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.49%) Mashup
5 1 (1.49%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.97%) Mac OS X
1 4 (5.97%) Unix
2 2 (2.99%) Android
2 2 (2.99%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.99%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (59.70%) Agile
2 25 (37.31%) CI/CD
3 22 (32.84%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (31.34%) DevOps
5 15 (22.39%) TDD
5 15 (22.39%) Test Strategy
6 13 (19.40%) Scrum
7 12 (17.91%) Test Scripting
7 12 (17.91%) User Stories
8 10 (14.93%) BDD
8 10 (14.93%) Change Management
9 9 (13.43%) Analytics
9 9 (13.43%) Containerisation
9 9 (13.43%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (13.43%) Kanban
9 9 (13.43%) Manual Testing
10 8 (11.94%) API Testing
10 8 (11.94%) Microservices
10 8 (11.94%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 27 (40.30%) Java
2 14 (20.90%) JavaScript
3 13 (19.40%) Python
4 10 (14.93%) PowerShell
5 7 (10.45%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.96%) Shell Script
7 5 (7.46%) Bash
8 3 (4.48%) Scala
9 2 (2.99%) C
9 2 (2.99%) C#
9 2 (2.99%) Groovy
10 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (7.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.46%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.48%) Degree
2 3 (4.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (35.82%) QA
2 4 (5.97%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.49%) GRC
3 1 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (14.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.46%) Ansible
3 4 (5.97%) Puppet
3 4 (5.97%) Terraform
4 3 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (5.97%) ServiceNow
2 3 (4.48%) SAP
3 2 (2.99%) Brio
3 2 (2.99%) Google
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.49%) Ariba
4 1 (1.49%) Databricks