Test Automation Contracts in the North East

Automated Testing
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 12 31
Rank change year-on-year -16 +19 -10
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 10 41 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.10% 11.71% 4.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 13.02% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 35 18
10th Percentile £322 £355 £339
25th Percentile £363 £488 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £565 £540
Median % change year-on-year -27.43% +4.63% +22.73%
75th Percentile £438 £603 £638
90th Percentile £480 £848 £716
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

Test Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 262 315 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.11% 90.00% 87.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 239 335
10th Percentile £271 £248 £191
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £590 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £704 £659
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 6 15
10th Percentile £11.44 £18.38 £10.60
25th Percentile £12.13 £21.88 £12.91
Median hourly rate £19.50 £32.25 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.53% +95.45% +29.41%
75th Percentile £48.75 £33.75 £18.13
90th Percentile £68.75 £39.97 £33.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the North East

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in the North East

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the North East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in the North East

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in the North East

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Tyne and Wear -10 9 £410 -27.43% 8
Durham +3 1 - -
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Selenium
2 3 (30.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) JUnit
3 1 (10.00%) REST Assured
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Billing
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Angular Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Tester
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) HTML
1 3 (30.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (30.00%) Visualforce
2 2 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
3 1 (10.00%) Jest
3 1 (10.00%) Node.js
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 4 (40.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Regression Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Scenario Testing
3 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 2 (20.00%) Kanban
4 2 (20.00%) Load Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) SFIA
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (20.00%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) Apex Code
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) SOQL
3 2 (20.00%) Scala
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle