Test Automation Contracts in the North of England

Automated Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 40 49 46
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 -10
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 189 217 334
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.90% 3.99% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.66% 4.43% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 163 252
10th Percentile £400 £369 £350
25th Percentile £425 £436 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £606
90th Percentile £600 £700 £656
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £65.25 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +0.77% +147.81%
75th Percentile £72.19 £65.75 -
90th Percentile £74.50 - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £70.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.89% +17.50% +31.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,055 4,902 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 90.08% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,372 4,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 209 251
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.75 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.39 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the North of England

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in the North of England

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in the North of England

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in the North of England

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Automation in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Automation in the North of England

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +39 99 £509 +1.75% 71
Yorkshire -4 80 £475 -13.64% 23
North East -16 10 £410 -27.43% 8
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 13 (6.88%) Confluence
2 5 (2.65%) Apache
2 5 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.65%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.53%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.53%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Simulink
1 4 (2.12%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (1.59%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 50 (26.46%) AWS
2 25 (13.23%) Azure
3 13 (6.88%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (6.88%) Amazon S3
3 13 (6.88%) Amazon SQS
4 11 (5.82%) GitHub
5 9 (4.76%) Serverless
6 8 (4.23%) Amazon ECR
6 8 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (4.23%) Route 53
6 8 (4.23%) SaaS
6 8 (4.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.65%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (2.65%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.12%) GCP
10 3 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.59%) BrowserStack
11 2 (1.06%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.65%) FTP
2 4 (2.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.82%) MongoDB
2 8 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (3.17%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.65%) Big Data
5 2 (1.06%) GIS
5 2 (1.06%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (1.06%) MySQL
5 2 (1.06%) Redis
6 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.53%) Power BI
6 1 (0.53%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (20.11%) Selenium
2 26 (13.76%) JIRA
3 24 (12.70%) Git
4 19 (10.05%) Cucumber
5 17 (8.99%) Jenkins
6 16 (8.47%) GitLab
7 13 (6.88%) JUnit
8 11 (5.82%) Bitbucket
9 10 (5.29%) Cypress.io
9 10 (5.29%) JMeter
9 10 (5.29%) Postman
10 8 (4.23%) webpack
11 6 (3.17%) WebDriver
12 5 (2.65%) Gatling
13 4 (2.12%) TeamCity
14 3 (1.59%) Mocha
14 3 (1.59%) Mockito
14 3 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
14 3 (1.59%) REST Assured
14 3 (1.59%) TestCafe
General
1 36 (19.05%) Finance
1 36 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (8.47%) Banking
4 12 (6.35%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.65%) Automotive
6 5 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.12%) Legal
7 4 (2.12%) Publishing
8 3 (1.59%) Billing
8 3 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.06%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Aviation
10 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (15.87%) Developer
1 30 (15.87%) Test Engineer
2 28 (14.81%) Tester
3 20 (10.58%) Automation Tester
3 20 (10.58%) Senior
4 13 (6.88%) Senior Test Engineer
5 12 (6.35%) Architect
6 11 (5.82%) Software Engineer
7 10 (5.29%) Consultant
7 10 (5.29%) Lead
8 9 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
8 9 (4.76%) QA Engineer
8 9 (4.76%) Test Automation Engineer
9 8 (4.23%) Analyst
10 7 (3.70%) Test Analyst
10 7 (3.70%) Test Manager
11 6 (3.17%) Data Engineer
11 6 (3.17%) Java Developer
11 6 (3.17%) QA Automation Engineer
12 5 (2.65%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.64%) Node.js
1 22 (11.64%) React
2 18 (9.52%) Gherkin
3 12 (6.35%) Redux
4 9 (4.76%) Kafka
5 8 (4.23%) AngularJS
5 8 (4.23%) Express.js
5 8 (4.23%) HTML
5 8 (4.23%) JSON
6 7 (3.70%) .NET
6 7 (3.70%) ActiveMQ
6 7 (3.70%) CSS
6 7 (3.70%) Playwright
7 6 (3.17%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.65%) REST
8 5 (2.65%) Spring
8 5 (2.65%) Web Services
8 5 (2.65%) XML
9 4 (2.12%) FastAPI
9 4 (2.12%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.29%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.17%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (3.17%) Security Posture
4 5 (2.65%) Cyberattack
4 5 (2.65%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.12%) CMDB
6 3 (1.59%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.59%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.59%) NHS
7 2 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.53%) Mashup
8 1 (0.53%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.53%) PKI
8 1 (0.53%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.53%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.94%) Unix
2 9 (4.76%) Linux
2 9 (4.76%) Windows
3 7 (3.70%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.59%) Android
5 2 (1.06%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (48.68%) Agile
2 72 (38.10%) CI/CD
3 40 (21.16%) DevOps
4 39 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (15.87%) Scrum
6 28 (14.81%) Computer Science
6 28 (14.81%) TDD
7 27 (14.29%) Change Management
7 27 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 25 (13.23%) Test Scripting
9 24 (12.70%) Containerisation
9 24 (12.70%) Microservices
10 22 (11.64%) Test Strategy
11 21 (11.11%) BDD
11 21 (11.11%) Software Testing
12 20 (10.58%) Full Stack Development
13 18 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (9.52%) Observability
14 17 (8.99%) Kanban
14 17 (8.99%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 71 (37.57%) Java
2 32 (16.93%) JavaScript
3 27 (14.29%) Python
4 23 (12.17%) C#
5 17 (8.99%) SQL
6 15 (7.94%) PowerShell
7 14 (7.41%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.23%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.70%) Bash
9 7 (3.70%) Scala
10 4 (2.12%) Groovy
10 4 (2.12%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.12%) PHP
11 3 (1.59%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.59%) C
11 3 (1.59%) C++
11 3 (1.59%) SOQL
12 2 (1.06%) Delphi
12 2 (1.06%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.06%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (11.64%) Degree
2 20 (10.58%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.99%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.06%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (28.04%) QA
2 11 (5.82%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.65%) NIST
4 4 (2.12%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.59%) SLA
6 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.06%) WCAG
7 1 (0.53%) GRC
System Software
1 25 (13.23%) Docker
2 3 (1.59%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 25 (13.23%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.70%) Terraform
3 6 (3.17%) Ansible
4 4 (2.12%) Puppet
5 3 (1.59%) Grafana
5 3 (1.59%) Kibana
5 3 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.53%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.53%) Istio
6 1 (0.53%) Nmap
6 1 (0.53%) Podman
Vendors
1 9 (4.76%) ServiceNow
1 9 (4.76%) Tanium
2 8 (4.23%) Atlassian
2 8 (4.23%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.23%) Salesforce
3 6 (3.17%) SAP
4 5 (2.65%) Informatica
4 5 (2.65%) Talend
5 3 (1.59%) Google
5 3 (1.59%) Siemens
5 3 (1.59%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.06%) Blue Prism
6 2 (1.06%) Brio
6 2 (1.06%) Perfecto Mobile
7 1 (0.53%) Ariba
7 1 (0.53%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.53%) Databricks
7 1 (0.53%) Intel
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle