Test Automation Contracts in Yorkshire

Automated Testing
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 34 51
Rank change year-on-year -4 +17 -28
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 80 107 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.62% 4.99% 4.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.49% 5.51% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 76 71
10th Percentile £399 £413 £313
25th Percentile £441 £484 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £480
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +14.58% +8.17%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £516
90th Percentile £600 £700 £575
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,456 1,942 2,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.06% 90.54% 90.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,278 1,738
10th Percentile £275 £267 £254
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £582 £619 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 62 81
10th Percentile £11.53 £9.80 £10.70
25th Percentile £12.15 £10.01 £12.44
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -42.54% -6.06%
75th Percentile £21.63 £20.99 £22.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £48.53 £27.25
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 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 13 June 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 13 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
West Yorkshire 0 58 £487 -11.50% 16
South Yorkshire -7 21 £460 -16.47% 5
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 2 (2.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.00%) GitHub
2 7 (8.75%) AWS
2 7 (8.75%) Azure
3 5 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.00%) GCP
5 2 (2.50%) Azure Functions
5 2 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (2.50%) Serverless
5 2 (2.50%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.50%) GIS
2 2 (2.50%) InterSystems Cache
2 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.50%) Redis
3 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.25%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 21 (26.25%) Selenium
2 12 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 12 (15.00%) JUnit
3 11 (13.75%) Cucumber
4 9 (11.25%) Git
5 8 (10.00%) JIRA
6 7 (8.75%) JMeter
7 5 (6.25%) Postman
8 4 (5.00%) Cypress.io
9 3 (3.75%) WebDriver
9 3 (3.75%) XCUITest
10 2 (2.50%) Gatling
10 2 (2.50%) Mockito
10 2 (2.50%) REST Assured
11 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
11 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (1.25%) GitLab
11 1 (1.25%) LoadRunner
11 1 (1.25%) TestNG
11 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (22.50%) Finance
1 18 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.75%) Banking
3 7 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.50%) Health Technology
5 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (25.00%) Tester
2 17 (21.25%) Automation Tester
3 15 (18.75%) Developer
4 10 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 9 (11.25%) Architect
6 6 (7.50%) Senior
7 5 (6.25%) Analyst
7 5 (6.25%) Test Analyst
8 4 (5.00%) Automation Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Test Manager
9 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (3.75%) Lead
9 3 (3.75%) QA Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) QA Test Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.75%) Gherkin
2 4 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (5.00%) CSS
2 4 (5.00%) FastAPI
2 4 (5.00%) HTML
2 4 (5.00%) Kafka
3 3 (3.75%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.75%) JSON
3 3 (3.75%) LDAP
3 3 (3.75%) Playwright
3 3 (3.75%) React
3 3 (3.75%) REST
3 3 (3.75%) Web Services
4 2 (2.50%) JAX-RS
4 2 (2.50%) Node.js
4 2 (2.50%) OpenLayers
4 2 (2.50%) PostGIS
4 2 (2.50%) SignalR
5 1 (1.25%) pytest
5 1 (1.25%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.50%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.00%) CMDB
4 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.75%) NHS
5 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.25%) Mashup
5 1 (1.25%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Mac OS X
1 4 (5.00%) Unix
2 2 (2.50%) Android
2 2 (2.50%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (63.75%) Agile
2 31 (38.75%) CI/CD
3 25 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (30.00%) DevOps
5 18 (22.50%) TDD
6 17 (21.25%) Test Scripting
7 16 (20.00%) Scrum
7 16 (20.00%) Test Strategy
8 14 (17.50%) Software Testing
9 12 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (15.00%) Kanban
9 12 (15.00%) User Stories
10 11 (13.75%) BDD
10 11 (13.75%) Manual Testing
10 11 (13.75%) Microservices
10 11 (13.75%) System Testing
10 11 (13.75%) Unit Testing
11 10 (12.50%) Analytics
11 10 (12.50%) Change Management
12 9 (11.25%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 36 (45.00%) Java
2 16 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 14 (17.50%) Python
4 10 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 9 (11.25%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.50%) Bash
6 6 (7.50%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.75%) C
7 3 (3.75%) Scala
8 2 (2.50%) C#
8 2 (2.50%) Groovy
9 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.75%) Degree
2 3 (3.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (32.50%) QA
2 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.25%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (11.25%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.25%) Ansible
3 4 (5.00%) Puppet
3 4 (5.00%) Terraform
4 3 (3.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (5.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (3.75%) Google
2 3 (3.75%) SAP
3 2 (2.50%) Brio
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.25%) Ariba
4 1 (1.25%) Databricks