Automation Tester Contracts in the UK excluding London

Automation Tester
UK > UK excluding London

The median Automation Tester daily rate in the UK excluding London is £406, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 358 398
Rank change year-on-year +6 +40 -15
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 46 81 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.35% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.38% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 54 94
10th Percentile £310 £363 £337
25th Percentile £363 £370 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £435 £444
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% -1.97% +10.94%
75th Percentile £514 £512 £502
90th Percentile £580 £575 £538
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - +73.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,528 21,567 29,335
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 94.42% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,672 14,888 20,612
10th Percentile £213 £231 £210
25th Percentile £365 £399 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £530
% change year-on-year -2.33% +1.42% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,125 1,402
10th Percentile £12.65 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £17.72 £15.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £74.86 £75.50 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £43.81 £25.50
% change year-on-year -14.39% +71.78% +18.60%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in the UK excluding London

Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Tester in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Automation Tester in the UK excluding London

Automation Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Tester in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Tester in the UK excluding London

Automation Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Automation Tester in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Automation Tester in the UK excluding London

Automation Tester
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Tester within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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 of England +21 21 £475 +3.83% 1
Yorkshire +12 18 £475 +5.56%
Scotland +37 9 £375 -12.38%
East Midlands +8 7 £380 -
Midlands +5 7 £380 -12.14%
South West +4 5 £570 +52.00% 1
North West +7 2 £400 -20.00% 1
South East -14 2 - - 2
North East +10 1 £310 -33.33%
Wales - 1 £509 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Automation Tester
UK

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 27 June 2024, Automation Tester 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 job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 46 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 26 (56.52%) Agile
3 23 (50.00%) Java
4 22 (47.83%) Selenium
5 18 (39.13%) CI/CD
6 12 (26.09%) Test Scripting
6 12 (26.09%) Manual Testing
6 12 (26.09%) C#
7 11 (23.91%) JavaScript
7 11 (23.91%) QA
7 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
8 10 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (19.57%) Scenario Testing
9 9 (19.57%) Azure
9 9 (19.57%) Functional Testing
10 8 (17.39%) REST
10 8 (17.39%) Security Cleared
10 8 (17.39%) DevOps
10 8 (17.39%) SQL
10 8 (17.39%) Regression Testing
11 7 (15.22%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (15.22%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (15.22%) Fintech
11 7 (15.22%) Cucumber
11 7 (15.22%) Test Strategy
11 7 (15.22%) Exploratory Testing
11 7 (15.22%) End-to-End Testing
12 6 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (13.04%) GitHub
12 6 (13.04%) WebDriver

Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.57%) Azure
2 6 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (13.04%) GitHub
3 5 (10.87%) AWS
4 2 (4.35%) GCP
4 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.17%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.17%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (47.83%) Selenium
2 7 (15.22%) Cucumber
3 6 (13.04%) GitLab
3 6 (13.04%) WebDriver
4 5 (10.87%) Git
4 5 (10.87%) Jenkins
4 5 (10.87%) Postman
5 4 (8.70%) JIRA
5 4 (8.70%) JUnit
6 3 (6.52%) Cypress.io
6 3 (6.52%) JMeter
7 2 (4.35%) Appium
7 2 (4.35%) NUnit
7 2 (4.35%) REST Assured
7 2 (4.35%) SoapUI
7 2 (4.35%) Visual Studio
8 1 (2.17%) Maven
8 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.17%) TestNG
8 1 (2.17%) Xcode
General
1 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.52%) Banking
5 3 (6.52%) Finance
6 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.39%) REST
2 5 (10.87%) JSON
3 4 (8.70%) Gherkin
4 3 (6.52%) Playwright
5 2 (4.35%) .NET
5 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.35%) Web Services
5 2 (4.35%) XML
6 1 (2.17%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.17%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.17%) HTML
6 1 (2.17%) Jest
6 1 (2.17%) Kafka
6 1 (2.17%) Node.js
6 1 (2.17%) PySpark
6 1 (2.17%) RESTful
6 1 (2.17%) SOAP
6 1 (2.17%) Spring
6 1 (2.17%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Android
2 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 26 (56.52%) Agile
3 18 (39.13%) CI/CD
4 12 (26.09%) Manual Testing
4 12 (26.09%) Test Scripting
5 10 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (19.57%) Functional Testing
6 9 (19.57%) Scenario Testing
7 8 (17.39%) DevOps
7 8 (17.39%) Regression Testing
8 7 (15.22%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (15.22%) End-to-End Testing
8 7 (15.22%) Exploratory Testing
8 7 (15.22%) Fintech
8 7 (15.22%) Test Strategy
8 7 (15.22%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (13.04%) Scrum
9 6 (13.04%) Test Planning
10 5 (10.87%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (10.87%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (50.00%) Java
2 12 (26.09%) C#
3 11 (23.91%) JavaScript
4 8 (17.39%) SQL
5 5 (10.87%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.70%) Python
7 2 (4.35%) Bash
7 2 (4.35%) C
8 1 (2.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.87%) DV Cleared
2 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.91%) QA
2 5 (10.87%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Ansible
1 4 (8.70%) Terraform
2 1 (2.17%) Grafana
2 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (10.87%) ServiceNow
2 2 (4.35%) Google
3 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.17%) VMware