Automation Tester Contracts in the North of England

Automation Tester
England > North of England

The median Automation Tester daily rate in the North of England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 174 207
Rank change year-on-year +9 +33 -41
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 20 28 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.41% 0.51% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.54% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 37
10th Percentile £400 £385 £361
25th Percentile £403 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £501 £513 £500
90th Percentile £550 £525 £550
England median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,496 5,185 6,867
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 95.28% 96.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,721 3,630 5,013
10th Percentile £263 £263 £206
25th Percentile £385 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £663 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 165 268
10th Percentile £11.12 £14.10 £11.28
25th Percentile £13.19 £17.50 £14.82
Median hourly rate £23.48 £27.20 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +36.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £47.63 £43.75 £33.96
90th Percentile £66.61 £57.06 £63.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in the North of England

Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Tester in the North of England

Automation Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Automation Tester in the North of England

Automation Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Automation Tester in the North of England

Automation Tester
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 Automation Tester 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
Yorkshire +11 17 £475 +5.56% 2
North West +10 2 £400 -13.51%
North East +9 1 £310 -33.33%
Automation Tester
England

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 12 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 North of England region featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 18 (90.00%) Agile
3 13 (65.00%) Java
4 10 (50.00%) Selenium
5 9 (45.00%) Manual Testing
5 9 (45.00%) JavaScript
6 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
7 7 (35.00%) Fintech
8 5 (25.00%) SDLC
8 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
8 5 (25.00%) REST
9 4 (20.00%) Gherkin
10 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
10 3 (15.00%) Test Scripting
10 3 (15.00%) AWS
10 3 (15.00%) GitHub
10 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
10 3 (15.00%) OOP
10 3 (15.00%) OO
10 3 (15.00%) Python
10 3 (15.00%) Regression Testing
10 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
10 3 (15.00%) JSON
10 3 (15.00%) Functional Testing
10 3 (15.00%) Scenario Testing
11 2 (10.00%) Task Automation
11 2 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
11 2 (10.00%) Exploratory Testing
11 2 (10.00%) API Testing

Automation Tester Skill Set
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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
1 3 (15.00%) GitHub
2 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 10 (50.00%) Selenium
2 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (10.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (10.00%) Git
3 2 (10.00%) JUnit
3 2 (10.00%) Postman
4 1 (5.00%) GitLab
4 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.00%) JMeter
4 1 (5.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (5.00%) XCUITest
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) REST
2 4 (20.00%) Gherkin
3 3 (15.00%) JSON
4 2 (10.00%) Playwright
5 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.00%) Jest
5 1 (5.00%) Kafka
5 1 (5.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Android
1 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 18 (90.00%) Agile
3 9 (45.00%) Manual Testing
4 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (35.00%) Fintech
6 5 (25.00%) SDLC
7 3 (15.00%) Functional Testing
7 3 (15.00%) OO
7 3 (15.00%) OOP
7 3 (15.00%) Regression Testing
7 3 (15.00%) Scenario Testing
7 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
7 3 (15.00%) Test Scripting
8 2 (10.00%) BDD
8 2 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
8 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
8 2 (10.00%) Task Automation
8 2 (10.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Java
2 9 (45.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (10.00%) Bash
4 2 (10.00%) C
4 2 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Google