Test Automation Contracts in Basingstoke

Automated Testing
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basingstoke with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -29 +2 +7
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 18 38 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basingstoke 4.18% 17.59% 12.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.81% 19.79% 14.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 33 26
10th Percentile £524 £512 £444
25th Percentile £588 £518 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £600 £548
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% +9.59% -2.67%
75th Percentile £610 £650 £624
90th Percentile - £703 £675
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £575 £495
% change year-on-year -4.35% +16.16% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £17.25
25th Percentile - - £23.88
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £75.00 £54.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +37.61% -0.91% +42.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Basingstoke

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Basingstoke with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 374 192 335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 86.77% 88.89% 88.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 113 187
10th Percentile £416 £330 £350
25th Percentile £463 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £580 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% +16.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £644
90th Percentile £738 £713 £688
Hampshire median daily rate £588 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +12.00% +5.00% +7.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 21
10th Percentile £27.50 £15.19 £15.50
25th Percentile £33.13 £15.28 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £16.42 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +189.28% -27.02% -19.64%
75th Percentile £48.75 £19.44 £33.75
90th Percentile - £23.73 £37.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.35 £52.50 £23.75
% change year-on-year +9.24% +121.05% -28.03%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Basingstoke

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Basingstoke.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Basingstoke

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Basingstoke

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Basingstoke

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Basingstoke

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Basingstoke.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Basingstoke

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basingstoke 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Robot Framework
1 8 (44.44%) Sonatype Nexus
1 8 (44.44%) TestRail
2 2 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 1 (5.56%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Analyst
1 8 (44.44%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
1 8 (44.44%) Test Analyst
2 7 (38.89%) Architect
2 7 (38.89%) Security Architect
3 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
1 8 (44.44%) Windows Server
1 8 (44.44%) Windows Server 2019
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (44.44%) Test Management
4 7 (38.89%) Application Security
4 7 (38.89%) Boundary Protection
4 7 (38.89%) Scrum
4 7 (38.89%) Security Architecture
4 7 (38.89%) Service Management
5 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (11.11%) ITIL
5 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 2 (11.11%) Release Management
5 2 (11.11%) Software Delivery
6 1 (5.56%) Agile Testing
6 1 (5.56%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (5.56%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) PowerShell
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) Go
Qualifications
1 18 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (44.44%) ISTQB
3 8 (44.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) RMADS
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (44.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Ansible
1 10 (55.56%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) VMware
2 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow