Test Automation Contracts in Brighton

Automated Testing
East Sussex > Brighton

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Brighton 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 -11
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 3 12 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Brighton 5.88% 12.90% 8.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.52% 14.63% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 12
10th Percentile £266 £456 £476
25th Percentile £272 £594 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £745 £550
Median % change year-on-year -61.41% +35.45% +22.22%
75th Percentile £297 £824 £641
90th Percentile £299 £850 £650
East Sussex median daily rate £288 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -58.93% +16.67% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Brighton

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 Brighton with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46 82 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Brighton 90.20% 88.17% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 53 93
10th Percentile £304 £228 £232
25th Percentile £385 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £550 £700 £625
90th Percentile £650 £820 £674
East Sussex median daily rate £475 £563 £500
% change year-on-year -15.56% +12.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £52.38 -
25th Percentile £23.63 £54.06 -
Median hourly rate £25.25 £58.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.02% - -
75th Percentile £26.88 £64.06 -
90th Percentile - £66.13 -
East Sussex median hourly rate £25.25 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year -54.09% - -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Brighton

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Brighton

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Brighton

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Brighton

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Brighton

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Brighton

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Brighton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Appium
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) TestCafe
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Software Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) API Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Build Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Case Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft