Senior Test Automation Engineer Contracts in Bristol

Senior Automation Test Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Senior Automation Test Engineer daily rate in Bristol is £590 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 91 -
Rank change year-on-year +12 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Automation Engineer 3 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.29% 0.32% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.35% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £582 - -
25th Percentile £585 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -
75th Percentile - £584 -
90th Percentile - £599 -
South West median daily rate £590 £550 -
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 997 1,139 1,361
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.04% 90.25% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 805 925
10th Percentile £236 £300 £272
25th Percentile £363 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £575
90th Percentile £688 £716 £650
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 146 113
10th Percentile £36.25 £32.76 -
25th Percentile £45.00 £57.25 £15.90
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +55.95% -1.18%
75th Percentile £74.27 £75.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £86.13 £65.60
South West median hourly rate £53.00 £65.00 £47.00
% change year-on-year -18.46% +38.30% +10.59%

Senior Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings that featured Senior Test Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Automation Engineer in Bristol

Senior Test Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Automation Engineer in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Automation Engineer in Bristol

Senior Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Senior Test Automation Engineer 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 Bristol region featuring Senior Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) NUnit
1 3 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 3 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
1 3 (100.00%) Playwright
1 3 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD

Senior Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) NUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
General
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) SAP