Test Automation Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Automated Testing
South East > Buckinghamshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 44 60
Rank change year-on-year +1 +16 -38
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 9 34 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 1.87% 3.95% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 4.19% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 28 13
10th Percentile £496 £345 £301
25th Percentile £547 £512 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% +4.65%
75th Percentile £634 £675 £484
90th Percentile £650 - £499
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £503
% change year-on-year -4.35% +14.43% +11.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 398 812 749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 82.74% 94.31% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 654 551
10th Percentile £253 £313 £220
25th Percentile £400 £413 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +1.90% +3.26%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £564
90th Percentile £681 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 2 37
10th Percentile £15.85 £10.18 £10.29
25th Percentile £18.25 £11.19 £10.77
Median hourly rate £25.00 £13.75 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +19.57% -11.47%
75th Percentile £29.69 £16.69 £16.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £17.93 £37.44
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
% change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.51%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Buckinghamshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Buckinghamshire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Buckinghamshire

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Buckinghamshire

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Milton Keynes +10 9 £600 - 4
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure API Management
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Functions
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) PaaS
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) Postman
1 2 (22.22%) REST Assured
1 2 (22.22%) WebDriver
2 1 (11.11%) Appium
2 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) JMeter
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
2 1 (11.11%) TestNG
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Developer
1 2 (22.22%) C# Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) QA Manager
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) OpenAPI
1 2 (22.22%) Swagger
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) Playwright
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) API Management
3 2 (22.22%) Creative Thinking
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (22.22%) Manual Testing
3 2 (22.22%) OO
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
3 2 (22.22%) SOLID
3 2 (22.22%) TDD
3 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
4 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
4 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Test Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
1 1 (11.11%) Puppet
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
1 1 (11.11%) vRealize
1 1 (11.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Dell
1 1 (11.11%) LogRhythm
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
1 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
1 1 (11.11%) VMware