Test Automation Contracts in Exeter

Automated Testing
Devon > Exeter

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Exeter 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -15
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 2 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Exeter 1.39% 6.42% 4.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 6.86% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 6
10th Percentile - £413 £580
25th Percentile - - £590
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% +12.73%
75th Percentile - - £674
90th Percentile - £719 £675
Devon median daily rate £600 £600 £590
% change year-on-year - +1.69% +4.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
Devon median hourly rate - £45.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Exeter

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 Exeter with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 123 102 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Exeter 85.42% 93.58% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 82 119
10th Percentile £156 £316 £167
25th Percentile £334 £428 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £408
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +34.80% -25.82%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £596
90th Percentile £600 £675 £668
Devon median daily rate £425 £465 £408
% change year-on-year -8.60% +13.97% -22.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 3
10th Percentile £10.76 £26.10 £20.36
25th Percentile £13.86 £38.25 £20.41
Median hourly rate £26.40 £47.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.84% +123.81% -44.37%
75th Percentile £30.25 £51.38 £32.25
90th Percentile - £52.05 £38.70
Devon median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -45.45% +161.90% -15.15%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Exeter

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Exeter

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Exeter

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Exeter 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Full Stack Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) CSS3
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) Jest
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) React Native
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Loose Coupling
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform