Test Automation Contracts in Somerset

Automated Testing
South West > Somerset

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 6 14
Rank change year-on-year -22 +8 -7
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 1 30 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 0.50% 14.85% 11.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 16.57% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 22 14
10th Percentile - £313 £407
25th Percentile - £433 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £580 £463
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% +25.30% -2.12%
75th Percentile - £655 £527
90th Percentile - £765 £575
South West median daily rate £556 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +1.14% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £43.36
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £49.75
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £75.25 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.91% +51.26% +3.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 150 181 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 75.38% 89.60% 86.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 135 122
10th Percentile £159 £217 £286
25th Percentile £396 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £536
90th Percentile £613 £732 £614
South West median daily rate £525 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 16 9
10th Percentile £12.50 £17.38 £36.19
25th Percentile £22.63 £32.11 £46.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +0.50% +20.13%
75th Percentile £40.00 £61.09 £50.00
90th Percentile £48.00 £76.84 £57.75
South West median hourly rate £47.92 £61.50 £48.48
% change year-on-year -22.09% +26.86% +7.73%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Somerset

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Somerset

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Somerset

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Taunton -5 1 £600 -4.00% 2
Test Automation
South West

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript