Test Automation Contracts in Swindon

Automated Testing
Wiltshire > Swindon

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Swindon 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 25 15
Rank change year-on-year +9 -10 +1
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 4 10 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swindon 3.23% 4.59% 7.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 5.35% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 19
10th Percentile - £482 £463
25th Percentile £375 £504 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £425 £596 £507
90th Percentile - £683 £544
Wiltshire median daily rate £463 £500 £483
% change year-on-year -7.50% +3.63% -0.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 95 187 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 76.61% 85.78% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 146 204
10th Percentile £154 £319 £307
25th Percentile £304 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +9.29%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £609
90th Percentile £633 £694 £661
Wiltshire median daily rate £538 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -6.43% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.18
25th Percentile £12.00 - £15.44
Median hourly rate £16.50 - £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.00%
75th Percentile £30.25 - £26.19
90th Percentile - - £30.73
Wiltshire median hourly rate £15.52 £65.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -76.31% +19.09% +15.79%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Swindon

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Swindon

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Swindon

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swindon 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 (25.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 3 (75.00%) Aerospace
1 3 (75.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) System Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL