Test Automation Contracts in Wiltshire

Automated Testing
South West > Wiltshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 60 30
Rank change year-on-year -27 -30 +2
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 7 33 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.74% 2.99% 5.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 3.24% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 25 37
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £409 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +3.09% +2.11%
75th Percentile £546 £575 £504
90th Percentile £549 £643 £531
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 778 1,017 828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 82.42% 92.12% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 855 593
10th Percentile £315 £400 £350
25th Percentile £463 £467 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £613
90th Percentile £725 £725 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 24
10th Percentile £12.00 £60.45 £15.26
25th Percentile - £62.75 £29.75
Median hourly rate £14.54 £68.15 £59.25
Median % change year-on-year -78.66% +15.02% +18.50%
75th Percentile £30.25 £77.50 £69.05
90th Percentile £47.75 £85.25 £73.50
South West median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Wiltshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Wiltshire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Wiltshire

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Wiltshire

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Swindon +6 4 £400 -23.81% 1
Malmesbury -1 1 £550 +15.79%
Corsham -16 1 £533 -3.18%
Test Automation
South West

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Hive
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
1 1 (14.29%) Metadata
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) LabVIEW
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 2 (28.57%) Aerospace
1 2 (28.57%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Test Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Regression Testing
1 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
2 2 (28.57%) System Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (14.29%) Data Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) C++
3 2 (28.57%) C
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) JTAG
2 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cloudera
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks