Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Avon

Automated Testing
South West > Avon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Avon requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Avon 11.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median daily rate £475 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -12.84% -0.91% +4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Avon

Test Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Avon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Avon 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.50 - -
Median hourly rate £14.00 - -
75th Percentile £14.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +8.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Avon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Avon.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Avon

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Avon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Avon citing Test Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Avon citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Avon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MSI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Packaging
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Compatibility Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Release Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Security Patching
1 1 (100.00%) Software Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Software Distribution
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft