Test Automation Contracts in Basingstoke

Automated Testing
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basingstoke requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 34 8
Rank change year-on-year +17 -26 +6
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 10 20 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basingstoke 7.41% 4.67% 17.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.00% 5.33% 20.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 34
10th Percentile - £510 £512
25th Percentile £400 £571 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £595
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% -0.08% +8.76%
75th Percentile £625 £610 £647
90th Percentile - - £703
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +20.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Basingstoke

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 Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 125 375 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 92.59% 87.62% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 191 116
10th Percentile £466 £406 £330
25th Percentile £525 £425 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £666
90th Percentile £650 £738 £713
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £581 £525
% change year-on-year -5.25% +10.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 7
10th Percentile £22.00 £27.50 £15.38
25th Percentile £22.92 £33.13 £16.17
Median hourly rate £24.70 £47.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.01% +156.76% -17.78%
75th Percentile £26.72 £48.75 £20.50
90th Percentile £27.79 - £30.40
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.63 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +8.21% +113.80%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Basingstoke

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Basingstoke

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Basingstoke

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Basingstoke

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Basingstoke

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basingstoke 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) JIRA
2 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (50.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) SOAP
1 5 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 5 (50.00%) V-Model
2 5 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (30.00%) Change Management
4 3 (30.00%) Defect Management
4 3 (30.00%) Manual Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
6 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (80.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Rancher
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (10.00%) VMware