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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 39 7
Rank change year-on-year +23 -32 +3
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 16 19 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basingstoke 11.27% 4.03% 17.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.12% 4.80% 19.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 25
10th Percentile £400 £545 £512
25th Percentile £463 £588 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £610
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -1.64% +12.18%
75th Percentile £625 £610 £675
90th Percentile - £633 £716
Hampshire median daily rate £513 £550 £581
% change year-on-year -6.82% -5.34% +16.20%

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 132 396 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 92.96% 83.90% 87.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 219 93
10th Percentile £455 £425 £263
25th Percentile £513 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £675
90th Percentile £650 £738 £711
Hampshire median daily rate £548 £590 £525
% change year-on-year -7.12% +12.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 13
10th Percentile - £18.50 -
25th Percentile - £35.00 £15.21
Median hourly rate £21.39 £47.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.97% +196.88% -27.27%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £19.25
90th Percentile - - £21.10
Hampshire median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.10% +4.27% +120.00%

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 5 June 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 2 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) JIRA
2 8 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (50.00%) SoapUI
3 2 (12.50%) MSI
3 2 (12.50%) Robot Framework
3 2 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Senior
1 6 (37.50%) Tester
2 5 (31.25%) Active Directory Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Senior Tester
3 2 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Test Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) SOAP
1 8 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) CentOS
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 8 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 8 (50.00%) V-Model
2 8 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 7 (43.75%) DevOps
4 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 5 (31.25%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (31.25%) Programme Delivery
5 5 (31.25%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (31.25%) Test Strategy
6 4 (25.00%) Change Management
7 3 (18.75%) Defect Management
7 3 (18.75%) Manual Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Batch Scripting
8 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (12.50%) Prototyping
8 2 (12.50%) Web Development
8 2 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) PHP
2 2 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (87.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Ansible
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) WMI
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Rancher
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) VMware
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow