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 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 7 13
Rank change year-on-year -33 +6 +13
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 20 33 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basingstoke 4.18% 17.37% 14.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.01% 19.76% 15.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 25 26
10th Percentile £545 £512 £469
25th Percentile £588 £525 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £610 £544
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +12.18% -3.33%
75th Percentile £610 £675 £609
90th Percentile £633 £716 £675
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £23.88
25th Percentile - - £30.69
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% -8.33% +44.58%

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 399 167 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 83.47% 87.89% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 90 186
10th Percentile £425 £259 £350
25th Percentile £513 £466 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £578 £506
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +14.07% +17.32%
75th Percentile £700 £672 £647
90th Percentile £738 £704 £688
Hampshire median daily rate £590 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +12.33% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 17
10th Percentile £18.50 - £14.65
25th Percentile £35.00 £15.21 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £16.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +196.88% -27.27% -6.38%
75th Percentile £48.75 £19.25 £33.75
90th Percentile - £21.10 £35.05
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.35 £56.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% +125.00% -23.66%

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 17 June 2024.

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 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Robot Framework
1 8 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 8 (40.00%) TestRail
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (10.00%) Electronics
1 2 (10.00%) Finance
1 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (10.00%) Marketing
1 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Architect
1 9 (45.00%) Security Architect
2 8 (40.00%) Analyst
2 8 (40.00%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
2 8 (40.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Windows
1 10 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 10 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (45.00%) Security Architecture
4 8 (40.00%) Test Management
5 7 (35.00%) Application Security
5 7 (35.00%) Boundary Protection
5 7 (35.00%) Scrum
5 7 (35.00%) Service Management
6 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (10.00%) DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (10.00%) ITIL
6 2 (10.00%) Programme Management
6 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (10.00%) Release Management
6 2 (10.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 10 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (55.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (40.00%) ISTQB
3 8 (40.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) RMADS
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Ansible
1 10 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (10.00%) SAP
2 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow