Test Automation Contracts in Bath

Automated Testing
Somerset > Bath

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bath 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 18 - 9
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bath 1.79% - 6.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% - 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - £65
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £198
Median % change year-on-year - - -56.11%
75th Percentile £463 - £376
90th Percentile - - £432
Somerset median daily rate £610 £600 £580
% change year-on-year +1.67% +3.54% +25.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bath

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 Bath.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52 48 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath 92.86% 85.71% 81.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 36 48
10th Percentile £265 £313 £161
25th Percentile £413 £405 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £431
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +10.14% -3.09%
75th Percentile £675 £525 £475
90th Percentile - £588 £538
Somerset median daily rate £575 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +15.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £12.50 -
Somerset median hourly rate £18.51 £25.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -25.96% -50.00% +0.50%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Bath

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Bath

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bath

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Bath

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bath 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA