Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Bradford

Automated Testing
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bradford requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 11 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bradford 14.29% 14.29% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.42% 18.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 0
10th Percentile £420 £384 -
25th Percentile £434 £404 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £408 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.75% - -
75th Percentile £512 £431 -
90th Percentile £556 £438 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bradford

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 Bradford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67 33 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford 87.01% 78.57% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 20 62
10th Percentile £274 £361 £328
25th Percentile £419 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £412 £482
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% -14.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £597 £438 £584
90th Percentile £676 £622 £648
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £14.72 - £27.10
25th Percentile £18.87 - £27.59
Median hourly rate £21.30 - £28.42
Median % change year-on-year - - +63.78%
75th Percentile £22.14 - £29.25
90th Percentile £25.18 - £29.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £30.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -26.20% +57.89% -11.63%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Bradford

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Bradford

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Bradford

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

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

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Bradford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Bradford over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Bradford

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) SD-WAN
2 4 (36.36%) Ethernet
3 3 (27.27%) Wireshark
4 2 (18.18%) WAN
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (9.09%) Firewall
5 1 (9.09%) FTP
5 1 (9.09%) IOS XR
5 1 (9.09%) SNMP
5 1 (9.09%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (9.09%) SSH
5 1 (9.09%) TACACS
General
1 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Scrum Master
2 5 (45.45%) Test Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Network Engineer
4 3 (27.27%) Senior
4 3 (27.27%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Product Ownership
2 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Backlog Refinement
2 6 (54.55%) Burndown Charts
2 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (54.55%) Kanban
2 6 (54.55%) Planning Poker
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (54.55%) Scrum
2 6 (54.55%) Service Delivery
2 6 (54.55%) Sprint Planning
2 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (54.55%) User Stories
3 4 (36.36%) Test Strategy
4 3 (27.27%) CRM
4 3 (27.27%) Customer Experience
4 3 (27.27%) ERP
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
4 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Bash
1 4 (36.36%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) CCNA
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Cisco
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Juniper
2 3 (27.27%) Meraki
2 3 (27.27%) Nokia
3 1 (9.09%) Ciena