Test Automation Contracts in Bristol

Automated Testing
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 42 51
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 +12
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 21 36 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 3.24% 3.24% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 4.00% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 32
10th Percentile £317 £431 £380
25th Percentile £333 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -27.80% -4.65% -6.11%
75th Percentile £386 £588 £650
90th Percentile £447 £590 £735
South West median daily rate £431 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -20.51% +3.33% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 0
10th Percentile £43.26 - -
25th Percentile £46.88 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £52.92 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.78% - -
75th Percentile £58.96 £85.00 -
90th Percentile £62.58 - -
South West median hourly rate £52.92 £55.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -3.78% -29.49% +40.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 593 899 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.37% 80.92% 87.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 493 700
10th Percentile £235 £260 £313
25th Percentile £361 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -4.31% +4.50%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £638
90th Percentile £644 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 211 160
10th Percentile £18.13 £40.00 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £50.00 £17.70
Median hourly rate £40.84 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.66% +12.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.30
90th Percentile £74.50 £77.50 £83.44
South West median hourly rate £28.10 £55.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -48.92% -10.57% +26.16%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Bristol

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Bristol

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Bristol over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Bristol

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Bristol

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Automation in Bristol over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Automation in Bristol

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (9.52%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) CATIA
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) Azure
2 11 (52.38%) AWS
3 9 (42.86%) GCP
4 4 (19.05%) Power Automate
5 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
5 2 (9.52%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.76%) npm
6 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) HTTP
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle ODI
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.52%) Power BI
2 2 (9.52%) Star Schema
3 1 (4.76%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Git
1 5 (23.81%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) DBeaver
3 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.76%) webpack
General
1 12 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 10 (47.62%) Finance
3 8 (38.10%) Manufacturing
4 7 (33.33%) Electronics
4 7 (33.33%) Marketing
4 7 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 7 (33.33%) Telecoms
5 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (9.52%) Banking
7 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
7 1 (4.76%) Aviation
7 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (4.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Developer
2 8 (38.10%) Applications Support
3 7 (33.33%) Applications Developer
3 7 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) Applications Support Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) Support Engineer
4 6 (28.57%) Azure Developer
4 6 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (28.57%) C# Application Developer
4 6 (28.57%) C# Developer
4 6 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Software Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Lead
6 2 (9.52%) Quality Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) QA Manual Tester
7 1 (4.76%) Senior
7 1 (4.76%) UAT Lead
7 1 (4.76%) UAT Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) CSS
1 9 (42.86%) HTML
2 8 (38.10%) .NET
3 5 (23.81%) React
4 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
4 4 (19.05%) JMS
4 4 (19.05%) SOAP
4 4 (19.05%) XML
4 4 (19.05%) XSD
5 2 (9.52%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (4.76%) Jest
6 1 (4.76%) Middleware
6 1 (4.76%) PySpark
6 1 (4.76%) Qt
6 1 (4.76%) RESTful
6 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
6 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.52%) Replication
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Android
1 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) CI/CD
1 10 (47.62%) Software Engineering
2 9 (42.86%) Agile
2 9 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (42.86%) Software Delivery
2 9 (42.86%) TDD
2 9 (42.86%) User Experience
3 8 (38.10%) Computer Science
3 8 (38.10%) Continuous Delivery
3 8 (38.10%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (38.10%) Service Delivery
3 8 (38.10%) Service Management
3 8 (38.10%) Web Development
4 7 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
4 7 (33.33%) Programme Management
5 6 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (19.05%) OO
6 4 (19.05%) OOP
6 4 (19.05%) Project Delivery
6 4 (19.05%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) JavaScript
2 8 (38.10%) C#
3 7 (33.33%) SQL
4 3 (14.29%) Python
5 1 (4.76%) C++
5 1 (4.76%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Azure Certification
1 8 (38.10%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (38.10%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Google
2 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (33.33%) SAP
3 4 (19.05%) Blue Prism
3 4 (19.05%) ServiceNow
4 2 (9.52%) Oracle
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco
5 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.76%) Siemens