Test Automation Contracts in Bristol

Automated Testing
South West > Bristol

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 64 55
Rank change year-on-year +12 -9 -17
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 27 33 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 2.56% 2.59% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 2.91% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 24 36
10th Percentile £441 £434 £387
25th Percentile £494 £513 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £550 £518
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% +6.28% +11.29%
75th Percentile £590 £656 £603
90th Percentile £667 £756 £631
South West median daily rate £556 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +1.14% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.98
25th Percentile £52.50 - £50.69
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £51.88
75th Percentile £85.00 - £53.06
90th Percentile - - £53.78
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £75.25 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.91% +51.26% +3.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 872 1,135 1,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 82.81% 89.09% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 759 855
10th Percentile £250 £300 £313
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £586
90th Percentile £686 £714 £661
South West median daily rate £525 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 225 104
10th Percentile £37.00 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £9.80 £15.90
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +40.46% -2.70%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.75 £66.80
South West median hourly rate £47.92 £61.50 £48.48
% change year-on-year -22.09% +26.86% +7.73%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024.

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 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Simulink
1 5 (18.52%) Stateflow
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.70%) Azure App Service
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) HTTP
2 3 (11.11%) Firewall
3 1 (3.70%) DNS
3 1 (3.70%) VSAN
3 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (18.52%) SQLite
2 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Git
2 5 (18.52%) Checkstyle
2 5 (18.52%) SonarQube
3 4 (14.81%) JIRA
3 4 (14.81%) Postman
4 3 (11.11%) NUnit
4 3 (11.11%) Visual Studio
5 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.70%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (3.70%) Selenium
5 1 (3.70%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (18.52%) Automotive
1 5 (18.52%) Legal
2 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Electronics
3 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Marketing
4 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Software Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Senior
2 5 (18.52%) Test Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Lead
3 4 (14.81%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Automation Test Lead
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Test Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Test Leader
5 2 (7.41%) .NET Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Developer
5 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Test Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Test Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Test Automation Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Test Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) .NET
2 6 (22.22%) .NET Core
3 5 (18.52%) .NET Framework
3 5 (18.52%) JSON
3 5 (18.52%) REST
3 5 (18.52%) XML
4 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
5 3 (11.11%) GraphQL
5 3 (11.11%) Playwright
6 1 (3.70%) Blazor
6 1 (3.70%) CSS
6 1 (3.70%) CSS3
6 1 (3.70%) HTML
6 1 (3.70%) HTML5
6 1 (3.70%) Kafka
6 1 (3.70%) Node.js
6 1 (3.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Algorithms
2 4 (14.81%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) PKI
3 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) STB
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Unix
2 3 (11.11%) VMS
2 3 (11.11%) Windows 2000
2 3 (11.11%) Windows XP
3 2 (7.41%) Linux
4 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) DevOps
2 12 (44.44%) Agile
3 11 (40.74%) Software Engineering
4 7 (25.93%) TDD
5 6 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 6 (22.22%) Design Patterns
5 6 (22.22%) OO
6 5 (18.52%) Code Quality
6 5 (18.52%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
6 5 (18.52%) Manual Testing
6 5 (18.52%) Performance Testing
6 5 (18.52%) Security Testing
6 5 (18.52%) Test Strategy
6 5 (18.52%) Validation
6 5 (18.52%) Verification and Validation
7 4 (14.81%) BDD
7 4 (14.81%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (14.81%) Kanban
7 4 (14.81%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) C#
2 5 (18.52%) MATLAB
2 5 (18.52%) SQL
3 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
3 4 (14.81%) TypeScript
4 3 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 6 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) Degree
4 2 (7.41%) HND
4 2 (7.41%) ISTQB
4 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 3 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.41%) vSphere
3 1 (3.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Terraform
2 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 3 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 3 (11.11%) Juniper
2 3 (11.11%) VMware
3 2 (7.41%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) Atlassian