Test Automation Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Automated Testing
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 38 35 25
Rank change year-on-year -3 -10 +37
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 7 20 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.54% 4.04% 5.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 4.88% 6.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 23
10th Percentile £313 £440 £321
25th Percentile £342 £452 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £498 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% +4.74% -
75th Percentile £538 £532 £519
90th Percentile £544 £536 £570
East of England median daily rate £490 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -1.51% -0.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 6
10th Percentile - £50.93 £29.75
25th Percentile - £52.50 £37.13
Median hourly rate - £56.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -
75th Percentile - £66.25 £52.50
90th Percentile - £66.30 £53.13
East of England median hourly rate £50.00 £77.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year -35.69% +24.40% +28.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 244 410 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.41% 82.83% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 148 284
10th Percentile £296 £200 £200
25th Percentile £402 £350 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £550 £553 £536
90th Percentile £650 £683 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 194 150
10th Percentile £14.86 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +6.15%
75th Percentile £18.85 £21.46 £20.56
90th Percentile £22.93 £52.25 £22.06
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Cambridgeshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Cambridgeshire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Cambridgeshire

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Cambridgeshire

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge +2 4 £381 -23.37% 46
Test Automation
East of England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) BrowserStack
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) SNA
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Postman
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Electronics
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
1 2 (28.57%) Marketing
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) C++ Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer in Test
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
1 2 (28.57%) Linux Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Python Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
2 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Mac OS
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) AIX
3 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) API Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Office Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Programme Management
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Compatibility Testing
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) ERP
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) ITSM
3 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
3 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Test Management
3 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) Groovy
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
1 1 (14.29%) vRealize
1 1 (14.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) HP
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) LogRhythm
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
2 1 (14.29%) VMware