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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 35 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 -18 +41
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 6 21 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.97% 4.02% 6.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 4.84% 7.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 21
10th Percentile £221 £419 £305
25th Percentile £253 £448 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £498 £450
Median % change year-on-year -35.68% +10.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £419 £525 £488
90th Percentile £498 £535 £525
East of England median daily rate £468 £495 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% +4.21% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 8
10th Percentile - - £40.00
25th Percentile - £51.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -
75th Percentile - £65.00 £52.81
90th Percentile - £66.25 £53.75
East of England median hourly rate £58.50 £57.50 £77.00
% change year-on-year +1.74% -25.32% +71.11%

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 269 434 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.20% 82.98% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 153 248
10th Percentile £246 £209 £225
25th Percentile £376 £325 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £536
90th Percentile £684 £638 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £440 £500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 183 168
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.84 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.27 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £18.90 £25.00 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.13 £53.75 £23.58
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -20.90% +90.48% +7.69%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -4 4 £413 -16.88% 71
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) Appium
2 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (16.67%) Gatling
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JMeter
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
2 1 (16.67%) Postman
2 1 (16.67%) TestNG
2 1 (16.67%) webpack
General
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) Celery
2 1 (16.67%) D3.js
2 1 (16.67%) Django
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) Sass
2 1 (16.67%) Vue
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 3 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 3 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) API Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Service Management
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
1 1 (16.67%) vRealize
1 1 (16.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Dell
1 1 (16.67%) LogRhythm
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
1 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
1 1 (16.67%) VMware