Test Automation Engineer Contracts in Cardiff

Automation Test Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Automation Test Engineer daily rate in Cardiff is £363 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 5 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 2.35% - 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.53% - 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile - - £388
25th Percentile £350 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - £501
75th Percentile £369 - £625
90th Percentile £391 - £638
South Wales median daily rate £363 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -46.30% +22.73% +29.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cardiff with a recognized job title 198 328 521
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 96.47% 97.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 264 401
10th Percentile £199 £181 £231
25th Percentile £369 £346 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile £620 £625 £638
South Wales median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 5
10th Percentile £11.32 £12.71 £13.45
25th Percentile £11.75 £13.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £13.50 £16.45 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.91% -12.29% +14.42%
75th Percentile £18.00 £20.92 £23.75
90th Percentile £39.45 £24.25 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +25.03% -8.89% +10.61%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings that featured Test Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Engineer in Cardiff

Test Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation Engineer in Cardiff

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Test Automation Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cardiff region featuring Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Cucumber
2 4 (80.00%) BDD
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Azure
4 2 (40.00%) Java
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) Python
4 2 (40.00%) ETL
4 2 (40.00%) JMeter
4 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (20.00%) JIRA
5 1 (20.00%) GCP
5 1 (20.00%) AWS
5 1 (20.00%) C#

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
2 4 (80.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (40.00%) JMeter
4 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) BDD
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#