Test Automation Contracts in Crawley

Automated Testing
West Sussex > Crawley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Crawley 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 6 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 5 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Crawley 15.63% - 4.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.83% - 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - £333
25th Percentile £463 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £375
75th Percentile £738 - £438
90th Percentile - - £445
West Sussex median daily rate £475 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +18.75% -23.81% +0.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Crawley

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 Crawley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 24 56 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Crawley 75.00% 84.85% 75.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 39 78
10th Percentile £193 £143 £175
25th Percentile £325 £200 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% -7.50% +19.05%
75th Percentile £525 £563 £606
90th Percentile £738 £588 £698
West Sussex median daily rate £463 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% +4.84%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Crawley

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Crawley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Crawley

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Crawley

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Daily Rate Histogram in Crawley

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Crawley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Crawley

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Crawley

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Crawley 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Postman
1 2 (40.00%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Test Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Component Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (60.00%) Data-Driven Testing
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Test Management
2 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Verification and Validation
3 2 (40.00%) API Testing
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (40.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared