Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Crawley

Automated Testing
West Sussex > Crawley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Crawley requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Crawley 1.01% 3.64% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 4.76% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £460
25th Percentile - £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -9.52% -
75th Percentile - £488 £600
90th Percentile - - £630
West Sussex median daily rate £358 £386 £425
% change year-on-year -7.25% -9.18% -26.09%

All Process & 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 70 42 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Crawley 70.71% 76.36% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 33 35
10th Percentile £185 £170 £200
25th Percentile £223 £193 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £270 £450
Median % change year-on-year +71.30% -40.00% +20.32%
75th Percentile £575 £425 £526
90th Percentile £650 £466 £588
West Sussex median daily rate £450 £388 £450
% change year-on-year +16.13% -13.89% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £16.00 -
West Sussex median hourly rate £26.75 £18.82 £25.75
% change year-on-year +42.14% -26.91% +5.27%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Crawley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Crawley.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Crawley

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Crawley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Test Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Crawley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Test Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Crawley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Newman
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA