Test Automation Contracts in Devon

Automated Testing
South West > Devon

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Devon with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 27 30
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -15
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 3 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 1.08% 3.88% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 4.73% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 6
10th Percentile - £413 £498
25th Percentile - - £590
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% +10.32%
75th Percentile - - £674
90th Percentile - £719 £675
South West median daily rate £556 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +1.14% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £75.25 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.91% +51.26% +3.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Devon

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Devon with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 222 169 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 80.14% 82.04% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 130 163
10th Percentile £150 £240 £171
25th Percentile £308 £400 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £473 £407
Median % change year-on-year -10.05% +15.96% -22.39%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £590
90th Percentile £600 £675 £666
South West median daily rate £525 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 9 5
10th Percentile £10.42 £39.60 £18.43
25th Percentile £13.86 £47.00 £20.32
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +161.90% -10.16%
75th Percentile £50.00 £60.00 £39.16
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.00 £41.46
South West median hourly rate £47.92 £61.50 £48.48
% change year-on-year -22.09% +26.86% +7.73%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Devon

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Devon

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Devon

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Devon

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 Devon region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Exeter -3 2 £600 - 2
Plymouth +3 1 - - 2
Test Automation
South West

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Full Stack Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Python Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) CSS3
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) HTML5
1 2 (66.67%) Jest
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) React Native
1 2 (66.67%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Backlog Management
1 2 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 2 (66.67%) BDD
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Full Stack Development
1 2 (66.67%) Loose Coupling
1 2 (66.67%) Runbook
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Kotlin
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform