Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Dunstable

Automated Testing
Bedfordshire > Dunstable

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dunstable requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dunstable 16.67% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £450 £650 -
% change year-on-year -30.77% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dunstable

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 Dunstable.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6 2 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dunstable 100.00% 100.00% 93.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 11
10th Percentile £428 £260 £295
25th Percentile £450 £275 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £300 £325
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -7.69% -24.64%
75th Percentile £516 £325 £375
90th Percentile £519 £340 £388
Bedfordshire median daily rate £500 £580 £525
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £68.21 £30.78 £21.50
% change year-on-year +121.60% +43.16% -61.49%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Dunstable

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Dunstable

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Dunstable

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

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

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dunstable 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) VBScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler