Taurus Contract Job Trends in England

Taurus Test Automation Framework
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Taurus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 524 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Contract jobs citing Taurus 1 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.004% 0.028% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.016% 0.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £370 -
UK median daily rate - £370 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Taurus falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,426 7,115 9,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.78% 22.19% 22.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,303 4,561 6,647
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -6.96% -1.32% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 151 194
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.75 £41.25
25th Percentile £41.51 £43.00 £46.20
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.80 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £50.72 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -21.97% +13.04% -11.54%

Taurus
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Taurus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Taurus job vacancy trend in England

Taurus
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Taurus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Taurus

Taurus
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Taurus within the England region over the 6 months to 16 October 2025. 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
East of England - 1 - -
Taurus
UK

Taurus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
1 1 (100.00%) Newman
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) TestCafe
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform