QA Automation Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
Hampshire > Farnborough

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 0.82% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Hampshire median daily rate - £413 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Farnborough

QA 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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 112 119 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 91.80% 79.33% 98.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 82 75
10th Percentile £313 £378 £278
25th Percentile £378 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £590 £674 £667
90th Percentile £673 £750 £713
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £551 £538
% change year-on-year -4.63% +2.42% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 14
10th Percentile - £69.75 £17.68
25th Percentile £19.25 - £21.05
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% +66.67% -
75th Percentile £41.00 - £59.69
90th Percentile £53.75 £76.50 £79.25
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £66.68 £51.96
% change year-on-year -68.94% +28.32% +15.47%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

QA Automation job vacancy trend in Farnborough

QA Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Smoke Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker