Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Automated Testing
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 20 21
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 11 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 6.04% 4.76% 4.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.59% 5.63% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 6
10th Percentile £296 - -
25th Percentile £358 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% -13.04% +19.79%
75th Percentile £488 - £588
90th Percentile £545 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 145 71 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 79.67% 84.52% 93.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 52 70
10th Percentile £313 £375 £300
25th Percentile £400 £425 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £589
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -10.87% +17.81%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £667
90th Percentile £675 £725 £713
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile - £77.63 £18.63
25th Percentile £19.25 £77.81 £22.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £81.25 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.77% +150.00% -16.13%
75th Percentile - £85.31 £52.50
90th Percentile £53.35 £85.88 £57.50
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year -40.83% -40.68% +39.10%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Farnborough

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

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

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Farnborough over the 6 months to 19 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Farnborough

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

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

Test 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Jenkins
2 6 (54.55%) Cucumber
3 5 (45.45%) JIRA
3 5 (45.45%) REST Assured
3 5 (45.45%) Selenium
4 4 (36.36%) Bitbucket
5 2 (18.18%) Gatling
5 2 (18.18%) Git
5 2 (18.18%) GitLab
5 2 (18.18%) Gradle
6 1 (9.09%) JMeter
6 1 (9.09%) JUnit
6 1 (9.09%) LoadRunner
6 1 (9.09%) Maven
6 1 (9.09%) Postman
6 1 (9.09%) TestNG
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Automotive
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Automation Tester
1 4 (36.36%) Selenium Automation Tester
1 4 (36.36%) Selenium Tester
1 4 (36.36%) Tester
2 3 (27.27%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Informatica Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) REST
1 5 (45.45%) RESTful
2 4 (36.36%) .NET
2 4 (36.36%) SOAP
3 3 (27.27%) Swagger
4 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
4 2 (18.18%) CSS
4 2 (18.18%) HTML
4 2 (18.18%) jQuery
4 2 (18.18%) React
5 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
5 1 (9.09%) JPA
5 1 (9.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Client/Server
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
1 1 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
1 7 (63.64%) Regression Testing
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (36.36%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) TDD
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) API Development
5 2 (18.18%) API Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Contract Management
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Front End Development
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Observability
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) C#
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) Bash
5 1 (9.09%) Go
5 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) OCP
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) Proxmox
3 1 (9.09%) Rundeck
3 1 (9.09%) Salt
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Informatica
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) VMware