Test Automation Contracts in Gloucester

Automated Testing
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucester requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 21 31
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 3 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucester 3.30% 2.38% 5.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 2.70% 5.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £695 - £475
25th Percentile £697 - £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £560
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile - - £616
90th Percentile - - £667
Gloucestershire median daily rate £697 £531 £625
% change year-on-year +31.20% -15.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £31.25 -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - £31.25 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -59.94% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76 74 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 83.52% 88.10% 94.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 55 109
10th Percentile £222 £400 £275
25th Percentile £400 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £623 £631 £588
90th Percentile £745 £706 £669
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile £21.04 £17.82 £40.60
25th Percentile £21.89 £18.85 £54.63
Median hourly rate £23.30 £21.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.95% -73.08% -
75th Percentile £24.71 £26.81 -
90th Percentile £25.56 £31.88 -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £67.50 £35.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +92.86% -50.00% +116.05%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Gloucester

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Gloucester

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester 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%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform