Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Automated Testing
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 21 21
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 17 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 12.23% 4.85% 4.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.78% 5.49% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 2
10th Percentile - - £515
25th Percentile £227 £711 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £723 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +31.36% -21.43%
75th Percentile - £734 £594
90th Percentile £850 - £605
Gloucestershire median daily rate £563 £636 £575
% change year-on-year -11.59% +10.65% -17.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £27.13
25th Percentile - - £28.44
Median hourly rate - - £31.25
75th Percentile - - £33.44
90th Percentile - - £34.38
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Process & 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 133 91 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 95.68% 88.35% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 69 66
10th Percentile £227 £363 £365
25th Percentile £375 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +6.24%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £685
90th Percentile £700 £737 £706
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -17.39% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 7
10th Percentile £24.28 £20.88 £20.00
25th Percentile - £21.49 £21.00
Median hourly rate £51.21 £23.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +122.65% -16.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile - £24.81 £56.50
90th Percentile £61.14 £25.60 £78.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £51.21 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year -18.06% +28.28% -18.80%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Gloucester

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

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

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Gloucester over the 6 months to 24 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Gloucester

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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 16 (94.12%) GitHub
2 11 (64.71%) Azure
3 6 (35.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.88%) Git
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Tester
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) YAML
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
1 11 (64.71%) Containerisation
1 11 (64.71%) DevOps
1 11 (64.71%) DevSecOps
1 11 (64.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (58.82%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (58.82%) Regulatory Compliance
3 6 (35.29%) Agile
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security
4 1 (5.88%) High Availability
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (5.88%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Bicep
1 1 (5.88%) C#
1 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.88%) Python
1 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (94.12%) DV Cleared
3 11 (64.71%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (58.82%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) Kubernetes
1 11 (64.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft