QA Automation Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire 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 80 77 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.093% 0.27% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £413 -
South East median daily rate £500 £413 -
% change year-on-year +21.21% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 933 902 1,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.39% 80.32% 87.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 595 649
10th Percentile £311 £360 £280
25th Percentile £443 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +2.42% +2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £642 £638
90th Percentile £653 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.19% -1.70% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 60 90
10th Percentile £16.17 £25.85 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £20.71 £66.68 £51.96
Median % change year-on-year -68.94% +28.32% +15.47%
75th Percentile £26.33 £75.00 £61.88
90th Percentile £50.00 - £70.59
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.40% +10.80% +40.00%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

QA Automation job vacancy trend in Hampshire

QA Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing QA Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing QA Automation

QA Automation
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Farnborough - 1 - -
QA Automation
South East

QA Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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