Test Automation Contracts in Hampshire

Automated Testing
South East > Hampshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 28 24
Rank change year-on-year -21 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 50 97 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 3.13% 6.80% 7.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.73% 7.68% 8.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 72 98
10th Percentile £473 £460 £350
25th Percentile £525 £512 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £484
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +18.86% +5.16%
75th Percentile £603 £625 £552
90th Percentile £610 £674 £658
South East median daily rate £550 £565 £500
% change year-on-year -2.65% +13.00% +10.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 14
10th Percentile - £49.38 £21.23
25th Percentile £72.50 £51.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £53.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +41.51% +21.14% +23.24%
75th Percentile £77.50 £58.38 £62.44
90th Percentile - £58.75 £67.80
South East median hourly rate £38.50 £53.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -27.36% -3.64% +32.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,339 1,263 1,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 83.84% 88.57% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 710 800 1,155
10th Percentile £387 £240 £310
25th Percentile £460 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +5.00% +7.56%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £600
90th Percentile £738 £694 £688
South East median daily rate £501 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -1.14% +1.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 107 152
10th Percentile £13.05 £18.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £25.68 £22.54 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £52.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% +110.00% -18.57%
75th Percentile £62.50 £67.50 £48.62
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.25 £63.14
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -12.62%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Hampshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Hampshire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Hampshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Hampshire

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Hampshire

Test 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 Test Automation within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Basingstoke -27 18 £595 -0.08% 4
Aldershot +7 6 £584 -6.97% 2
Eastleigh - 2 £450 - 1
Southampton +3 1 - - 6
Andover -3 1 £438 +2.64%
Winchester - 1 £525 - 2
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.00%) Confluence
1 1 (2.00%) IIS
1 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.00%) AWS
2 4 (8.00%) Azure
2 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (6.00%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 22 (44.00%) TestRail
2 17 (34.00%) Robot Framework
3 15 (30.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (14.00%) Jenkins
5 4 (8.00%) Selenium
6 2 (4.00%) GitLab
6 2 (4.00%) JIRA
7 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.00%) Git
7 1 (2.00%) JMeter
7 1 (2.00%) JUnit
7 1 (2.00%) MagicDraw
7 1 (2.00%) MSI
7 1 (2.00%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (2.00%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (2.00%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (2.00%) SoapUI
7 1 (2.00%) TestNG
7 1 (2.00%) Travis CI
7 1 (2.00%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.00%) Advertising
3 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 25 (50.00%) Analyst
2 22 (44.00%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
2 22 (44.00%) Test Analyst
3 12 (24.00%) Architect
3 12 (24.00%) Security Architect
4 6 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Environment Analyst
5 2 (4.00%) Security Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Senior
5 2 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) Biometrics Tester
6 1 (2.00%) Developer
6 1 (2.00%) Solutions Analyst
6 1 (2.00%) Test Practitioner
6 1 (2.00%) Tester
6 1 (2.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) .NET
1 1 (2.00%) Node.js
1 1 (2.00%) React
1 1 (2.00%) SOAP
1 1 (2.00%) Web Services
1 1 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.00%) PKI
2 3 (6.00%) Client/Server
2 3 (6.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.00%) Private Cloud
2 3 (6.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (38.00%) Windows
2 18 (36.00%) Windows Server
3 14 (28.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (10.00%) Linux
5 4 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.00%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (86.00%) Agile
2 24 (48.00%) Continuous Integration
3 22 (44.00%) Test Management
4 17 (34.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 13 (26.00%) DevOps
6 12 (24.00%) Requirements Analysis
7 9 (18.00%) Scrum
8 8 (16.00%) Application Security
9 7 (14.00%) Boundary Protection
9 7 (14.00%) Security Architecture
9 7 (14.00%) Service Management
10 6 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
10 6 (12.00%) Privileged Access Management
11 4 (8.00%) BDD
11 4 (8.00%) Configuration Management
12 3 (6.00%) Application Packaging
12 3 (6.00%) Application Virtualisation
12 3 (6.00%) End-to-End Testing
12 3 (6.00%) High Availability
12 3 (6.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 25 (50.00%) Python
2 23 (46.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (14.00%) Bash
3 7 (14.00%) C++
4 4 (8.00%) C
5 3 (6.00%) Java
5 3 (6.00%) Perl
5 3 (6.00%) Ruby
5 3 (6.00%) VBScript
6 1 (2.00%) Assembly Language
6 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.00%) MATLAB
6 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (84.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (54.00%) DV Cleared
3 22 (44.00%) ISTQB
3 22 (44.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) RMADS
2 1 (2.00%) IEC 61508
2 1 (2.00%) MISRA
2 1 (2.00%) MISRA C
System Software
1 17 (34.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (30.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (8.00%) Docker
4 1 (2.00%) Terminal Services
4 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (40.00%) Ansible
1 20 (40.00%) Terraform
2 6 (12.00%) Progress Chef
2 6 (12.00%) Puppet
3 4 (8.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.00%) Nagios
5 1 (2.00%) Nessus
5 1 (2.00%) vRealize
5 1 (2.00%) WMI
Vendors
1 18 (36.00%) VMware
2 3 (6.00%) New Relic
2 3 (6.00%) Splunk
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle
3 1 (2.00%) Red Hat