Test Automation Contracts in Herefordshire

Automated Testing
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Herefordshire 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 9 - 16
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Herefordshire 9.09% - 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.11% - 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £525
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £495 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +16.47% -15.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18 49 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 81.82% 98.00% 97.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 28 32
10th Percentile £380 £518 £414
25th Percentile £450 £536 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 £629
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -12.52% +30.65%
75th Percentile £800 £769 £691
90th Percentile £900 £850 £723
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £18.51 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -62.98% - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Herefordshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Herefordshire

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Ledbury - 2 £700 -
Test Automation
West Midlands

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Herefordshire 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 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform