Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Herefordshire

Automated Testing
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Herefordshire requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Herefordshire 4.84% 10.00% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% 11.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £480 - -
25th Percentile £581 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -
75th Percentile £850 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £477 £498 £425
% change year-on-year -4.22% +17.06% -11.96%

All Process & 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 51 18 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 82.26% 90.00% 97.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 13 19
10th Percentile £413 £330 £513
25th Percentile £525 £400 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £800 £579
90th Percentile £750 £900 £647
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 3
10th Percentile £21.46 £19.78 -
25th Percentile £22.79 £21.70 £45.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £25.51 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +147.54% -48.99% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £29.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £72.54 £32.23 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £18.07 £22.50
% change year-on-year +38.39% -19.71% +26.98%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Herefordshire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

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

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Herefordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Herefordshire over the 6 months to 2 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 2 April 2026. 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 -5 2 £800 +14.29%
Leominster - 1 £425 - 1
Test Automation
West Midlands

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) YAML
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) SDET
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
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
2 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform