Test Automation Contracts in Hounslow

Automated Testing
West London > Hounslow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hounslow 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 18 18
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 +5
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 3 11 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hounslow 2.27% 6.96% 7.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 7.24% 7.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 13
10th Percentile £239 £444 £386
25th Percentile £259 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% -4.76% -14.29%
75th Percentile £359 £548 £638
90th Percentile £376 £577 -
West London median daily rate £375 £525 £625
% change year-on-year -28.57% -16.00% +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
West London median hourly rate - £90.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hounslow

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 Hounslow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 126 152 213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hounslow 95.45% 96.20% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 61 155
10th Percentile £150 £350 £280
25th Percentile £270 £430 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £513 £510
Median % change year-on-year -19.76% +0.49% -3.32%
75th Percentile £543 £596 £618
90th Percentile £589 £663 £683
West London median daily rate £475 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -13.64% +7.84% -0.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 42 5
10th Percentile £18.13 £35.95 £19.85
25th Percentile £26.41 £56.69 £20.75
Median hourly rate £53.75 £66.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +206.98% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £41.50
90th Percentile £66.00 £89.50 £44.20
West London median hourly rate £30.16 £65.00 £21.93
% change year-on-year -53.60% +196.40% -18.78%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hounslow

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Hounslow

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hounslow

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Hounslow

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hounslow

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Hounslow

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Hounslow

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 Hounslow region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Isleworth -1 1 £250 -57.81%
Osterley -7 1 - -
Test Automation
West London

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hounslow 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Couchbase
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 1 (33.33%) Spock
2 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack C# Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Junior
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Scrum Master
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) pytest
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Redux
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Logistics
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) OOD
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) SOA
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) SOLID
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Groovy
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle