Automated Testing
Suffolk > Ipswich
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Ipswich 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 8 May 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | - | - | 20 |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | - | -7 |
| Contract jobs citing Test Automation | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Ipswich | - | - | 3.39% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category | - | - | 3.74% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | £713 |
| 25th Percentile | - | - | £732 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | - | - | £743 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | - | +53.99% |
| 75th Percentile | - | - | - |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | - |
| Suffolk median daily rate | - | £641 | £743 |
| % change year-on-year | - | -13.80% | +53.99% |
All Process and Methodology Skills
Ipswich
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 Ipswich.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills | 20 | 29 | 107 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich | 58.82% | 82.86% | 90.68% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 13 | 20 | 94 |
| 10th Percentile | £156 | £105 | £404 |
| 25th Percentile | £200 | £165 | £528 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £425 | £463 | £700 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -8.11% | -33.93% | +43.59% |
| 75th Percentile | £519 | £500 | - |
| 90th Percentile | £600 | £578 | £745 |
| Suffolk median daily rate | £300 | £463 | £650 |
| % change year-on-year | -35.14% | -28.85% | +33.33% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| 10th Percentile | - | £19.38 | £16.23 |
| 25th Percentile | - | £22.94 | £16.95 |
| Median hourly rate | £70.00 | £29.25 | £18.28 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +139.32% | +60.01% | -26.88% |
| 75th Percentile | - | £35.94 | £19.48 |
| 90th Percentile | - | £39.73 | £20.13 |
| Suffolk median hourly rate | £70.00 | £29.25 | £15.50 |
| % change year-on-year | +139.32% | +88.71% | -24.39% |
Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich
Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Ipswich.
Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Ipswich.
Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Ipswich
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Ipswich.