Test Automation Contracts in Knutsford

Automated Testing
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford 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 19 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 10 0 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 6.85% - 8.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.99% - 9.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 12
10th Percentile £298 - £415
25th Percentile £335 - £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - £445
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.33%
75th Percentile £447 - £501
90th Percentile £505 - £667
Cheshire median daily rate £466 £510 £445
% change year-on-year -8.63% +14.61% -1.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 143 98 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 97.95% 90.74% 91.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 90 115
10th Percentile £341 £362 £342
25th Percentile £358 £401 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% -7.95% +19.05%
75th Percentile £492 £598 £621
90th Percentile £537 £627 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £455 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Knutsford

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Knutsford

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Knutsford over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Knutsford

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 3 (30.00%) Confluence
2 2 (20.00%) CICS
2 2 (20.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (20.00%) DB2
1 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Selenium
2 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (20.00%) Git
3 2 (20.00%) SOAtest
4 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (10.00%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (10.00%) Gradle
4 1 (10.00%) HP UFT
4 1 (10.00%) IntelliJ
4 1 (10.00%) JUnit
4 1 (10.00%) Maven
4 1 (10.00%) NetBeans
4 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 7 (70.00%) Banking
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (20.00%) General Ledger
4 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Test Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Tester
2 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Mainframe Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) HTML
1 3 (30.00%) J2EE
1 3 (30.00%) Web Services
2 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (20.00%) CSS
2 2 (20.00%) HTML5
2 2 (20.00%) jQuery
2 2 (20.00%) JSON
2 2 (20.00%) Node.js
2 2 (20.00%) Spring
2 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (10.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (10.00%) CSS3
3 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Integration
3 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (20.00%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (20.00%) VSAM
3 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (30.00%) Microservices
2 3 (30.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (20.00%) API Development
3 2 (20.00%) API Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (20.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) Test Management
3 2 (20.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) COBOL
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) JCL
2 2 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) REXX
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Ruby
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) HP ALM
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (10.00%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
1 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (20.00%) Ab Initio
2 2 (20.00%) HP
2 2 (20.00%) Informatica
2 2 (20.00%) Parasoft
3 1 (10.00%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft