Test Automation Engineer Contracts in Leatherhead

Automation Test Engineer
Surrey > Leatherhead

The median Automation Test Engineer daily rate in Leatherhead is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leatherhead 3.85% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
Surrey median daily rate £450 - £413

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Leatherhead

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leatherhead. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Leatherhead with a recognized job title 26 59 51
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 90.77% 98.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 38 38
10th Percentile £180 £177 £156
25th Percentile £194 £410 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £519 £200
Median % change year-on-year -10.84% +159.38% -57.89%
75th Percentile £506 £619 £300
90th Percentile £556 £688 £609
Surrey median daily rate £484 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
10th Percentile - - £27.88
25th Percentile - - £30.31
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year - -17.24% +90.79%
75th Percentile - £50.00 £42.81
90th Percentile - £57.50 £45.63
Surrey median hourly rate £46.55 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +3.43% -5.26% +5.56%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leatherhead

Job postings that featured Test Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leatherhead.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Engineer in Leatherhead

Test Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Leatherhead

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Automation Engineer job vacancies in Leatherhead.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Automation Engineer job vacancies in Leatherhead

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leatherhead

For the 6 months to 22 August 2025, Test Automation Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leatherhead region featuring Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leatherhead 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#