Test Automation Contracts in Malvern

Automated Testing
Worcestershire > Malvern

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Malvern 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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - 7
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Test Automation 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Malvern 10.00% - 15.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.34% - 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £533
25th Percentile - - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £575
75th Percentile - - £594
90th Percentile - - £598
Worcestershire median daily rate £700 £280 £569
% change year-on-year +150.00% -50.77% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Worcestershire median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Malvern

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 Malvern.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29 20 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Malvern 96.67% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 19 14
10th Percentile £525 £513 -
25th Percentile £563 £519 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £700 £588 £600
90th Percentile £820 - £676
Worcestershire median daily rate £600 £525 £465
% change year-on-year +14.29% +12.90% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £65.00 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -
75th Percentile - £75.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Worcestershire median hourly rate £82.00 £14.74 £46.75
% change year-on-year +456.50% -68.48% +233.93%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Malvern

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Malvern

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Malvern

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

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

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Malvern 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform