Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Malvern

Automated Testing
Worcestershire > Malvern

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Malvern requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 - 9
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 10 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Malvern 18.18% - 18.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.87% - 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile - - £521
25th Percentile - - £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £545
75th Percentile £813 - £571
90th Percentile £850 - £574
Worcestershire median daily rate £700 £280 £545
% change year-on-year +150.00% -48.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 53 16 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Malvern 96.36% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 14 17
10th Percentile £525 £508 £518
25th Percentile £538 £563 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £700 £672 £660
90th Percentile £750 £700 £695
Worcestershire median daily rate £600 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +15.38% -5.45% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
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 £18.23 £22.89 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.36% +29.15% +5.19%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Malvern

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Malvern.

Test Automation job vacancy trend 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 & Capabilities in Malvern by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 10 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform