Test Automation Contracts in Middlesex

Automated Testing
South East > Middlesex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Middlesex 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 4 12 13
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 1 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Middlesex 14.29% 7.14% 7.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.67% 7.41% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £479
25th Percentile - - £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £550
75th Percentile - - £625
90th Percentile - - £655
South East median daily rate £513 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -6.82% -3.51% +14.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Middlesex

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 Middlesex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6 27 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Middlesex 85.71% 96.43% 97.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 39
10th Percentile £440 £179 £459
25th Percentile £500 £263 £630
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £375 £800
Median % change year-on-year +59.87% -53.13% +60.00%
75th Percentile £750 £477 £1,025
90th Percentile £810 £556 £1,188
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £43.25 -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Middlesex

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Middlesex

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Middlesex

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Middlesex

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Middlesex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Middlesex.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Middlesex

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Middlesex 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:

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Collection
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform