Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Middlesex

Automated Testing
South East > Middlesex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Middlesex requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Middlesex 11.76% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £518 - -
25th Percentile £530 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 - -
75th Percentile £573 - -
90th Percentile £586 - -
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.29%

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 15 3 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Middlesex 88.24% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 9
10th Percentile £537 £282 -
25th Percentile £575 £401 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.92% +33.22% -43.75%
75th Percentile £749 £675 £575
90th Percentile £796 £720 £580
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +23.01%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Middlesex

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Middlesex

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Middlesex

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

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

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Middlesex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Middlesex citing Test Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Middlesex citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Middlesex 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 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google