Test Automation Contracts in Milton Keynes

Automated Testing
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes 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 25 35 46
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 +2
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 6 9 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 3.47% 2.31% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 2.72% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 25
10th Percentile £325 £496 £340
25th Percentile £334 £547 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% - +60.00%
75th Percentile £384 £634 £675
90th Percentile £393 £650 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £375 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -37.50% - +60.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 331 717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 93.64% 84.87% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 240 583
10th Percentile £292 £280 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £599 £590 £573
90th Percentile £650 £703 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £501 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +5.37% -1.04% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 21 1
10th Percentile £13.68 £15.85 -
25th Percentile £14.69 £17.64 £9.50
Median hourly rate £17.25 £23.22 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.69% +132.15% -7.15%
75th Percentile £28.81 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £43.78 £48.75 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
% change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Milton Keynes

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Milton Keynes

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Milton Keynes

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MS Access
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) QARun
1 2 (33.33%) WinRunner
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Analyst
1 6 (100.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Manual Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Middleware
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Integration Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Logistics
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
1 4 (66.67%) System Integration Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Test Planning
1 4 (66.67%) Validation
1 4 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 3 (50.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (33.33%) Case Management
3 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Test Assurance
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
1 2 (33.33%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint