Test Automation Contracts in Milton Keynes

Automated Testing
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 43 47
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 -20
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 9 31 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 2.21% 4.08% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 4.27% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 27 13
10th Percentile £496 £344 £300
25th Percentile £547 £500 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £360
Median % change year-on-year - +66.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £634 £675 £480
90th Percentile £650 - £483
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £600 £600 £360
% change year-on-year - +66.67% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 349 726 576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 85.54% 95.65% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 594 444
10th Percentile £261 £263 £207
25th Percentile £400 £400 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.70%
75th Percentile £599 £560 £553
90th Percentile £725 £650 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £475 £468
% change year-on-year - +1.60% +1.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 1 32
10th Percentile £15.85 - £10.39
25th Percentile £17.82 £9.50 -
Median hourly rate £23.22 £10.00 £10.77
Median % change year-on-year +132.15% -7.15% -17.03%
75th Percentile £30.00 £10.50 £12.81
90th Percentile £48.75 - £18.48
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £25.00 £10.00 £11.14
% change year-on-year +150.00% -10.19% -14.35%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure API Management
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Functions
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) PaaS
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) Postman
1 2 (22.22%) REST Assured
1 2 (22.22%) WebDriver
2 1 (11.11%) Appium
2 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) JMeter
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
2 1 (11.11%) TestNG
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Developer
1 2 (22.22%) C# Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) QA Manager
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) OpenAPI
1 2 (22.22%) Swagger
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) Playwright
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) API Management
3 2 (22.22%) Creative Thinking
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (22.22%) Manual Testing
3 2 (22.22%) OO
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
3 2 (22.22%) SOLID
3 2 (22.22%) TDD
3 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
4 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
4 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Test Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
1 1 (11.11%) Puppet
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
1 1 (11.11%) vRealize
1 1 (11.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Dell
1 1 (11.11%) LogRhythm
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
1 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
1 1 (11.11%) VMware