Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Norwich

Automated Testing
Norfolk > Norwich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Norwich requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Norwich 2.56% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £675 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Norfolk median daily rate £700 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Norwich

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 Norwich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 120 16 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Norwich 76.92% 94.12% 82.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 9 20
10th Percentile £161 £191 £176
25th Percentile £253 £278 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% +87.57%
75th Percentile £544 - £538
90th Percentile £580 £475 -
Norfolk median daily rate £425 £365 £375
% change year-on-year +16.44% -2.67% +63.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 8
10th Percentile £10.63 £14.89 £12.53
25th Percentile £13.72 £15.23 £14.09
Median hourly rate £14.11 £15.80 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.70% -8.41% -17.90%
75th Percentile £20.75 £18.79 £26.25
90th Percentile £22.81 £20.48 £28.43
Norfolk median hourly rate £15.79 £15.33 £15.63
% change year-on-year +3.02% -1.90% -25.63%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Norwich

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Norwich

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Norwich

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

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

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Norwich 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) dbt
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) DataOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Lead Test Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Test Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
1 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) FHIR
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) DataOps
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) HL7
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) HP ALM
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cerner
1 1 (25.00%) HP
1 1 (25.00%) Informatica
1 1 (25.00%) MEDITECH
1 1 (25.00%) Talend