Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Automated Testing
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 24 21
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 2 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.85% 1.23% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.46% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £459 £408
25th Percentile £425 £459 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £469 £440
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.53% -32.31%
75th Percentile £475 £479 £445
90th Percentile - £480 -
East Midlands median daily rate £400 £463 £440
% change year-on-year -13.51% +5.11% +12.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 185 137 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 78.39% 84.57% 79.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 76 90
10th Percentile £163 £313 £324
25th Percentile £199 £410 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +8.11% -15.91%
75th Percentile £538 £546 £600
90th Percentile £636 £581 £732
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £425 £440
% change year-on-year - -3.41% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 4 10
10th Percentile £12.95 £14.79 £10.35
25th Percentile £14.96 £14.99 £14.72
Median hourly rate £16.35 £23.80 £16.36
Median % change year-on-year -31.30% +45.52% +38.60%
75th Percentile £16.50 £54.56 £18.56
90th Percentile £17.87 £92.03 £26.50
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £23.34 £17.71
% change year-on-year -22.88% +31.79% +5.23%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

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

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 9 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottingham -5 2 £450 -4.26% 4
Test Automation
East Midlands

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) TestNG
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SailPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) API Testing
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) IT Audit
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Change
1 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISA
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (50.00%) COBIT
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow