Test Automation Contracts in Oxfordshire

Automated Testing
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 31 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 -9 -4
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 2 1 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 0.87% 0.41% 5.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.45% 6.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 16
10th Percentile - - £473
25th Percentile £469 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.85%
75th Percentile £506 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 185 220 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 80.79% 89.43% 83.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 145 193
10th Percentile £150 £258 £169
25th Percentile £262 £360 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £458 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% +1.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £506 £550 £575
90th Percentile £600 £657 £675
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 13 7
10th Percentile £12.30 £22.10 £14.75
25th Percentile £13.23 £25.95 £17.42
Median hourly rate £19.50 £26.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +30.00% -55.56%
75th Percentile £32.75 £32.30 -
90th Percentile £65.00 £52.90 £31.50
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.27% -20.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Oxfordshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Oxfordshire

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Oxfordshire

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
Oxford - 2 £488 - 1
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft