Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Automated Testing
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 13 24
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 +5
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 1 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.53% 3.64% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 4.44% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £304 £466
25th Percentile - £378 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile - - £497
90th Percentile - - £499
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 163 90 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 86.70% 81.82% 88.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 58 121
10th Percentile £206 £213 £180
25th Percentile £306 £392 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.63% +9.44% -
75th Percentile £550 £584 £575
90th Percentile £603 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 5 15
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.99 £19.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.50 £25.13
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.99 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.35% -0.04% +8.33%
75th Percentile £25.15 £47.50 £33.66
90th Percentile £86.32 £59.50 £49.50
South East median hourly rate £22.27 £47.51 £54.39
% change year-on-year -53.14% -12.64% +45.03%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Test Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python