Test Automation Contracts in Reigate

Automated Testing
Surrey > Reigate

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reigate requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 11 1
Rank change year-on-year +8 -10 +16
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 9 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reigate 47.37% 6.45% 33.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 47.37% 6.67% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £479
25th Percentile £438 £513 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +2.44% -14.58%
75th Percentile £513 £538 £534
90th Percentile - - £536
Surrey median daily rate £500 £588 £500
% change year-on-year -14.89% +17.50% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reigate

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 Reigate.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19 30 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reigate 100.00% 96.77% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 20 4
10th Percentile £355 £350 £486
25th Percentile £438 £456 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £569 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.09% +8.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £731 £700 £634
90th Percentile £943 £788 £809
Surrey median daily rate £470 £500 £514
% change year-on-year -6.00% -2.68% +2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £17.80 -
Surrey median hourly rate £26.33 £20.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +28.41% -54.44% +87.50%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reigate

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Reigate

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reigate

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Reigate

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reigate 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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) SaaS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Stack
4 1 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Cypress.io
2 4 (44.44%) Git
2 4 (44.44%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (33.33%) JMeter
3 3 (33.33%) SpecFlow
4 2 (22.22%) Moq
4 2 (22.22%) Selenium
4 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio
5 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
5 1 (11.11%) JIRA
5 1 (11.11%) Mocha
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Senior
2 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Developer
3 3 (33.33%) QA Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Pensions Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) AngularJS
1 4 (44.44%) CSS
1 4 (44.44%) HTML
1 4 (44.44%) RESTful
1 4 (44.44%) YAML
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) .NET Core
2 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
2 2 (22.22%) Bootstrap
2 2 (22.22%) JSON
2 2 (22.22%) React
2 2 (22.22%) Vue
2 2 (22.22%) XML
3 1 (11.11%) Playwright
3 1 (11.11%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) User Experience
3 5 (55.56%) Design Patterns
3 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) Insurtech
4 4 (44.44%) OO
4 4 (44.44%) Product Backlog
4 4 (44.44%) Progressive Web App
4 4 (44.44%) Scrum
4 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
4 4 (44.44%) SOLID
4 4 (44.44%) Sprint Planning
4 4 (44.44%) Sprint Retrospective
4 4 (44.44%) Technical Debt
4 4 (44.44%) Unit Testing
4 4 (44.44%) UX Design
4 4 (44.44%) Wireframes
5 3 (33.33%) Mathematics
5 3 (33.33%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) C#
1 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
1 7 (77.78%) TypeScript
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 2 (22.22%) GMP
2 2 (22.22%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft