Test Automation Contracts in Shropshire

Automated Testing
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 21 - 55
Rank change year-on-year - - -16
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 11 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 8.46% - 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.80% - 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile £372 - £410
25th Percentile £413 - £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £423
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £507 - £436
90th Percentile £628 - £437
West Midlands median daily rate £495 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +16.47% -15.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 125 83 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 96.15% 61.94% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 51 125
10th Percentile £311 £260 £410
25th Percentile £403 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £378 £538
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% -29.74% +6.53%
75th Percentile £537 £497 £540
90th Percentile £544 £519 £595
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £12.18 £10.42 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -81.05% +214.29%
75th Percentile - £11.32 £57.50
90th Percentile - £14.26 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Shropshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Shropshire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Shropshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Shropshire

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Telford - 10 £463 - 14
Test Automation
West Midlands

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) SAS
1 1 (9.09%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) IDMS
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) GitLab
2 3 (27.27%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
4 1 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 1 (9.09%) CA Gen
4 1 (9.09%) JBehave
4 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 1 (9.09%) Selenium
4 1 (9.09%) SoapUI
4 1 (9.09%) Toad
4 1 (9.09%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) QA Leader
3 1 (9.09%) QA Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) CSS
1 2 (18.18%) HTML
1 2 (18.18%) Next.js
1 2 (18.18%) React
2 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
2 1 (9.09%) Web Services
2 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Software Delivery
5 3 (27.27%) BDD
5 3 (27.27%) Microservices
5 3 (27.27%) Pair Programming
5 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Business Analysis
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Defect Management
6 2 (18.18%) Front End Development
6 2 (18.18%) Integration Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
6 2 (18.18%) TDD
6 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
6 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
6 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
6 2 (18.18%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) COBOL
4 1 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) ISEB
2 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
3 1 (9.09%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) QAD
1 1 (9.09%) SAP
1 1 (9.09%) webMethods