Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Skipton

Automated Testing
North Yorkshire > Skipton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Skipton requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Skipton 25.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £432 - -
25th Percentile £460 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - -
75th Percentile £495 - -
90th Percentile £536 - -
North Yorkshire median daily rate £520 - £500

All Process & Methodology Skills
Skipton

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 Skipton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 20 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Skipton 100.00% - 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 0 5
10th Percentile £413 - £400
25th Percentile £451 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +47.37%
75th Percentile £594 - -
90th Percentile - - £723
North Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% +25.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Skipton

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Skipton

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Skipton

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

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

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Skipton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Skipton over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Skipton

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Skipton 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 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Datadog
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Code
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) API Development
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Google