Test Automation Contracts in Slough

Automated Testing
Berkshire > Slough

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Slough 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 25 33
Rank change year-on-year +16 +8 -8
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 6 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Slough 8.11% 2.00% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.17% 2.09% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £333 £331
25th Percentile - £344 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £375 £444
Median % change year-on-year +56.00% -15.49% -11.25%
75th Percentile - £394 £489
90th Percentile - £398 £604
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £531 £500
% change year-on-year +12.94% +6.25% +5.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Slough

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 Slough with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59 191 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Slough 79.73% 95.50% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 150 175
10th Percentile £280 £280 £237
25th Percentile £300 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.93% -2.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £566
90th Percentile £585 £625 £608
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 19
10th Percentile - £17.20 £17.00
25th Percentile - £18.63 -
Median hourly rate £11.79 £21.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.86% +20.00% -16.86%
75th Percentile £28.50 £22.00 £21.03
90th Percentile £65.40 £22.60 £21.54
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Slough

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Slough

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Slough

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Slough

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Slough 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:

Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) TestLink
2 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Ericsson Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) AAT
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Ericsson