Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Solihull

Automated Testing
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Solihull requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 8 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 5 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Solihull 7.69% 14.29% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.87% 15.38% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £406 £371 -
25th Percentile £434 £416 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £489 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% - -
75th Percentile £487 £490 -
90th Percentile £490 £490 -
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £483 £450
% change year-on-year -0.41% +7.33% -6.78%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46 26 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 70.77% 92.86% 84.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 16 45
10th Percentile £267 £167 £260
25th Percentile £392 £240 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £418 £375
Median % change year-on-year +7.43% +11.33% -16.76%
75th Percentile £568 £482 £425
90th Percentile £944 £539 £625
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.01 £18.32 £23.00
% change year-on-year +20.14% -20.35% +29.80%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Solihull

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

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

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

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) JMeter
2 2 (40.00%) JUnit
2 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
1 3 (60.00%) Test Leader
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Automation Test Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Tester
3 1 (20.00%) QA Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Selenium Automation Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Selenium Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) WireMock
3 1 (20.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) API Testing
3 2 (40.00%) ArchiMate
3 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Domain Models
3 2 (40.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Load Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (40.00%) UML
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft