Automation Test Lead Contracts in the South West

Test Automation Leader
England > South West

As of 23 April 2024, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Test Automation Leader daily rate in the South West.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 - 163
Rank change year-on-year - - -23
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Test Lead 3 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.094% - 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.78%
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 2,993 3,403 3,576
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.47% 92.35% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,937 2,534 2,546
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £388 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £706 £713 £661
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 280 203
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.09 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.50 £51.25 £16.99
Median hourly rate £48.29 £65.00 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +43.81% +6.35%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.05
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £69.05
England median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%

Automation Test Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Automation Test Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Test Lead in the South West

Automation Test Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Test Lead in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Automation Test Lead in the South West

Automation Test Lead
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Test Lead within the South West region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
Bristol - 3 - -
Automation Test Lead
England

Automation Test Lead Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Automation Test Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region featuring Automation Test Lead in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Unix
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 2000
1 3 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 3 (100.00%) VMS
1 3 (100.00%) Juniper
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) VMware

Automation Test Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
1 3 (100.00%) VMS
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 2000
1 3 (100.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (100.00%) Juniper
2 2 (66.67%) VMware