Senior Test Automation Engineer Contracts in the South West

Senior Automation Test Engineer
England > South West

The median Senior Automation Test Engineer daily rate in the South West is £590 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 170 -
Rank change year-on-year +24 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Automation Engineer 4 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.12% 0.14% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile £583 - -
25th Percentile £588 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -
75th Percentile £593 £609 -
90th Percentile £597 £624 -
England median daily rate £478 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.18% - +42.86%

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 3,002 3,405 3,579
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 92.33% 95.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,949 2,544 2,545
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £706 £713 £662
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 379 282 197
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.13 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.50 £51.25 £16.80
Median hourly rate £48.29 £65.00 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +43.81% +6.35%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.69 £62.50
90th Percentile £77.60 £83.75 £69.05
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Senior Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Automation Engineer in the South West

Senior Test Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Automation Engineer in the South West

Senior Test Automation Engineer
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 Senior Test Automation Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 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 +13 3 £590 +7.27% 1
Somerset +2 1 £600 -3.61% 1
Senior Test Automation Engineer
England

Senior Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Senior Test Automation Engineer 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 Senior Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) NUnit
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Kanban
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 4 (100.00%) BDD
1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 4 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 4 (100.00%) Postman
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Playwright
2 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (75.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Task Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Load Testing

Senior Test Automation Engineer 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) NUnit
1 4 (100.00%) Postman
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (75.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (75.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) BDD
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Kanban
1 4 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 4 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (75.00%) Load Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) SAP