Test Automation Contracts in Staines

Automated Testing
Surrey > Staines

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Staines requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 - 5
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 4 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staines 30.77% - 22.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 33.33% - 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £250
Median % change year-on-year - - +38.89%
75th Percentile - - £275
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median daily rate £500 £588 £500
% change year-on-year -14.89% +17.50% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staines

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 Staines.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12 18 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staines 92.31% 90.00% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 23
10th Percentile £247 £205 £174
25th Percentile £273 £500 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £625 £320
Median % change year-on-year -46.40% +95.31% -32.63%
75th Percentile £375 £712 £600
90th Percentile £407 £745 £833
Surrey median daily rate £470 £500 £514
% change year-on-year -6.00% -2.68% +2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £50.25 -
Surrey median hourly rate £26.33 £20.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +28.41% -54.44% +87.50%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Staines

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Staines

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staines

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Staines

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Staines

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Staines.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Staines

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staines 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) JMeter
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) QA Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) API Design
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
4 1 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) Software Quality Assurance