QA Automation Contract Job Trends in Stevenage

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stevenage requiring QA Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Stevenage 0.28% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate - £450 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Stevenage

QA 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 Stevenage.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 180 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage 80.28% 89.11% 85.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 47 36
10th Percentile £334 £324 £80
25th Percentile £425 £500 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year -12.95% +37.50% -13.75%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £556
90th Percentile £655 £700 £625
Hertfordshire median daily rate £500 £530 £400
% change year-on-year -5.66% +32.50% -25.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 92 235
10th Percentile £32.00 £36.91 £38.12
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £81.01 £70.00
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £62.50 £54.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +15.74% +8.00% -23.08%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

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

QA Automation job vacancy trend in Stevenage

QA Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) eggPlant
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Product Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes