Test Automation Contracts in Surrey

Automated Testing
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 15 40
Rank change year-on-year -10 +25 0
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 14 52 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 5.00% 8.21% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.43% 9.96% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 43 25
10th Percentile £425 £280 £263
25th Percentile £438 £389 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £519 £638 £588
90th Percentile £525 £688 £653
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +17.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £57.50 £16.50
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year - +252.94% -
75th Percentile - £62.50 £17.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 258 522 654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 92.14% 82.46% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 381 516
10th Percentile £200 £213 £206
25th Percentile £313 £350 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -11.90% +2.44%
75th Percentile £546 £588 £638
90th Percentile £597 £688 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 64 30
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.71 £18.23
25th Percentile £24.00 £15.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £61.90
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £63.88
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £49.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -51.02% -2.00% +122.22%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Surrey

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Surrey

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Surrey

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 4 July 2025. 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
Reigate +12 6 £475 -9.52% 10
Redhill 0 3 £500 +11.11% 1
Camberley -5 2 - - 1
Staines +4 1 - - 4
Guildford -1 1 £410 +485.71% 23
Leatherhead -5 1 £450 -33.33% 1
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Stack
3 2 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Git
2 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 4 (28.57%) JIRA
3 3 (21.43%) Bitbucket
3 3 (21.43%) GoogleTest
3 3 (21.43%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (21.43%) TestRail
4 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
4 2 (14.29%) JMeter
4 2 (14.29%) Moq
4 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio
4 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (7.14%) git-flow
5 1 (7.14%) Selenium
5 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (7.14%) Finance
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Senior
2 5 (35.71%) Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) C++ Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Embedded C++ Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Embedded Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Embedded Linux Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Embedded Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Ada Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Ada Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Pensions Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) JSON
1 3 (21.43%) RESTful
2 2 (14.29%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) .NET Core
2 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 2 (14.29%) CSS
2 2 (14.29%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) XML
2 2 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Embedded Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 6 (42.86%) Scrum
4 5 (35.71%) Design Patterns
4 5 (35.71%) OO
4 5 (35.71%) SOLID
5 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 4 (28.57%) DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (28.57%) User Experience
6 3 (21.43%) Clean Code
6 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (21.43%) Kanban
6 3 (21.43%) Multithreaded Programming
6 3 (21.43%) Multithreading
6 3 (21.43%) OOD
6 3 (21.43%) Storyboarding
6 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
7 2 (14.29%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) C#
2 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 3 (21.43%) C++
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
4 2 (14.29%) Ada
4 2 (14.29%) Python
5 1 (7.14%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 2 (14.29%) GMP
2 2 (14.29%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Google
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft