Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Automated Testing
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 19 30
Rank change year-on-year -20 +11 -4
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 13 39 45
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 3.38% 8.61% 6.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 9.80% 6.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 29 40
10th Percentile £362 £70 £375
25th Percentile £398 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +11.76% -19.05%
75th Percentile £491 £525 £551
90th Percentile £500 £528 £585
South East median daily rate £475 £513 £501
% change year-on-year -7.32% +2.30% +0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £57.50 £16.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +252.94% -
75th Percentile - £62.50 £17.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -17.31%

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 356 398 648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 92.47% 87.86% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 277 515
10th Percentile £203 £203 £195
25th Percentile £221 £265 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% -
75th Percentile £551 £538 £600
90th Percentile £675 £600 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 18 35
10th Percentile £24.00 £18.18 £19.20
25th Percentile £27.50 £24.18 £45.42
Median hourly rate £55.00 £41.50 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% -32.66% +36.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £71.42 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.02
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £57.52 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.00% +9.56% +20.03%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Surrey

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Test Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Surrey over the 6 months to 13 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Surrey

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Test Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Test Automation

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 13 November 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
Staines +4 3 £500 +257.14% 1
Guildford -5 3 £370 +428.57% 1
Woking - 3 £450 - 1
Camberley +1 2 - -
Leatherhead 0 1 £450 -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - -
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Tricentis Tosca
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Datadog
4 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
2 3 (23.08%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) Android Studio
3 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.69%) git-flow
3 1 (7.69%) Gradle
3 1 (7.69%) JMeter
3 1 (7.69%) Selenium
3 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
3 1 (7.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
1 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Developer
1 3 (23.08%) QA Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Ada Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Ada Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) QA Leader
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Android Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) QA Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Developer
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (15.38%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.69%) Flask
3 1 (7.69%) gRPC
3 1 (7.69%) JSON
3 1 (7.69%) Next.js
3 1 (7.69%) NgRx
3 1 (7.69%) Quarkus
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) Redux
3 1 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Batch
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.69%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) QA Automation
4 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (23.08%) Data Management
5 3 (23.08%) Data Privacy
5 3 (23.08%) Data Strategy
5 3 (23.08%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (23.08%) ERP
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Software Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Test Planning
5 3 (23.08%) User Experience
5 3 (23.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (23.08%) Validation
6 2 (15.38%) Component Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Scrum
6 2 (15.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) PL/SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Ada
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) OCA
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) QA
2 3 (23.08%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat