Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Swansea

Automated Testing
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swansea 1.89% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
West Wales median daily rate £375 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38 11 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea 71.70% 39.29% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 11 4
10th Percentile £363 - £230
25th Percentile £375 £185 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -2.56% +124.14%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £506
90th Percentile £518 £588 £518
West Wales median daily rate £465 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -2.11% -2.56% +124.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.75
Median hourly rate - - £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.42%
75th Percentile - - £15.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median hourly rate £15.91 - £13.50
% change year-on-year - - -12.42%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Swansea

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Swansea

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

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

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform