Test Automation Contracts in Swindon

Automated Testing
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Swindon 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 19 17 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -13
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 2 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swindon 2.04% 3.25% 4.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 4.35% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £473 - £482
25th Percentile £488 £375 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £563 £481 £596
90th Percentile £578 £515 £683
Wiltshire median daily rate £575 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +3.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89 92 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 90.82% 74.80% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 47 160
10th Percentile £311 £139 £359
25th Percentile £413 £263 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -11.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £605
90th Percentile £650 £623 £696
Wiltshire median daily rate £563 £545 £575
% change year-on-year +3.21% -5.22% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £16.50 -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £18.87 £14.54 £68.15
% change year-on-year +29.78% -78.66% +15.02%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Swindon

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Swindon

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Swindon

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript