Test Automation Contracts in Swindon

Automated Testing
Wiltshire > Swindon

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Swindon with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 21 12
Rank change year-on-year +3 -9 +5
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 4 12 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swindon 3.20% 5.06% 9.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 5.80% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 23
10th Percentile £392 £489 £463
25th Percentile £418 £513 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.00% +19.69%
75th Percentile £511 £588 £507
90th Percentile £527 £665 £537
Wiltshire median daily rate £529 £525 £485
% change year-on-year +0.71% +8.25% +7.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Swindon

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Swindon with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 95 207 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 76.00% 87.34% 92.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 163 205
10th Percentile £141 £365 £308
25th Percentile £263 £454 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.00% +9.29%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £588
90th Percentile £641 £694 £650
Wiltshire median daily rate £545 £575 £515
% change year-on-year -5.22% +11.63% +3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 3
10th Percentile £12.00 - £15.18
25th Percentile £13.18 - £15.44
Median hourly rate £16.50 £63.00 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year -73.81% +265.22% -31.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £26.19
90th Percentile £30.25 - £30.73
Wiltshire median hourly rate £14.54 £70.80 £59.25
% change year-on-year -79.46% +19.49% +18.50%

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) LabVIEW
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Automotive
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) API Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) System Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Management
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript