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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 21 12
Rank change year-on-year +6 -9 +1
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 5 10 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swindon 4.20% 4.46% 8.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.62% 5.21% 9.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 20
10th Percentile - £482 £463
25th Percentile £375 £504 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £493
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +6.60% +12.89%
75th Percentile £453 £596 £506
90th Percentile £504 £683 £538
Wiltshire median daily rate £525 £500 £485
% change year-on-year +5.00% +3.09% +2.11%

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 89 192 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 74.79% 85.71% 91.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 152 199
10th Percentile £143 £329 £290
25th Percentile £283 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £594
90th Percentile £623 £694 £652
Wiltshire median daily rate £539 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -6.26% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.18
25th Percentile £12.00 - £15.44
Median hourly rate £16.50 - £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.00%
75th Percentile £30.25 - £26.19
90th Percentile - - £30.73
Wiltshire median hourly rate £15.52 £68.15 £59.25
% change year-on-year -77.23% +15.02% +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 (20.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) LabVIEW
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (60.00%) Aerospace
1 3 (60.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (60.00%) System Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C++
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL