Test Automation Contracts in Taunton

Automated Testing
Somerset > Taunton

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Taunton 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 1 13 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Taunton 3.57% 21.31% 24.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 21.67% 27.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 11
10th Percentile - £564 £411
25th Percentile - £596 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £490
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +27.55% +3.70%
75th Percentile - £700 £553
90th Percentile - £843 £575
Somerset median daily rate £600 £580 £463
% change year-on-year +3.54% +25.30% -2.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27 60 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 96.43% 98.36% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 54 36
10th Percentile £563 £430 £356
25th Percentile £573 £565 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £522
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +24.64% +9.79%
75th Percentile £606 £700 £608
90th Percentile £624 £811 £683
Somerset median daily rate £500 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile - £15.60 -
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.84 -
Median hourly rate £13.00 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% - -
75th Percentile £14.25 £19.13 -
90th Percentile £15.60 £19.35 -
Somerset median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -50.00% +0.50% +20.13%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Taunton

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Taunton

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Taunton 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript