QA Automation Engineer Contract Job Trends in Telford

Automation QA Engineer
Shropshire > Telford

The median Automation QA Engineer daily rate in Telford is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 0.20% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £300 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Telford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Telford. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Telford with a recognized job title 472 106 64
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.65% 90.60% 81.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 73 40
10th Percentile £363 £313 £368
25th Percentile £412 £434 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £477 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% -10.84% -0.93%
75th Percentile £524 £515 £536
90th Percentile £563 £541 £538
Shropshire median daily rate £469 £463 £511
% change year-on-year +1.41% -9.54% -4.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile £23.59 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -72.73%
75th Percentile £45.20 - -
90th Percentile £65.25 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £15.00
% change year-on-year +106.49% -18.80% -59.11%

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford

For the 6 months to 11 March 2026, QA Automation Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Telford region featuring QA Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) TestRail
1 1 (100.00%) Validation

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
QA Automation Engineer jobs