Test Automation Contracts in Telford

Automated Testing
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Telford 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 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - -20
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 10 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Telford 9.26% - 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.52% - 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile £372 - £410
25th Percentile £413 - £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £423
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £507 - £436
90th Percentile £628 - £437
Shropshire median daily rate £463 - £423
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 105 73 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 97.22% 62.39% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 45 119
10th Percentile £315 £341 £412
25th Percentile £448 £358 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £400 £540
Median % change year-on-year +23.50% -25.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £537 £500 £545
90th Percentile £541 £520 £595
Shropshire median daily rate £484 £378 £538
% change year-on-year +28.04% -29.74% +6.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £10.42 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -81.05% -
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - £11.85 -
Shropshire median hourly rate £12.18 £10.42 £55.00
% change year-on-year +16.89% -81.05% +214.29%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Telford

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Telford

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Telford over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Telford

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Telford 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 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) SAS
1 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) IDMS
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (10.00%) CA Gen
3 1 (10.00%) JBehave
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (10.00%) Toad
3 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Leader
3 1 (10.00%) QA Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) CSS
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) Next.js
1 2 (20.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) BDD
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) Pair Programming
4 3 (30.00%) Software Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Application Security
5 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) Defect Management
5 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) TDD
5 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) COBOL
4 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) ISEB
2 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (10.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle
1 1 (10.00%) QAD
1 1 (10.00%) SAP
1 1 (10.00%) webMethods