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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 10 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Telford 8.13% - 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.40% - 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £336 - -
25th Percentile £402 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.21%
75th Percentile £505 - £525
90th Percentile £628 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £460 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +19.05%

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 119 77 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 96.75% 63.64% 90.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 49 49
10th Percentile £309 £267 £320
25th Percentile £399 £350 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £370 £540
Median % change year-on-year +24.66% -31.48% +8.00%
75th Percentile £527 £503 £573
90th Percentile £541 £523 £595
Shropshire median daily rate £460 £358 £540
% change year-on-year +28.49% -33.70% +7.46%
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 - £10.42 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -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 31 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 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (10.00%) SAS
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%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) ClearCase
3 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) JBehave
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%) Analytical 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)
2 2 (20.00%) Quality Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Tester
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Software Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
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
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
1 2 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Software Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (20.00%) Application Security
5 2 (20.00%) BDD
5 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
5 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (10.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) 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