Automation Tester Contract Job Trends in Uxbridge

Automation Tester
Hillingdon > Uxbridge

The median Automation Tester daily rate in Uxbridge is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Uxbridge 3.70% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hillingdon median daily rate £375 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Uxbridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Uxbridge. 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 Uxbridge with a recognized job title 27 7 19
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 87.50% 82.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 12
10th Percentile £306 £434 £193
25th Percentile £375 £444 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £423
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +12.43% +20.71%
75th Percentile £693 £550 £553
90th Percentile £716 £640 £600
Hillingdon median daily rate £438 £450 £288
% change year-on-year -2.78% +56.52% -39.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £14.97 - -
25th Percentile £16.44 - -
Median hourly rate £18.87 - -
75th Percentile £32.81 - -
90th Percentile £41.17 - -
Hillingdon median hourly rate £20.18 £100.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -79.82% +471.43% -61.11%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Uxbridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Automation Tester' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Uxbridge.

Automation Tester job vacancy trend in Uxbridge

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Uxbridge

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Automation Tester 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 Uxbridge region featuring Automation Tester 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%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver

Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Uxbridge 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%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA