Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Uxbridge

Automated Testing
Hillingdon > Uxbridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Uxbridge requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Uxbridge 9.09% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hillingdon median daily rate £375 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Uxbridge

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 Uxbridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32 10 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Uxbridge 96.97% 90.91% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 17
10th Percentile £363 £354 £197
25th Percentile £450 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 £427 £525
Median % change year-on-year +61.59% -18.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £716 £450 £600
90th Percentile £721 £600 £627
Hillingdon median daily rate £463 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +2.78% -3.23% -13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £30.16
75th Percentile - - £38.33
90th Percentile - - £43.23
Hillingdon median hourly rate £20.18 £19.20 £17.50
% change year-on-year +5.10% +9.71% -61.11%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Uxbridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Uxbridge.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Uxbridge

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Uxbridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Uxbridge citing Test Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Uxbridge citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Uxbridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Uxbridge citing Test Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Uxbridge citing Test Automation

Test Automation
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Dagster
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
1 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) MLflow
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) NumPy
2 1 (33.33%) Pandas
2 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
2 1 (33.33%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Operations Research
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft