Test Automation Contracts in Wales

Automated Testing
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 48 22
Rank change year-on-year +22 -26 +9
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 21 15 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 5.11% 2.33% 7.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.40% 2.71% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 14 59
10th Percentile £350 £450 £365
25th Percentile £366 £463 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £560 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% +6.67% +23.53%
75th Percentile £543 £597 £575
90th Percentile £551 £673 £588
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 328 554 858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 79.81% 86.02% 83.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 425 623
10th Percentile £161 £180 £201
25th Percentile £325 £325 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £570 £565 £575
90th Percentile £663 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 30 35
10th Percentile £11.69 £14.13 £13.46
25th Percentile £14.57 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £21.49 £18.82 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.19% -24.74% +40.85%
75th Percentile £50.81 £25.00 £29.25
90th Percentile £86.18 £48.88 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.78% +44.00% -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Wales

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Wales

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Wales over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Wales

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Wales

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Wales region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales +25 21 £504 -12.30% 12
Test Automation
UK

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) GitHub
2 7 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (28.57%) Azure
4 4 (19.05%) AWS
5 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) GCP
6 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) MySQL
2 7 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (61.90%) Cypress.io
2 10 (47.62%) Postman
3 8 (38.10%) GitLab
4 5 (23.81%) Selenium
5 4 (19.05%) Cucumber
5 4 (19.05%) Storybook
6 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
7 2 (9.52%) JMeter
8 1 (4.76%) AppScan
8 1 (4.76%) Burp Suite
8 1 (4.76%) Git
8 1 (4.76%) JIRA
8 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
8 1 (4.76%) Subversion
General
1 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) PHP Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (23.81%) Full Stack PHP Developer
3 5 (23.81%) Test Automation Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (9.52%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Automation Tester
6 1 (4.76%) Full Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) GUI Tester
6 1 (4.76%) QA Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) QA Test Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Site Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Test Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (47.62%) Vue
2 8 (38.10%) Laravel
3 6 (28.57%) Playwright
3 6 (28.57%) React
4 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 14 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.76%) NHS
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 15 (71.43%) Project Management
3 12 (57.14%) Agile
3 12 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
5 6 (28.57%) Analytics
6 5 (23.81%) Front End Development
6 5 (23.81%) Software Engineering
7 4 (19.05%) BDD
7 4 (19.05%) Data Analytics
7 4 (19.05%) Manual Testing
7 4 (19.05%) Objectives and Key Results
7 4 (19.05%) Unit Testing
8 3 (14.29%) DevOps
8 3 (14.29%) Kanban
8 3 (14.29%) Regression Testing
8 3 (14.29%) Scrum
8 3 (14.29%) Test Strategy
9 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
9 2 (9.52%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) PHP
2 5 (23.81%) TypeScript
3 3 (14.29%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 2 (9.52%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) Bash
5 1 (4.76%) C#
5 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) ISEB
1 1 (4.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (71.43%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
1 1 (4.76%) Grafana
1 1 (4.76%) Graylog
1 1 (4.76%) HP Fortify
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.76%) Nagios
1 1 (4.76%) Nessus
1 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
1 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.76%) Puppet
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
1 1 (4.76%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Checkmarx
2 1 (4.76%) Splunk
2 1 (4.76%) Veracode