Test Automation Contracts in Walsall

Automated Testing
West Midlands > Walsall

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Walsall 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 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Walsall 30.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £495 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +16.47% -15.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Walsall

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 Walsall.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6 4 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Walsall 60.00% 44.44% 53.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile - £243 £218
25th Percentile £350 £269 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £325 £465
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -30.11% +32.86%
75th Percentile £388 £356 £508
90th Percentile - £368 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Walsall

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Walsall

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Walsall

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Walsall

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Walsall 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Issue Tracking
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce