Test Automation Contracts in Warwickshire

Automated Testing
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Warwickshire 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 17 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 30 41
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 -4
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 7 15 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warwickshire 2.08% 3.91% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 4.34% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 9
10th Percentile - £466 £530
25th Percentile £513 £479 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £644 - £788
90th Percentile £708 £646 -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £500 £432
% change year-on-year -15.00% +15.74% +12.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.00
Median hourly rate - - £39.00
75th Percentile - - £41.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £55.00 - £39.00
% change year-on-year - - -13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 307 346 486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 91.10% 90.10% 91.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 216 404
10th Percentile £315 £325 £275
25th Percentile £438 £460 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.91% +2.38% +23.53%
75th Percentile £700 £630 £600
90th Percentile £850 £738 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 3 16
10th Percentile £13.16 £14.39 £12.00
25th Percentile £13.75 £14.43 £15.75
Median hourly rate £22.50 £14.50 £18.64
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% -22.21% +22.23%
75th Percentile £26.96 £19.13 £20.13
90th Percentile £35.25 £21.90 £23.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.50
% change year-on-year +26.98% +7.39% -8.33%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Warwickshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Warwickshire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Warwickshire

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Warwickshire

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Warwick +1 6 £525 +5.00% 1
Test Automation
West Midlands

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Warwickshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Maven
2 2 (28.57%) REST Assured
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) TestNG
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Process Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Security Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (28.57%) BDD
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (28.57%) ITSM
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Programme Management
3 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (28.57%) SDET
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce