QA Automation Contracts in Watford

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
Hertfordshire > Watford

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Watford with a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Watford 0.85% - 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% - 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £725
75th Percentile - - £738
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate - - £725

All Process and Methodology Skills
Watford

QA 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 Watford with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 110 119 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 94.02% 80.41% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 85 106
10th Percentile £293 £200 £238
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £495
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +21.21% +16.47%
75th Percentile £606 £788 £625
90th Percentile £740 £928 £638
Hertfordshire median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 5
10th Percentile £13.58 - £26.50
25th Percentile £13.69 £21.00 £32.50
Median hourly rate £14.75 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.95% -37.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £16.06 £34.35 £37.50
90th Percentile £16.33 £38.64 £44.40
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.93
% change year-on-year -23.08% +22.82% +17.61%

QA Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) ETL Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA