QA Automation Contract Job Trends in Welwyn Garden City

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
Hertfordshire > Welwyn Garden City

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Welwyn Garden City requiring QA Automation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Welwyn Garden City 3.45% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Welwyn Garden City

QA 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 Welwyn Garden City.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28 28 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Welwyn Garden City 96.55% 100.00% 91.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 14
10th Percentile £450 £240 £487
25th Percentile £488 £251 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £375 £638
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -41.18% +15.91%
75th Percentile £688 £419 £825
90th Percentile £750 £485 £838
Hertfordshire median daily rate £528 £413 £545
% change year-on-year +28.00% -24.31% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 2
10th Percentile £16.40 £15.51 £62.13
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.52 £63.44
Median hourly rate £18.82 £16.75 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.39% -74.72% +20.45%
75th Percentile £21.92 £19.29 £68.44
90th Percentile £22.18 £20.42 £69.38
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% -23.08% +16.07%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Welwyn Garden City

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Welwyn Garden City.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in Welwyn Garden City

QA Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Welwyn Garden City 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA