QA Automation Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring QA Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.50% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £268 - -
25th Percentile £273 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £283 - -
75th Percentile £290 - -
90th Percentile £293 - -
South East median daily rate £275 - £413
% change year-on-year - - +3.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 338 158 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 84.71% 84.95% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 108 128
10th Percentile £216 £170 £213
25th Percentile £312 £271 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £455
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -12.09% -7.14%
75th Percentile £500 £528 £550
90th Percentile £629 £675 £625
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 26 5
10th Percentile £13.13 - £24.45
25th Percentile £19.25 £15.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £18.82 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.06% -32.79% +14.47%
75th Percentile £35.19 £20.69 £29.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £35.75
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £21.99 £56.89
% change year-on-year +150.17% -61.35% +13.77%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QA Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

QA Automation job vacancy trend in West Sussex

QA Automation
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing QA Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing QA Automation

QA Automation
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 31 July 2026. 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
Burgess Hill - 2 £283 - 1
QA Automation
South East

QA Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Gen AI Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) pytest
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Data-Driven Testing
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft