Test Automation Contracts in West Sussex

Automated Testing
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 18 29 22
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 +25
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 9 10 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 6.16% 3.83% 6.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.09% 4.20% 7.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 15
10th Percentile £379 £290 £363
25th Percentile £463 £365 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -23.81% +0.96%
75th Percentile £738 £575 £583
90th Percentile - £585 £588
South East median daily rate £513 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -6.82% -3.51% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £38.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year +47.40% -27.36% -3.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 127 238 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 86.99% 91.19% 87.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 174 200
10th Percentile £217 £304 £181
25th Percentile £350 £403 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% +4.84%
75th Percentile £538 £523 £600
90th Percentile £632 £588 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 8
10th Percentile £15.39 £13.63 £18.74
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.20 -
Median hourly rate £18.82 £21.50 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year -12.47% -2.98% -59.15%
75th Percentile £36.25 £22.25 £22.40
90th Percentile £81.15 £28.05 £24.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in West Sussex

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in West Sussex

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in West Sussex over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in West Sussex

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in West Sussex

Test 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 Test Automation within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Crawley - 5 £725 - 15
Worthing +13 3 £468 -22.00%
Burgess Hill 0 1 £350 -7.28% 1
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 (11.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Big Data
2 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
2 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) Metadata
2 2 (22.22%) NewSQL
2 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) Postman
2 2 (22.22%) SoapUI
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) Toad
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Billing
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Systems Test Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Data Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Platform Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Test Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Playwright
2 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) gRPC
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) IoT
2 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 2 (22.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Validation
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) BDD
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Component Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 3 (33.33%) Data-Driven Testing
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Test Management
4 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
5 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
5 2 (22.22%) Data Validation
5 2 (22.22%) ETRM
5 2 (22.22%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) Scala
3 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 1 (11.11%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) ISEB
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
3 1 (11.11%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) webMethods