Test Automation Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Automated Testing
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 19 40
Rank change year-on-year -9 +21 0
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 4 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.85% 5.38% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 6.25% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £282 £348 £484
25th Percentile £285 £400 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year -35.56% -21.74% +1.19%
75th Percentile £318 £580 £588
90th Percentile £334 £622 -
South East median daily rate £492 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.91% +10.00%

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 177 112 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 81.94% 86.15% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 80 207
10th Percentile £170 £199 £235
25th Percentile £215 £372 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £555 £591 £588
90th Percentile £703 £638 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £512 £525
% change year-on-year -2.31% -2.51% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 5
10th Percentile £12.63 - £16.30
25th Percentile £15.00 £27.00 £22.38
Median hourly rate £16.00 £28.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -41.67% +136.74%
75th Percentile £20.69 £29.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.04
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.40% +10.80% +47.89%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

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

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Test Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Test Automation

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 23 October 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
Burgess Hill -5 4 £290 -20.00% 1
Test Automation
South East

Test 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (25.00%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) gRPC
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) RAD
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Kanban
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian