Test Automation Contracts in West Sussex

Automated Testing
South East > West Sussex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 26 43
Rank change year-on-year -2 +17 -15
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 11 20 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 4.23% 6.73% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 7.69% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 2
10th Percentile £306 £363 £504
25th Percentile £370 £431 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +0.96% +28.40%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £530
90th Percentile £583 £588 £536
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
Median hourly rate £38.50 - -
75th Percentile £40.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £38.50 £54.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -29.36% -0.91% +25.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

Test 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 West Sussex with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 237 260 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 91.15% 87.54% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 207 302
10th Percentile £305 £181 £164
25th Percentile £400 £271 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £467
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +2.89% +4.60%
75th Percentile £522 £588 £575
90th Percentile £588 £692 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 8
10th Percentile £13.63 £18.74 £15.43
25th Percentile £18.20 - £30.56
Median hourly rate £21.50 £22.16 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% -59.15% +27.65%
75th Percentile £22.25 £22.40 £59.06
90th Percentile £28.05 £24.19 £65.63
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.99
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.43% -20.05%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 - 3 £400 - 1
Chichester - 2 £193 -
Worthing -3 1 £600 +3.45%
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 2 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
1 5 (45.45%) GitHub
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (18.18%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (27.27%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (27.27%) Couchbase
2 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Git
2 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (27.27%) JIRA
3 3 (27.27%) JMeter
4 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
4 2 (18.18%) GitLab
4 2 (18.18%) Selenium
5 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
5 1 (9.09%) IntelliJ
5 1 (9.09%) JUnit
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Automotive
2 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Test Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 2 (18.18%) Full Stack Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Management Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Scrum Master
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Kafka
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (27.27%) Spring
1 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) .NET Core
2 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
2 2 (18.18%) Jest
2 2 (18.18%) React
2 2 (18.18%) Redux
2 2 (18.18%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) RESTful
3 1 (9.09%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) PKI
1 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) VMS
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Software Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Testing
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
4 3 (27.27%) Data Migration
4 3 (27.27%) ERP
4 3 (27.27%) Functional Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Integration Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Manual Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Security Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Test Management
4 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
5 2 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
5 2 (18.18%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Go
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) Kotlin
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) SAP
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 1 (9.09%) Splunk