Test Automation Contracts in Wiltshire

Automated Testing
South West > Wiltshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 58 31
Rank change year-on-year -23 -27 +2
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 9 32 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.95% 2.89% 5.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 3.14% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 24 39
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £440 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +6.77% +1.05%
75th Percentile £549 £591 £503
90th Percentile £640 £675 £531
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 788 1,019 841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 82.77% 92.05% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 855 597
10th Percentile £315 £400 £350
25th Percentile £463 £467 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +11.63% +3.02%
75th Percentile £675 £669 £613
90th Percentile £725 £725 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 24
10th Percentile £12.00 - £15.26
25th Percentile £14.41 £62.75 £29.75
Median hourly rate £14.54 £70.80 £59.25
Median % change year-on-year -79.46% +19.49% +18.50%
75th Percentile £27.00 £77.50 £69.05
90th Percentile £43.38 £86.00 £73.50
South West median hourly rate £47.83 £61.50 £48.38
% change year-on-year -22.23% +27.13% +7.50%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Wiltshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Wiltshire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Wiltshire

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Wiltshire

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Swindon +8 5 £436 -16.90% 2
Corsham -19 2 £666 +33.25%
Malmesbury -1 1 £550 +15.79%
Test Automation
South West

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
1 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Hive
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 1 (11.11%) Metadata
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) LabVIEW
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (22.22%) Aerospace
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Automotive
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Test Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Architect
3 1 (11.11%) QA Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (11.11%) Playwright
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
1 1 (11.11%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
2 3 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
3 2 (22.22%) System Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) NsoIT
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (11.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) C++
3 2 (22.22%) C
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) JTAG
2 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kibana
1 1 (11.11%) OPNET
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
1 1 (11.11%) Cloudera
1 1 (11.11%) Databricks
1 1 (11.11%) VMware