Test Automation Contracts in Wiltshire

Automated Testing
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 48 82 60
Rank change year-on-year +34 -22 -30
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 9 7 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 2.00% 0.74% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 0.90% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 25
10th Percentile £488 £375 £413
25th Percentile £525 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £695 £546 £575
90th Percentile £713 £549 £643
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 404 778 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 89.98% 82.42% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 569 855
10th Percentile £311 £315 £400
25th Percentile £478 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -5.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 14
10th Percentile £18.58 £12.00 £60.45
25th Percentile £18.69 - £62.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £14.54 £68.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.78% -78.66% +15.02%
75th Percentile £39.44 £30.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.77 £47.75 £85.25
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Corsham +36 6 £630 +18.31%
Swindon -2 2 £525 +31.25% 15
Chippenham - 1 - - 1
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 4 (44.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) iSCSI
1 2 (22.22%) SAN
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Administrator
1 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Test Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Flash
2 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Clustering
1 2 (22.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) VMS
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) NsoIT
2 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 3 (33.33%) Scorecard
2 3 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
2 3 (33.33%) System Testing
2 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 2 (22.22%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (22.22%) Defect Management
3 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Integration Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Power Management
3 2 (22.22%) Server Management
3 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) CCNA
3 2 (22.22%) CCNP
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
3 2 (22.22%) MCSA
3 2 (22.22%) MCSE
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (22.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) SCOM
1 2 (22.22%) vCenter Server
2 1 (11.11%) OPNET
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Foundry
1 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) VMware