Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Witham

Automated Testing
Essex > Witham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Witham requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Witham 11.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £465 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 - -
75th Percentile £495 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median daily rate £465 £400 -
% change year-on-year +16.25% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Witham

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 Witham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Witham 88.89% 77.78% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 0
10th Percentile £335 £334 -
25th Percentile £388 £395 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £460 -
75th Percentile £469 £483 -
90th Percentile £499 £503 -
Essex median daily rate £484 £455 £350
% change year-on-year +6.32% +30.00% -30.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Witham

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Witham

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Witham 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 1 (100.00%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) Spatial Data
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ESRI