Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Automated Testing
Berkshire > Wokingham

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 23 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 4 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wokingham 2.22% 3.26% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 3.70% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £155 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £160 £575
Median % change year-on-year +118.75% -72.17% -
75th Percentile - £168 £588
90th Percentile - £169 -
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £613 £563
% change year-on-year -16.29% +8.89% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 166 81 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 92.22% 88.04% 97.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 62 43
10th Percentile £342 £314 £317
25th Percentile £396 £350 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £482 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.64% -12.36% +15.79%
75th Percentile £523 £575 £638
90th Percentile £625 £611 £863
Berkshire median daily rate £514 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.59% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £14.00 - -
75th Percentile £14.15 - -
90th Percentile £14.24 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.18 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -47.76% +2.67% +97.08%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Wokingham

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wokingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (50.00%) NUnit
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Collection
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (50.00%) Optimization Problems
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (25.00%) API Testing
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA