Test Automation Contracts in Worthing

Automated Testing
West Sussex > Worthing

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worthing 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 11 24 16
Rank change year-on-year +13 -8 +21
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 3 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worthing 6.38% 1.04% 10.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.32% 1.08% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £402 - £557
25th Percentile £427 - £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £469 - £582
90th Percentile £470 - £584
West Sussex median daily rate £475 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +18.75% -23.81% +0.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Worthing

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 Worthing.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 41 93 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worthing 87.23% 96.88% 96.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 79 53
10th Percentile £381 £400 £414
25th Percentile £468 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £450 £586
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -23.21% +9.74%
75th Percentile £575 £504 £675
90th Percentile £631 £590 £678
West Sussex median daily rate £463 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% +4.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Median hourly rate £13.85 £17.39 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.35% - -
West Sussex median hourly rate £18.82 £21.50 £22.16
% change year-on-year -12.47% -2.98% -59.15%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Worthing

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Worthing

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Worthing

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Worthing

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Worthing

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Worthing

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worthing 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 (33.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata
1 2 (66.67%) NewSQL
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Toad
General
1 2 (66.67%) Billing
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Data Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Data Reconciliation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) ETRM
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (33.33%) webMethods