Test Automation Contracts in Bristol

Automated Testing
South West > Bristol

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 55 46
Rank change year-on-year +8 -9 0
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 32 36 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 2.99% 3.13% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 3.54% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 30 40
10th Percentile £413 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £438 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £569
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +33.82%
75th Percentile £590 £638 £628
90th Percentile - £679 £653
South West median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.98
25th Percentile £52.50 - £50.69
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £51.88
75th Percentile £85.00 - £53.06
90th Percentile - - £53.78
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £78.00 £52.00
% change year-on-year -29.49% +50.00% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 870 1,016 1,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 81.38% 88.35% 87.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 695 856
10th Percentile £250 £300 £321
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £720 £656
South West median daily rate £525 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +5.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 202 114
10th Percentile £39.63 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £9.80 £15.90
Median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% +27.78% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £79.53 £65.75
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £47.64
% change year-on-year -8.33% +25.96% +5.86%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Bristol

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Bristol

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Bristol over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Bristol

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Bristol

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Automation in Bristol over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Automation in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (3.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Simulink
1 5 (15.63%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) Azure
2 9 (28.13%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.13%) AWS
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Fabric
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) HTTP
2 3 (9.38%) Firewall
3 2 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.13%) 5G
4 1 (3.13%) DHCP
4 1 (3.13%) DNS
4 1 (3.13%) LTE
4 1 (3.13%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (15.63%) SQLite
2 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.13%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 11 (34.38%) Git
2 6 (18.75%) Postman
3 5 (15.63%) Checkstyle
3 5 (15.63%) JIRA
3 5 (15.63%) NUnit
3 5 (15.63%) SonarQube
3 5 (15.63%) Visual Studio
4 3 (9.38%) Cypress.io
4 3 (9.38%) Maven
4 3 (9.38%) Selenium
5 1 (3.13%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (3.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (18.75%) Automotive
2 5 (15.63%) Legal
3 3 (9.38%) Electronics
3 3 (9.38%) Manufacturing
3 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Finance
4 2 (6.25%) Marketing
4 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.13%) Law
5 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Software Engineer
2 9 (28.13%) Test Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Test Automation Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Senior
5 5 (15.63%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Lead
7 3 (9.38%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (9.38%) Java Developer
7 3 (9.38%) Test Leader
8 2 (6.25%) .NET Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Test Manager
8 2 (6.25%) Salesforce Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Test Automation Manager
8 2 (6.25%) Test Manager
9 1 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (37.50%) .NET
2 8 (25.00%) REST
3 7 (21.88%) AngularJS
4 5 (15.63%) .NET Core
4 5 (15.63%) .NET Framework
4 5 (15.63%) GraphQL
4 5 (15.63%) JSON
4 5 (15.63%) Playwright
4 5 (15.63%) XML
5 3 (9.38%) GWT
5 3 (9.38%) JAX-RS
5 3 (9.38%) Restlet
5 3 (9.38%) SAML
5 3 (9.38%) Spring
5 3 (9.38%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.13%) Django
6 1 (3.13%) Flask
6 1 (3.13%) Node.js
6 1 (3.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.38%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) STB
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Unix
1 3 (9.38%) VMS
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
1 3 (9.38%) Windows 2000
1 3 (9.38%) Windows XP
2 1 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Agile
1 15 (46.88%) DevOps
2 10 (31.25%) Software Engineering
2 10 (31.25%) TDD
3 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
3 7 (21.88%) Design Patterns
3 7 (21.88%) Manual Testing
3 7 (21.88%) OO
4 6 (18.75%) BDD
4 6 (18.75%) Computer Science
4 6 (18.75%) Customer Requirements
4 6 (18.75%) Non-Functional Testing
4 6 (18.75%) Scrum
5 5 (15.63%) Kanban
5 5 (15.63%) Load Testing
5 5 (15.63%) Performance Testing
5 5 (15.63%) Security Testing
5 5 (15.63%) Test Strategy
5 5 (15.63%) Validation
5 5 (15.63%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) C#
2 7 (21.88%) SQL
3 5 (15.63%) MATLAB
3 5 (15.63%) TypeScript
4 4 (12.50%) Java
4 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.38%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.13%) C++
6 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) DV Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) Degree
4 2 (6.25%) HND
5 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Terraform
2 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.38%) Ansible
3 3 (9.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) Google
3 3 (9.38%) Fortinet
3 3 (9.38%) Juniper
4 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.25%) SAP
4 2 (6.25%) VMware