Test Automation Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Automated Testing
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 27 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +14
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 15 22 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 3.95% 4.40% 7.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.78% 4.86% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 31
10th Percentile £387 £306 £350
25th Percentile £400 £375 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -5.26% +26.67%
75th Percentile £544 £525 £525
90th Percentile £615 £648 £588
East of England median daily rate £400 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -15.79% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 8
10th Percentile - - £26.21
25th Percentile £51.25 £47.50 £33.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +12.36% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £57.50 £90.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -36.11% +94.88% -2.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 314 453 619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 82.63% 90.60% 87.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 172 329
10th Percentile £275 £219 £205
25th Percentile £340 £372 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.51%
75th Percentile £562 £561 £600
90th Percentile £624 £636 £675
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 195 186
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.41 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.62 £14.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.23 £14.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.93% -6.45% +14.81%
75th Percentile £17.13 £19.56 £22.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £21.78 £36.25
East of England median hourly rate £27.50 £20.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +37.50% -4.76% +55.56%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Cambridgeshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Cambridgeshire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Cambridgeshire

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Cambridgeshire

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Cambridge +5 14 £500 +8.11% 10
Test Automation
East of England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (33.33%) Electronics
2 4 (26.67%) Wearables
3 2 (13.33%) Games
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Design Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Digital Design Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Digital IC Design Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Digital IC Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) IC Design Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Python Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Research Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Scrum Master
2 2 (13.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Test Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Research Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) pytest
1 3 (20.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (6.67%) Google JAX
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Augmented Reality
1 4 (26.67%) Smartphone
1 4 (26.67%) Verilog
1 4 (26.67%) Virtual Reality
2 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) ASIC
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Android
2 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 5 (33.33%) Electronic Design Automation
3 5 (33.33%) IC Design
3 5 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 4 (26.67%) Validation
5 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (20.00%) Generative AI
5 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (20.00%) Open Source
5 3 (20.00%) Test Scripting
6 2 (13.33%) ATDD
6 2 (13.33%) Conflict Resolution
6 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
6 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
6 2 (13.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (13.33%) Situational Awareness
6 2 (13.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) Bash
2 4 (26.67%) SystemVerilog
2 4 (26.67%) Tcl
3 1 (6.67%) Go
3 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) PhD
3 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) JTAG
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (26.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Siemens
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Atlassian