Test Automation Contracts in Gloucestershire

Automated Testing
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 30 42
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 -2
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 8 31 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 1.81% 7.18% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 7.75% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 21 14
10th Percentile £428 £440 £421
25th Percentile £525 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £630 £709 £556
90th Percentile - £873 £591
South West median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% -
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
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 376 400 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 84.88% 92.59% 87.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 249 355
10th Percentile £363 £313 £202
25th Percentile £461 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +6.34% +7.89%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £613
90th Percentile £725 £728 £680
South West median daily rate £525 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +5.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 44 15
10th Percentile £14.30 £35.00 £11.85
25th Percentile £21.00 £50.50 £12.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.50 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year -47.02% +133.02% -35.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £83.31 £40.46
90th Percentile £73.30 £83.40 £53.00
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.38
% change year-on-year -8.33% +24.03% +7.50%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Gloucestershire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Gloucestershire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Gloucestershire

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Gloucestershire

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Cheltenham -10 8 £550 -15.38% 7
Test Automation
South West

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Big Data
1 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Cypress.io
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) JMeter
2 1 (12.50%) Robot Framework
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) QA Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
3 2 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Black-Box Testing
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 2 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Situational Awareness
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) Bash
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) C#
4 2 (25.00%) Perl
5 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
1 2 (25.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk
1 1 (12.50%) VMware