Test Automation Contracts in Oxfordshire

Automated Testing
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 13 25 29
Rank change year-on-year +12 +4 -15
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 5 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 3.60% 1.44% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 1.65% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile £314 £466 £420
25th Percentile £401 £472 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £504
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -3.22% +0.74%
75th Percentile £500 £497 £553
90th Percentile - £499 £623
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £482
% change year-on-year -0.20% +3.86% +1.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 109 182 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 78.42% 87.08% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 133 221
10th Percentile £210 £180 £185
25th Percentile £366 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £594
90th Percentile £638 £672 £680
South East median daily rate £511 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 13
10th Percentile £14.91 £25.05 £14.56
25th Percentile £19.79 £25.95 £15.80
Median hourly rate £25.50 £32.32 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.12% +61.60% +5.43%
75th Percentile £37.50 £50.00 £24.42
90th Percentile £55.50 - £33.54
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £52.30 £37.13
% change year-on-year +11.47% +40.86% +35.02%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Oxfordshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Oxfordshire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Oxfordshire

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Oxfordshire

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire 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
Abingdon +2 3 £500 - 3
Oxford - 2 £355 -
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Subversion
2 1 (20.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (20.00%) Back Office
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Functional Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Junior
2 1 (20.00%) Junior Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ADO
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Security
1 3 (60.00%) Disk Encryption
1 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Load Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Test Management
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Firmware
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) NVIDIA