Test Automation Contracts in West Sussex

Automated Testing
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 19 42 39
Rank change year-on-year +23 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 7 1 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 5.56% 0.36% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.48% 0.38% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 11
10th Percentile £348 - £305
25th Percentile £400 - £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £572
Median % change year-on-year - -21.26% +15.45%
75th Percentile £580 - £586
90th Percentile £622 - £588
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £482
% change year-on-year -0.20% +3.86% +1.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 108 264 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 85.71% 96.35% 92.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 201 264
10th Percentile £198 £213 £222
25th Percentile £378 £374 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £506
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -2.62% +6.58%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £680 £638
South East median daily rate £511 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 4
10th Percentile - £18.92 £11.81
25th Percentile £27.00 £28.92 £16.03
Median hourly rate £28.00 £48.00 £20.28
Median % change year-on-year -41.67% +136.74% -61.38%
75th Percentile £29.00 £65.00 £21.32
90th Percentile - £68.04 £21.36
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 West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in West Sussex

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in West Sussex

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in West Sussex

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in West Sussex

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 West Sussex 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
Crawley +12 4 £570 +26.67% 1
Burgess Hill - 3 £363 -
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Doxygen
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (42.86%) Couchbase
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) GitLab
3 2 (28.57%) Artifactory
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) JMeter
3 2 (28.57%) Selenium
4 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
4 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 1 (14.29%) GCC
4 1 (14.29%) Inno Setup
4 1 (14.29%) IntelliJ
4 1 (14.29%) JUnit
4 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
4 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
4 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Tester
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
2 1 (14.29%) QA Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Software Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (42.86%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Open Source
3 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Data Management
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
4 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Go
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) LXC
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Kibana
3 1 (14.29%) Podman
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) Black Duck
2 1 (14.29%) Coverity
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) VMware