Test Automation Contracts in Wiltshire

Automated Testing
South West > Wiltshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 84 57 42
Rank change year-on-year -27 -15 -18
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 8 37 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.82% 3.46% 4.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 3.79% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 30 28
10th Percentile £360 £413 £428
25th Percentile £375 £434 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +1.52% +3.68%
75th Percentile £543 £543 £511
90th Percentile £549 £638 £540
South West median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 810 977 804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 83.33% 91.39% 91.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 813 599
10th Percentile £320 £400 £363
25th Percentile £463 £473 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +8.49% +6.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £638
90th Percentile £706 £725 £689
South West median daily rate £525 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +5.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 23
10th Percentile £12.00 £60.00 £17.75
25th Percentile £12.79 £61.50 £28.25
Median hourly rate £14.54 £75.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -80.61% +38.89% +13.68%
75th Percentile £23.75 £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile £39.00 £92.50 £69.90
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 Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Wiltshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Wiltshire

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Wiltshire

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Wiltshire

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire 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
Swindon +3 4 £400 -23.81% 1
Malmesbury -4 1 £550 +10.00%
Corsham -16 1 £533 -3.18% 1
Chippenham - 1 £375 - 2
Test Automation
South West

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (12.50%) Mendix
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
2 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Hive
1 1 (12.50%) Big Data
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
1 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) LabVIEW
2 1 (12.50%) Postman
General
1 3 (37.50%) Aerospace
1 3 (37.50%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth
1 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 1 (12.50%) Low-Code
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Scrum
2 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
2 3 (37.50%) System Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
3 2 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (12.50%) API Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (12.50%) Data Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (12.50%) Defect Management
4 1 (12.50%) ETL
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C++
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) C
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) JTAG
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Cloudera
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft