Test Automation Contracts in Wiltshire

Automated Testing
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 54 45
Rank change year-on-year -22 -9 -21
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 12 37 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 1.26% 3.49% 4.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 3.83% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 29 26
10th Percentile £371 £413 £427
25th Percentile £375 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +3.09% +2.11%
75th Percentile £576 £538 £509
90th Percentile £581 £608 £541
South West median daily rate £570 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +8.57% +5.00% +5.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 797 965 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 83.37% 91.12% 91.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 791 590
10th Percentile £315 £400 £362
25th Percentile £463 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.26% +8.44% +6.05%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £688
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 20
10th Percentile £12.08 £58.43 £23.83
25th Percentile £12.79 £60.38 £45.31
Median hourly rate £14.54 £69.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -78.93% +26.61% +9.00%
75th Percentile £17.25 £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile £30.25 £90.00 £70.60
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.74
% change year-on-year -4.35% +17.97% +8.31%

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 11 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 11 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 +1 4 £400 -23.81%
Corsham -16 3 £570 +3.64% 1
Chippenham - 2 £375 - 2
Malmesbury -3 1 £550 +10.00%
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 2 (16.67%) Mendix
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Apache
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (16.67%) Power Automate
2 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
2 2 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Hive
1 1 (8.33%) Big Data
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (8.33%) Metadata
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Postman
3 1 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) LabVIEW
General
1 3 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 3 (25.00%) Automotive
1 3 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Tester
2 4 (33.33%) Automation Tester
2 4 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) QA Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
1 2 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (8.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Low-Code
1 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) Scrum
2 6 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 4 (33.33%) Regression Testing
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (25.00%) System Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Test Planning
5 2 (16.67%) API Integration
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) Time Management
5 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Data Cleansing
6 1 (8.33%) Data Validation
6 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) C#
1 3 (25.00%) C++
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (8.33%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) JTAG
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Cloudera
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) VMware