Test Automation Contracts in the City of London

Automated Testing
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 45 43
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 105 174 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.77% 4.78% 5.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.27% 5.21% 5.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 126 170
10th Percentile £400 £456 £400
25th Percentile £456 £513 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £598 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% -0.42% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £717 £719
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -12.50% +2.13% +6.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 3,339 3,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.81% 91.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 2,252 2,942
10th Percentile £359 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 23 41
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the City of London

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in the City of London

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in the City of London

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in the City of London

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

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 City of London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London Bridge +2 1 £500 +8.11%
Test Automation
Central London

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 4 (3.81%) nginx
2 3 (2.86%) Confluence
3 2 (1.90%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.90%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.90%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.95%) CMS
4 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Endur
2 1 (0.95%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.95%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 24 (22.86%) AWS
2 18 (17.14%) GitHub
3 17 (16.19%) Azure
4 8 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (5.71%) Serverless
6 5 (4.76%) Amazon S3
6 5 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (3.81%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.86%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.86%) Azure Functions
8 3 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (2.86%) GCP
8 3 (2.86%) NuGet
8 3 (2.86%) SaaS
9 2 (1.90%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) Firewall
2 1 (0.95%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.95%) MQTT
2 1 (0.95%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.62%) MySQL
2 7 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 7 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.81%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.81%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.81%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.90%) KDB
7 2 (1.90%) Power BI
8 1 (0.95%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.95%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.95%) Metadata
8 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 39 (37.14%) Selenium
2 20 (19.05%) Cucumber
3 17 (16.19%) Jenkins
4 16 (15.24%) Git
5 13 (12.38%) Postman
6 11 (10.48%) JIRA
7 10 (9.52%) REST Assured
8 9 (8.57%) Bitbucket
8 9 (8.57%) JUnit
8 9 (8.57%) SpecFlow
8 9 (8.57%) WebDriver
9 8 (7.62%) TestNG
10 7 (6.67%) Cypress.io
11 6 (5.71%) Appium
12 5 (4.76%) JMeter
12 5 (4.76%) Mockito
13 4 (3.81%) GitLab
13 4 (3.81%) Maven
13 4 (3.81%) SoapUI
13 4 (3.81%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.19%) Finance
3 15 (14.29%) Banking
4 7 (6.67%) Prime Brokerage
5 6 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.81%) Back Office
6 4 (3.81%) Front Office
6 4 (3.81%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.90%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.90%) Retail
7 2 (1.90%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.95%) Aviation
8 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.95%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (23.81%) Developer
2 19 (18.10%) Senior
3 16 (15.24%) Tester
4 11 (10.48%) Automation Tester
5 10 (9.52%) Analyst
5 10 (9.52%) Test Engineer
6 8 (7.62%) QA Engineer
6 8 (7.62%) Test Analyst
7 6 (5.71%) Java Developer
7 6 (5.71%) Senior Developer
7 6 (5.71%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) Full Stack Developer
8 4 (3.81%) Lead
8 4 (3.81%) Senior Tester
9 3 (2.86%) Consultant
9 3 (2.86%) PHP Developer
9 3 (2.86%) QA Tester
9 3 (2.86%) Quantitative Developer
9 3 (2.86%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (2.86%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.38%) REST
2 10 (9.52%) .NET
3 7 (6.67%) Kafka
4 6 (5.71%) AngularJS
4 6 (5.71%) CSS
4 6 (5.71%) HTML
4 6 (5.71%) JAX-RS
5 5 (4.76%) .NET Framework
5 5 (4.76%) Gherkin
5 5 (4.76%) Laravel
5 5 (4.76%) RESTful
5 5 (4.76%) Spring
5 5 (4.76%) Spring Boot
5 5 (4.76%) Web Services
6 4 (3.81%) .NET Core
6 4 (3.81%) React
6 4 (3.81%) XML
7 3 (2.86%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (2.86%) Middleware
7 3 (2.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.57%) Equities
2 4 (3.81%) Algorithms
2 4 (3.81%) Fixed Income
3 3 (2.86%) Derivative
3 3 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.90%) BYOD
4 2 (1.90%) Life Science
4 2 (1.90%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.95%) DTCC
5 1 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.95%) Machine to Machine
5 1 (0.95%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.38%) Linux
2 10 (9.52%) Unix
3 8 (7.62%) Windows
4 4 (3.81%) Mac OS X
5 3 (2.86%) Android
6 2 (1.90%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.90%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.95%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 36 (34.29%) Agile
3 22 (20.95%) DevOps
4 19 (18.10%) Software Testing
5 16 (15.24%) Test Strategy
6 14 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (13.33%) Microservices
6 14 (13.33%) SDET
6 14 (13.33%) TDD
6 14 (13.33%) Test Scripting
7 13 (12.38%) BDD
8 12 (11.43%) Performance Testing
9 11 (10.48%) API Testing
10 10 (9.52%) Analytics
11 9 (8.57%) Integration Testing
11 9 (8.57%) Migration
11 9 (8.57%) Scrum
12 8 (7.62%) Continuous Deployment
12 8 (7.62%) Unit Testing
13 7 (6.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 47 (44.76%) Java
2 28 (26.67%) C#
2 28 (26.67%) SQL
3 24 (22.86%) Python
4 15 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.67%) PHP
6 6 (5.71%) C++
7 5 (4.76%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.86%) Bash
9 2 (1.90%) Rust
9 2 (1.90%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.95%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.95%) Perl
10 1 (0.95%) Ruby
10 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.14%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.62%) ISTQB
4 6 (5.71%) Degree
5 5 (4.76%) ISEB
6 2 (1.90%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.90%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.90%) PMP
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.95%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.95%) PhD
7 1 (0.95%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (27.62%) QA
2 7 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.90%) WCAG
5 1 (0.95%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.95%) MiFID
System Software
1 14 (13.33%) Docker
2 2 (1.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.95%) iptables
Systems Management
1 11 (10.48%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.67%) Terraform
3 4 (3.81%) Ansible
4 2 (1.90%) Grafana
4 2 (1.90%) Kustomize
4 2 (1.90%) Packer
4 2 (1.90%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.90%) Puppet
5 1 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.95%) Consul
5 1 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.95%) Graylog
5 1 (0.95%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.95%) Nagios
5 1 (0.95%) Nessus
5 1 (0.95%) Opsgenie
5 1 (0.95%) PingFederate
5 1 (0.95%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.95%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 11 (10.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.57%) Oracle
3 3 (2.86%) IBM
3 3 (2.86%) Splunk
4 2 (1.90%) Micro Focus
4 2 (1.90%) OpenLink
4 2 (1.90%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.95%) Adobe
5 1 (0.95%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.95%) Dell
5 1 (0.95%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.95%) Google
5 1 (0.95%) Informatica
5 1 (0.95%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.95%) PagerDuty
5 1 (0.95%) Perfecto Mobile
5 1 (0.95%) Qualtrics
5 1 (0.95%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.95%) SnapLogic
5 1 (0.95%) Veracode