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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 47 42
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 106 167 222
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.91% 4.68% 5.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.42% 5.11% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 119 168
10th Percentile £375 £456 £406
25th Percentile £435 £513 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% -0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £719
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £588 £596
% change year-on-year -10.64% -1.34% +8.27%

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 1,955 3,266 3,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.46% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,381 2,203 2,972
10th Percentile £356 £356 £385
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £688
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 44
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.10 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.61 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £64.78
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 13 May 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 13 May 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 (3.77%) nginx
2 3 (2.83%) Confluence
3 2 (1.89%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.89%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.89%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.94%) CMS
4 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Endur
2 1 (0.94%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.94%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 25 (23.58%) AWS
2 18 (16.98%) Azure
3 17 (16.04%) GitHub
4 10 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.66%) Amazon S3
5 6 (5.66%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (4.72%) GCP
6 5 (4.72%) Serverless
7 4 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.83%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.83%) NuGet
9 2 (1.89%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 2 (1.89%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.77%) Firewall
2 1 (0.94%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.94%) MQTT
2 1 (0.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.55%) MySQL
1 8 (7.55%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.60%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.77%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.77%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.77%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.89%) KDB
5 2 (1.89%) Power BI
6 1 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.94%) Kdb+
6 1 (0.94%) Metadata
6 1 (0.94%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (35.85%) Selenium
2 18 (16.98%) Cucumber
3 16 (15.09%) Jenkins
4 15 (14.15%) Git
4 15 (14.15%) Postman
5 10 (9.43%) JIRA
5 10 (9.43%) WebDriver
6 9 (8.49%) Bitbucket
6 9 (8.49%) SpecFlow
7 8 (7.55%) JUnit
7 8 (7.55%) REST Assured
8 7 (6.60%) TestNG
9 6 (5.66%) Appium
9 6 (5.66%) Cypress.io
9 6 (5.66%) JMeter
9 6 (5.66%) Maven
10 5 (4.72%) Mockito
10 5 (4.72%) TeamCity
11 4 (3.77%) GitLab
11 4 (3.77%) SoapUI
General
1 24 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.98%) Finance
3 16 (15.09%) Banking
4 7 (6.60%) Prime Brokerage
4 7 (6.60%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.66%) Back Office
6 5 (4.72%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.77%) Front Office
8 3 (2.83%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (2.83%) Retail
8 3 (2.83%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.94%) Aviation
10 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.94%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (26.42%) Developer
2 22 (20.75%) Senior
3 16 (15.09%) Tester
4 13 (12.26%) Analyst
5 11 (10.38%) Automation Tester
5 11 (10.38%) Test Analyst
6 8 (7.55%) Java Developer
6 8 (7.55%) Test Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) QA Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.66%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (5.66%) Senior Test Analyst
9 5 (4.72%) Test Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Full Stack Developer
10 4 (3.77%) Lead
10 4 (3.77%) PHP Developer
10 4 (3.77%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (3.77%) Senior Tester
11 3 (2.83%) Architect
11 3 (2.83%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.21%) REST
2 10 (9.43%) .NET
3 8 (7.55%) JAX-RS
4 7 (6.60%) Kafka
4 7 (6.60%) Spring
4 7 (6.60%) Spring Boot
5 6 (5.66%) AngularJS
5 6 (5.66%) CSS
5 6 (5.66%) HTML
5 6 (5.66%) Laravel
5 6 (5.66%) RESTful
6 5 (4.72%) .NET Framework
6 5 (4.72%) Gherkin
6 5 (4.72%) Web Services
7 4 (3.77%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.83%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.83%) pytest
8 3 (2.83%) React
8 3 (2.83%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.49%) Equities
2 4 (3.77%) Algorithms
2 4 (3.77%) Fixed Income
2 4 (3.77%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.83%) Derivative
3 3 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.83%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.89%) Life Science
4 2 (1.89%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.94%) BYOD
5 1 (0.94%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.94%) Genomics
5 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.94%) Machine to Machine
5 1 (0.94%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.94%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.26%) Linux
2 10 (9.43%) Unix
3 9 (8.49%) Windows
4 5 (4.72%) Android
5 4 (3.77%) Mac OS X
6 3 (2.83%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.89%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.94%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (35.85%) Agile
1 38 (35.85%) CI/CD
2 23 (21.70%) DevOps
3 21 (19.81%) Software Testing
4 18 (16.98%) Continuous Integration
5 17 (16.04%) Test Strategy
6 16 (15.09%) TDD
7 13 (12.26%) Microservices
7 13 (12.26%) SDET
7 13 (12.26%) Test Scripting
8 12 (11.32%) API Testing
8 12 (11.32%) BDD
8 12 (11.32%) Performance Testing
9 10 (9.43%) Analytics
9 10 (9.43%) Scrum
10 9 (8.49%) Unit Testing
11 8 (7.55%) Continuous Deployment
11 8 (7.55%) Integration Testing
11 8 (7.55%) Manual Testing
11 8 (7.55%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 47 (44.34%) Java
2 29 (27.36%) SQL
3 27 (25.47%) C#
4 23 (21.70%) Python
5 14 (13.21%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.55%) PHP
7 6 (5.66%) C++
7 6 (5.66%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.83%) Bash
8 3 (2.83%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.89%) Rust
9 2 (1.89%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.94%) Bicep
10 1 (0.94%) Perl
10 1 (0.94%) Ruby
10 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (16.04%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.60%) ISTQB
4 6 (5.66%) Degree
5 5 (4.72%) ISEB
6 2 (1.89%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.89%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.89%) PMP
7 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.94%) PhD
7 1 (0.94%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (24.53%) QA
2 6 (5.66%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.89%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.89%) WCAG
4 1 (0.94%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.94%) MiFID
System Software
1 16 (15.09%) Docker
2 2 (1.89%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.94%) iptables
Systems Management
1 11 (10.38%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.60%) Terraform
3 5 (4.72%) Ansible
4 2 (1.89%) Grafana
4 2 (1.89%) Kustomize
4 2 (1.89%) Packer
4 2 (1.89%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.89%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.89%) Puppet
5 1 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.94%) Consul
5 1 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.94%) Graylog
5 1 (0.94%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.94%) Nagios
5 1 (0.94%) Nessus
5 1 (0.94%) Opsgenie
5 1 (0.94%) PingFederate
5 1 (0.94%) Rancher
5 1 (0.94%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 11 (10.38%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.55%) Oracle
3 3 (2.83%) Google
3 3 (2.83%) Splunk
4 2 (1.89%) IBM
4 2 (1.89%) Micro Focus
4 2 (1.89%) OpenLink
4 2 (1.89%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.94%) Adobe
5 1 (0.94%) Dell
5 1 (0.94%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.94%) Guidewire
5 1 (0.94%) Informatica
5 1 (0.94%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.94%) PagerDuty
5 1 (0.94%) Perfecto Mobile
5 1 (0.94%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.94%) SnapLogic
5 1 (0.94%) Veracode
5 1 (0.94%) VMware