Test Automation Contracts in East London

Automated Testing
London > East London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 28 32
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 -10
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 13 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 5.65% 1.70% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.02% 1.94% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 5
10th Percentile £320 £228 £373
25th Percentile £432 £299 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £435 £550
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -20.91% -15.38%
75th Percentile £581 £453 £580
90th Percentile £875 - £589
London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +11.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East 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 East London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 216 155 231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 93.91% 88.07% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 123 188
10th Percentile £360 £201 £241
25th Percentile £431 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £580
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -8.62% +20.83%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £667
90th Percentile £770 £770 £750
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £11.95 £21.24 £16.50
Median hourly rate £23.32 £22.49 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.71% +32.26% -36.21%
75th Percentile £36.48 £23.73 £25.48
90th Percentile £38.28 - £40.48
London median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year -26.28% +6.12% +12.47%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in East London

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in East London

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in East London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in East London

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in East London

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Tower Hamlets - 6 £540 -
Greenwich -4 5 £388 -10.92% 1
Docklands, London +3 2 £850 +372.22%
Test Automation
London

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (15.38%) SAS
1 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) OneDrive
3 2 (15.38%) Tricentis Tosca
4 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Internet
1 2 (15.38%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (15.38%) KDB
1 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Gradle
1 3 (23.08%) IntelliJ
1 3 (23.08%) Selenium
2 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) JMeter
2 2 (15.38%) NeoLoad
2 2 (15.38%) Postman
2 2 (15.38%) SoapUI
2 2 (15.38%) TeamCity
3 1 (7.69%) Appium
3 1 (7.69%) Eclipse
3 1 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) LoadRunner
3 1 (7.69%) Maven
3 1 (7.69%) Rational Performance Tester
3 1 (7.69%) SpecFlow
3 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
3 1 (7.69%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Back Office
4 2 (15.38%) Front Office
4 2 (15.38%) Games
5 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Analyst
1 3 (23.08%) Senior
1 3 (23.08%) Senior Analyst
1 3 (23.08%) Senior Test Analyst
1 3 (23.08%) Test Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Agile Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Deployment Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Deployment Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Electronic Trading Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Manual Tester
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365 Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Software Test Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Test Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) JSON
1 4 (30.77%) XML
2 3 (23.08%) REST
2 3 (23.08%) Spring
3 2 (15.38%) .NET
3 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
3 2 (15.38%) ADO
3 2 (15.38%) CSS
3 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (15.38%) HTML
3 2 (15.38%) Sass
3 2 (15.38%) Spring Batch
4 1 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (7.69%) Hibernate
4 1 (7.69%) JMS
4 1 (7.69%) JPA
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
1 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
1 2 (15.38%) Derivative
1 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (15.38%) Fixed Income
1 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
1 2 (15.38%) Video Conferencing
1 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Android
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (53.85%) Scrum
4 6 (46.15%) TDD
5 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
5 5 (38.46%) DevOps
5 5 (38.46%) Software Testing
6 4 (30.77%) BDD
6 4 (30.77%) Kanban
6 4 (30.77%) User Stories
7 3 (23.08%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (23.08%) Manual Testing
7 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
8 2 (15.38%) Burndown Charts
8 2 (15.38%) Conflict Resolution
8 2 (15.38%) Critical Thinking
8 2 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
8 2 (15.38%) Journey Map
8 2 (15.38%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
4 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kibana
1 2 (15.38%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) ION Trading
3 1 (7.69%) HP
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle