QA Automation Engineer Contracts in London

Automation QA Engineer
England > London

The median Automation QA Engineer daily rate in London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 479 567
Rank change year-on-year +86 +88 -141
Contract jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 6 23 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.034% 0.084% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.089% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 22 21
10th Percentile £460 £367 £406
25th Percentile £475 £550 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £513 £738 £588
90th Percentile £520 - £700
England median daily rate £488 £650 £520
% change year-on-year -25.00% +25.00% +15.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,628 25,954 37,220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.32% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,036 18,763 27,151
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 294 454
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.45 £77.48 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

QA Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured QA Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Engineer in London

QA Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Automation Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for QA Automation Engineer in London

QA Automation Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 24 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
Central London - 3 £475 -
QA Automation Engineer
England

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, QA Automation Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring QA Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (66.67%) QA Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
3 3 (50.00%) Selenium
3 3 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Degree
4 2 (33.33%) BDD
4 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (33.33%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (33.33%) Resource Management
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 1 (16.67%) Conversational AI
5 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
5 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (16.67%) Perfecto Mobile
5 1 (16.67%) Conversational UI
5 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
5 1 (16.67%) Postman
5 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) BrowserStack
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
1 1 (16.67%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 3 (50.00%) Selenium
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (16.67%) Appium
4 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (16.67%) Git
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) JMeter
4 1 (16.67%) Postman
4 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
4 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
4 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) Gherkin
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) QA Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
4 1 (16.67%) API Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (16.67%) Conversational AI
4 1 (16.67%) Conversational UI
4 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
4 1 (16.67%) Fintech
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Regression Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (33.33%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Perfecto Mobile