Test Automation Consultant Contracts in London

Automation Test Consultant
England > London

The median Automation Test Consultant daily rate in London is £427 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 396 497 593
Rank change year-on-year +101 +96 -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Consultant 3 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.017% 0.018% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.019% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £383 £440 -
25th Percentile £395 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £447 £519 £444
90th Percentile £451 £530 -
England median daily rate £427 £500 £394
% change year-on-year -14.60% +26.98% -

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%

Test Automation Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Consultant in London

Test Automation Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation Consultant in London

Test Automation Consultant
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 Test Automation Consultant 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 +38 1 £400 -20.00%
Test Automation Consultant
England

Test Automation Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Test Automation Consultant 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 Test Automation Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) TestNG
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) SoapUI
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) eggPlant
2 2 (66.67%) Appium
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) JUnit
2 2 (66.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (66.67%) SOAtest
2 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management

Test Automation Consultant 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Appium
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) eggPlant
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
1 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) SoapUI
1 2 (66.67%) SOAtest
1 2 (66.67%) TestNG
1 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) ATDD
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (33.33%) SAP