Test Automation Contracts in London

Automated Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 50 46 48
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 711 1,330 2,086
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.01% 4.91% 5.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 5.39% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 976 1,553
10th Percentile £363 £423 £413
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £580
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +1.29% +12.62%
75th Percentile £688 £707 £688
90th Percentile £775 £820 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +15.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 17
10th Percentile £52.00 £72.25 £53.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £75.63 £60.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £85.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +7.94% +24.02%
75th Percentile £65.00 £90.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £67.18 - £91.14
England median hourly rate £60.00 £61.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% +33.33%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,674 24,676 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 91.13% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 17,739 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 281 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £50.68
90th Percentile £66.30 £78.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
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 within the 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
Central London +2 107 £525 -12.50% 21
East London +5 12 £540 +24.14% 13
West London +6 7 £375 -31.82% 10
South London -3 5 £475 -5.00% 3
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
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 34 (4.78%) Confluence
2 21 (2.95%) nginx
3 15 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.98%) Apache
7 6 (0.84%) CMS
7 6 (0.84%) SAS
7 6 (0.84%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.56%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.42%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.42%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.42%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.28%) CICS
10 2 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.14%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (0.84%) Simulink
1 6 (0.84%) Stateflow
2 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.28%) Mingle
4 2 (0.28%) Trello
5 1 (0.14%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.14%) Gliffy
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.13%) ION MarketView
2 6 (0.84%) Endur
3 5 (0.70%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.56%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.42%) IntelliMatch
5 3 (0.42%) ION Anvil
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.14%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.14%) RMDS
7 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 164 (23.07%) AWS
2 147 (20.68%) Azure
3 80 (11.25%) Azure DevOps
4 70 (9.85%) GitHub
5 44 (6.19%) Serverless
6 29 (4.08%) GCP
7 21 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (2.81%) Power Platform
9 19 (2.67%) Amazon S3
10 18 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (2.39%) Azure Service Bus
12 15 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (2.11%) Azure Functions
12 15 (2.11%) Entra ID
12 15 (2.11%) PowerApps
12 15 (2.11%) SaaS
13 14 (1.97%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
13 14 (1.97%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (1.97%) PaaS
14 13 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.53%) Firewall
2 12 (1.69%) DNS
3 11 (1.55%) Internet
4 9 (1.27%) VPN
5 8 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.98%) 5G
6 7 (0.98%) SSL
7 6 (0.84%) HTTP
8 4 (0.56%) DHCP
8 4 (0.56%) VLAN
8 4 (0.56%) Wireless
9 3 (0.42%) IPv4
9 3 (0.42%) SNA
10 2 (0.28%) BGP
10 2 (0.28%) DKIM
10 2 (0.28%) DMARC
10 2 (0.28%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.28%) MPLS
10 2 (0.28%) SMS
10 2 (0.28%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (8.86%) NoSQL
2 55 (7.74%) SQL Server
3 33 (4.64%) MongoDB
4 29 (4.08%) Relational Database
5 25 (3.52%) KDB
6 24 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (2.39%) Big Data
8 17 (2.39%) MySQL
9 15 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (2.11%) DynamoDB
9 15 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (1.97%) Data Lake
11 13 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.55%) Power BI
13 10 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.27%) Kdb+
15 6 (0.84%) Hadoop
15 6 (0.84%) OLTP
16 5 (0.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 123 (17.30%) Selenium
2 107 (15.05%) Git
3 101 (14.21%) Jenkins
4 95 (13.36%) JIRA
5 79 (11.11%) Cucumber
6 59 (8.30%) Postman
7 48 (6.75%) Cypress.io
8 44 (6.19%) SpecFlow
9 38 (5.34%) TeamCity
10 37 (5.20%) WebDriver
11 36 (5.06%) JMeter
12 33 (4.64%) JUnit
13 30 (4.22%) REST Assured
14 29 (4.08%) Appium
15 26 (3.66%) GitLab
16 25 (3.52%) TestNG
17 22 (3.09%) Bitbucket
17 22 (3.09%) Visual Studio
18 20 (2.81%) SoapUI
19 18 (2.53%) Mockito
General
1 158 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 147 (20.68%) Finance
3 97 (13.64%) Banking
4 54 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (7.03%) Front Office
6 48 (6.75%) Public Sector
7 45 (6.33%) Investment Banking
8 34 (4.78%) Back Office
9 26 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.97%) Legal
10 14 (1.97%) Retail
10 14 (1.97%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.55%) Prime Brokerage
13 10 (1.41%) Law
14 8 (1.13%) Electronics
14 8 (1.13%) Marketing
14 8 (1.13%) Retail Banking
15 6 (0.84%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.84%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 188 (26.44%) Developer
2 123 (17.30%) Senior
3 90 (12.66%) Tester
4 73 (10.27%) Lead
5 57 (8.02%) Analyst
5 57 (8.02%) Test Engineer
6 46 (6.47%) Automation Tester
6 46 (6.47%) Test Analyst
7 44 (6.19%) Java Developer
8 42 (5.91%) Senior Developer
9 39 (5.49%) QA Engineer
10 30 (4.22%) Full Stack Developer
11 29 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
11 29 (4.08%) Test Manager
12 28 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
13 27 (3.80%) Software Engineer
14 26 (3.66%) Test Automation Engineer
14 26 (3.66%) Test Leader
15 25 (3.52%) C# Developer
15 25 (3.52%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (12.52%) .NET
2 66 (9.28%) REST
3 55 (7.74%) Kafka
4 45 (6.33%) React
5 44 (6.19%) CSS
5 44 (6.19%) HTML
5 44 (6.19%) Node.js
6 41 (5.77%) .NET Framework
7 37 (5.20%) RESTful
8 36 (5.06%) XML
9 29 (4.08%) .NET Core
9 29 (4.08%) AngularJS
9 29 (4.08%) Web Services
10 28 (3.94%) JSON
11 24 (3.38%) Middleware
11 24 (3.38%) Spring
12 21 (2.95%) Laravel
13 20 (2.81%) GraphQL
14 19 (2.67%) JAX-RS
14 19 (2.67%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.34%) Product Ownership
2 30 (4.22%) Derivative
3 29 (4.08%) Equities
4 26 (3.66%) Mobile App
5 25 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (3.38%) Algorithms
7 23 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
8 21 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 18 (2.53%) Fixed Income
11 17 (2.39%) Cloud Native
12 15 (2.11%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.69%) Public Cloud
14 11 (1.55%) Hedge funds
15 8 (1.13%) Onboarding
15 8 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (0.98%) Security Posture
17 6 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
18 5 (0.70%) Data Centre
18 5 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 78 (10.97%) Linux
2 53 (7.45%) Unix
3 28 (3.94%) Android
4 26 (3.66%) Windows
5 15 (2.11%) Mac OS X
6 13 (1.83%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.84%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (40.08%) Agile
2 250 (35.16%) CI/CD
3 194 (27.29%) DevOps
4 125 (17.58%) Continuous Integration
5 116 (16.32%) TDD
6 115 (16.17%) Microservices
7 107 (15.05%) Software Testing
8 97 (13.64%) Scrum
9 91 (12.80%) BDD
10 90 (12.66%) Test Strategy
11 79 (11.11%) Performance Testing
12 78 (10.97%) Problem-Solving
13 73 (10.27%) Software Engineering
14 60 (8.44%) User Acceptance Testing
15 54 (7.59%) Containerisation
16 53 (7.45%) Migration
16 53 (7.45%) Test Scripting
17 50 (7.03%) Full Stack Development
17 50 (7.03%) SDLC
18 49 (6.89%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 235 (33.05%) Java
2 190 (26.72%) Python
3 141 (19.83%) SQL
4 136 (19.13%) C#
5 108 (15.19%) JavaScript
6 64 (9.00%) TypeScript
7 39 (5.49%) PowerShell
8 33 (4.64%) C++
9 29 (4.08%) PHP
10 21 (2.95%) Kotlin
11 17 (2.39%) Bash
12 16 (2.25%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.97%) Go
13 14 (1.97%) Rust
14 12 (1.69%) C
14 12 (1.69%) Scala
15 11 (1.55%) Perl
16 9 (1.27%) Ruby
17 6 (0.84%) MATLAB
18 5 (0.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 103 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 90 (12.66%) SC Cleared
3 60 (8.44%) Degree
4 15 (2.11%) ISTQB
5 12 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.41%) ISEB
7 9 (1.27%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.42%) PhD
9 3 (0.42%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.42%) PMP
10 2 (0.28%) CISSP
10 2 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.14%) CEH
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (18.28%) QA
2 34 (4.78%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.81%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.84%) WCAG
5 5 (0.70%) HL7
5 5 (0.70%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.42%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.14%) GxP
8 1 (0.14%) JTAG
8 1 (0.14%) MiFID
8 1 (0.14%) NCSC
8 1 (0.14%) NIST
8 1 (0.14%) SLA
8 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 89 (12.52%) Docker
2 18 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.42%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.14%) iptables
5 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 85 (11.95%) Kubernetes
2 63 (8.86%) Terraform
3 31 (4.36%) Ansible
4 21 (2.95%) Grafana
5 19 (2.67%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.55%) Puppet
7 9 (1.27%) Packer
7 9 (1.27%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.56%) Consul
8 4 (0.56%) Iperf
8 4 (0.56%) Kibana
9 3 (0.42%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.42%) logstash
9 3 (0.42%) Opsgenie
9 3 (0.42%) Rancher
9 3 (0.42%) SCCM
9 3 (0.42%) vRealize
9 3 (0.42%) VxRail
10 2 (0.28%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 84 (11.81%) Microsoft
2 31 (4.36%) Oracle
3 19 (2.67%) ION Trading
4 14 (1.97%) TIBCO
5 13 (1.83%) SAP
6 11 (1.55%) IBM
7 10 (1.41%) Google
8 9 (1.27%) Splunk
9 8 (1.13%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.98%) Dynatrace
11 6 (0.84%) CA Agile Central
11 6 (0.84%) Databricks
11 6 (0.84%) HP
12 5 (0.70%) Checkmarx
12 5 (0.70%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.70%) VMware
13 4 (0.56%) Dell
13 4 (0.56%) iManage
13 4 (0.56%) Intapp
13 4 (0.56%) OpenAI