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 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 53 46 47
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 734 1,270 2,105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.18% 4.81% 5.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 5.29% 5.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 941 1,571
10th Percentile £363 £425 £413
25th Percentile £431 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £583 £593
Median % change year-on-year -6.01% -1.69% +12.86%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £820 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 15
10th Percentile £52.25 £73.00 £55.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £77.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £90.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +14.29% +15.81%
75th Percentile £65.75 - £85.00
90th Percentile £71.88 - £91.26
England median hourly rate £62.50 £74.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.54% +23.33% +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 15,569 23,994 35,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 90.95% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,151 17,292 26,230
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
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 £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 273 423
10th Percentile £15.95 £18.50 £17.55
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.92 £39.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.41% +5.41% +12.63%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.00 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.45 £81.80 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 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
Central London +6 109 £525 -10.64% 24
East London +7 12 £540 +24.14% 11
South London 0 8 £465 -7.00% 5
West London +8 7 £375 -28.57% 11
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 36 (4.90%) Confluence
2 23 (3.13%) nginx
3 16 (2.18%) Apache Spark
4 15 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.23%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.09%) SAS
8 7 (0.95%) Apache
9 6 (0.82%) CMS
10 4 (0.54%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.41%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
12 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
13 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
13 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.14%) Hyperledger
13 1 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (0.82%) Simulink
1 6 (0.82%) Stateflow
2 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.27%) Mingle
4 2 (0.27%) 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 9 (1.23%) ION MarketView
2 6 (0.82%) Endur
3 5 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.68%) Loan IQ
3 5 (0.68%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.41%) IntelliMatch
4 3 (0.41%) ION Anvil
4 3 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.27%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.14%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.14%) RMDS
6 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 162 (22.07%) AWS
2 159 (21.66%) Azure
3 88 (11.99%) Azure DevOps
4 68 (9.26%) GitHub
5 45 (6.13%) Serverless
6 34 (4.63%) GCP
7 23 (3.13%) Power Platform
8 21 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (2.59%) Amazon S3
9 19 (2.59%) Azure Service Bus
10 18 (2.45%) Entra ID
10 18 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (2.32%) PaaS
11 17 (2.32%) PowerApps
12 16 (2.18%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
12 16 (2.18%) Azure Functions
13 15 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
13 15 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (2.04%) SaaS
14 13 (1.77%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.45%) Firewall
2 11 (1.50%) DNS
3 10 (1.36%) Internet
4 9 (1.23%) VPN
4 9 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (1.09%) 5G
6 7 (0.95%) SSL
7 6 (0.82%) HTTP
8 4 (0.54%) DHCP
8 4 (0.54%) VLAN
8 4 (0.54%) Wireless
9 3 (0.41%) IPv4
10 2 (0.27%) BGP
10 2 (0.27%) DKIM
10 2 (0.27%) DMARC
10 2 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
10 2 (0.27%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.27%) MPLS
10 2 (0.27%) SMS
10 2 (0.27%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (8.58%) NoSQL
2 55 (7.49%) SQL Server
3 35 (4.77%) Relational Database
4 32 (4.36%) MongoDB
5 28 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (3.81%) KDB
6 21 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (2.32%) Big Data
7 17 (2.32%) MySQL
8 15 (2.04%) Data Lake
8 15 (2.04%) DynamoDB
8 15 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (1.91%) Power BI
10 9 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.23%) Kdb+
11 6 (0.82%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.82%) OLTP
11 6 (0.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 127 (17.30%) Selenium
2 118 (16.08%) Git
3 102 (13.90%) Jenkins
3 102 (13.90%) JIRA
4 79 (10.76%) Cucumber
5 71 (9.67%) Postman
6 48 (6.54%) Cypress.io
7 44 (5.99%) SpecFlow
8 42 (5.72%) JMeter
9 40 (5.45%) WebDriver
10 38 (5.18%) TeamCity
11 35 (4.77%) Appium
12 31 (4.22%) JUnit
13 29 (3.95%) GitLab
14 27 (3.68%) REST Assured
15 26 (3.54%) Visual Studio
16 25 (3.41%) Bitbucket
17 24 (3.27%) TestNG
18 20 (2.72%) LoadRunner
18 20 (2.72%) SoapUI
General
1 176 (23.98%) Social Skills
2 160 (21.80%) Finance
3 101 (13.76%) Banking
4 55 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (7.22%) Front Office
6 51 (6.95%) Public Sector
7 46 (6.27%) Investment Banking
8 44 (5.99%) Back Office
9 26 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (2.32%) Legal
11 14 (1.91%) Retail
12 13 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.63%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.50%) Prime Brokerage
15 10 (1.36%) Law
16 8 (1.09%) Retail Banking
17 6 (0.82%) Automotive
17 6 (0.82%) Marketing
17 6 (0.82%) Wholesale Banking
18 5 (0.68%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 201 (27.38%) Developer
2 140 (19.07%) Senior
3 87 (11.85%) Tester
4 76 (10.35%) Lead
5 67 (9.13%) Analyst
6 56 (7.63%) Test Analyst
6 56 (7.63%) Test Engineer
7 50 (6.81%) Java Developer
8 46 (6.27%) Automation Tester
9 43 (5.86%) Senior Developer
10 38 (5.18%) QA Engineer
10 38 (5.18%) Senior Analyst
11 35 (4.77%) Full Stack Developer
11 35 (4.77%) Senior Test Analyst
12 29 (3.95%) Test Manager
13 28 (3.81%) DevOps Engineer
13 28 (3.81%) Software Engineer
14 27 (3.68%) Test Automation Engineer
15 26 (3.54%) C# Developer
15 26 (3.54%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (13.22%) .NET
2 70 (9.54%) REST
3 59 (8.04%) Kafka
4 51 (6.95%) HTML
5 50 (6.81%) CSS
6 46 (6.27%) Node.js
6 46 (6.27%) React
7 42 (5.72%) .NET Framework
8 38 (5.18%) RESTful
9 36 (4.90%) XML
10 33 (4.50%) AngularJS
10 33 (4.50%) Web Services
11 31 (4.22%) .NET Core
12 27 (3.68%) JSON
12 27 (3.68%) Spring
13 24 (3.27%) Laravel
14 22 (3.00%) JAX-RS
14 22 (3.00%) Middleware
15 21 (2.86%) Sass
16 20 (2.72%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.13%) Product Ownership
2 34 (4.63%) Mobile App
3 33 (4.50%) Derivative
4 30 (4.09%) Equities
5 27 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
6 26 (3.54%) Algorithms
7 24 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
8 23 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (2.72%) Fixed Income
9 20 (2.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 17 (2.32%) Cloud Native
11 15 (2.04%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.91%) Hedge funds
13 13 (1.77%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.23%) Onboarding
14 9 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (0.95%) Security Posture
16 7 (0.95%) Virtual Team
17 5 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 83 (11.31%) Linux
2 59 (8.04%) Unix
3 34 (4.63%) Android
4 31 (4.22%) Windows
5 15 (2.04%) Apple iOS
5 15 (2.04%) Mac OS X
6 6 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (41.28%) Agile
2 255 (34.74%) CI/CD
3 204 (27.79%) DevOps
4 140 (19.07%) Continuous Integration
5 127 (17.30%) TDD
6 117 (15.94%) Microservices
7 112 (15.26%) Software Testing
8 103 (14.03%) Scrum
9 98 (13.35%) Test Strategy
10 95 (12.94%) BDD
11 89 (12.13%) Performance Testing
12 85 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
13 75 (10.22%) Software Engineering
14 62 (8.45%) User Acceptance Testing
15 55 (7.49%) Computer Science
16 54 (7.36%) Full Stack Development
17 53 (7.22%) Containerisation
17 53 (7.22%) SDLC
18 51 (6.95%) Test Scripting
19 49 (6.68%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 245 (33.38%) Java
2 189 (25.75%) Python
3 145 (19.75%) SQL
4 142 (19.35%) C#
5 115 (15.67%) JavaScript
6 67 (9.13%) TypeScript
7 43 (5.86%) PowerShell
8 36 (4.90%) C++
9 33 (4.50%) PHP
10 28 (3.81%) Kotlin
11 19 (2.59%) Bash
12 16 (2.18%) Shell Script
13 15 (2.04%) Go
13 15 (2.04%) Scala
14 14 (1.91%) Rust
15 13 (1.77%) C
16 10 (1.36%) Perl
17 7 (0.95%) Ruby
17 7 (0.95%) Swift
18 6 (0.82%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 99 (13.49%) Security Cleared
2 87 (11.85%) SC Cleared
3 66 (8.99%) Degree
4 14 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.77%) ISTQB
6 10 (1.36%) ISEB
7 9 (1.23%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.82%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.41%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.41%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.41%) CISSP
10 3 (0.41%) PhD
10 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.41%) PMP
11 2 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (17.85%) QA
2 35 (4.77%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.59%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.82%) HL7
4 6 (0.82%) WCAG
5 3 (0.41%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.14%) GxP
7 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.14%) JTAG
7 1 (0.14%) MiFID
7 1 (0.14%) NCSC
7 1 (0.14%) NIST
7 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 89 (12.13%) Docker
2 21 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.14%) iptables
5 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 84 (11.44%) Kubernetes
2 61 (8.31%) Terraform
3 36 (4.90%) Ansible
4 23 (3.13%) Grafana
5 20 (2.72%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.36%) Puppet
7 9 (1.23%) Packer
8 8 (1.09%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.54%) Consul
10 4 (0.54%) Iperf
10 4 (0.54%) Kibana
11 3 (0.41%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.41%) logstash
11 3 (0.41%) Opsgenie
11 3 (0.41%) PingFederate
11 3 (0.41%) SCCM
11 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.27%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (0.27%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 94 (12.81%) Microsoft
2 31 (4.22%) Oracle
3 22 (3.00%) ION Trading
4 14 (1.91%) Google
5 13 (1.77%) TIBCO
6 12 (1.63%) SAP
7 9 (1.23%) IBM
7 9 (1.23%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.23%) Splunk
8 8 (1.09%) Databricks
8 8 (1.09%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.09%) HP
9 7 (0.95%) CA Agile Central
9 7 (0.95%) Checkmarx
10 6 (0.82%) CyberArk
11 5 (0.68%) iManage
11 5 (0.68%) Intapp
11 5 (0.68%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.68%) SimCorp
12 4 (0.54%) VMware