Test Automation Contracts in South London

Automated Testing
London > South London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 32 24
Rank change year-on-year -1 -8 -12
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 8 17 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 3.32% 4.39% 8.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 4.90% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 29
10th Percentile £342 £330 £408
25th Percentile £405 £419 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -13.04% +27.78%
75th Percentile £488 £609 £625
90th Percentile £525 £640 £700
London median daily rate £550 £575 £586
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.92% +11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.63 - -
Median hourly rate £68.75 - -
75th Percentile £71.88 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £90.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year -38.89% +14.29% +15.81%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 227 347 328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 94.19% 89.66% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 277 246
10th Percentile £266 £300 £333
25th Percentile £425 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £575 £649 £638
90th Percentile £634 £760 £700
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 14
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.75 £39.43
25th Percentile £20.25 £20.00 £40.70
Median hourly rate £23.50 £50.42 £46.82
Median % change year-on-year -53.39% +7.70% +0.68%
75th Percentile £77.19 - £48.59
90th Percentile £83.75 £55.22 £54.08
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in South London

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in South London

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in South London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in South London

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in South London

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Croydon -1 4 £410 -24.60% 1
Bromley +6 2 - -
Sutton +1 1 £475 +26.50%
Test Automation
London

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) 4G
1 1 (12.50%) 5G
1 1 (12.50%) IPv4
1 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (25.00%) Selenium
4 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (12.50%) GitLab
4 1 (12.50%) JMeter
4 1 (12.50%) Postman
4 1 (12.50%) REST Assured
4 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Back Office
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Lead
1 2 (25.00%) QA Leader
1 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Developer in Test
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Payments Tester
2 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Tester
2 1 (12.50%) UAT Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Robotics
2 1 (12.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (12.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) BDD
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Test Management
4 1 (12.50%) Agile Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) CRM
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Kanban
4 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Open Source
4 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
4 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C
1 3 (37.50%) C++
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Kotlin
3 1 (12.50%) Rust
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Consul
3 1 (12.50%) Kibana
3 1 (12.50%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 1 (12.50%) Spotify