Test Automation Contracts in West London

Automated Testing
London > West London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 44 35
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 -12
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 7 19 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 1.96% 3.33% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 3.56% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 25
10th Percentile £288 £471 £433
25th Percentile £353 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -16.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £594 £591 £669
90th Percentile £663 £721 -
London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
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
West 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 West London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 314 533 562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 87.71% 93.51% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 389 402
10th Percentile £225 £350 £238
25th Percentile £325 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £510
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +10.29% -0.97%
75th Percentile £585 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 51 27
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.00 £15.65
25th Percentile £17.18 £47.88 £17.27
Median hourly rate £30.16 £65.00 £21.93
Median % change year-on-year -53.60% +196.40% -25.03%
75th Percentile £56.88 £75.00 £41.51
90th Percentile £65.00 £90.00 £43.61
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in West London

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in West London

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in West London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in West London

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in West London

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Hounslow -7 3 £313 -37.50% 1
Hillingdon +26 1 £375 -42.31% 1
Test Automation
London

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 3 (42.86%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon Cognito
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) AWS KMS
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SMS
2 1 (14.29%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
3 1 (14.29%) Couchbase
3 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) Mocha
3 2 (28.57%) Postman
3 2 (28.57%) REST Assured
4 1 (14.29%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (14.29%) Spock
4 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Backend Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Node.js Developer
2 2 (28.57%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Scrum Master
3 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum Master
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Web Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) REST
2 3 (42.86%) Node.js
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CDK
3 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
3 2 (28.57%) JSON
3 2 (28.57%) Lambda Expressions
3 2 (28.57%) Next.js
3 2 (28.57%) XML
4 1 (14.29%) .NET
4 1 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (14.29%) Kafka
4 1 (14.29%) Middleware
4 1 (14.29%) pytest
4 1 (14.29%) React
4 1 (14.29%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
4 2 (28.57%) API Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
4 2 (28.57%) SOA
4 2 (28.57%) TDD
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
5 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
5 1 (14.29%) Content Management
5 1 (14.29%) Logistics
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) OO
5 1 (14.29%) OOD
5 1 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) SOLID
5 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Groovy
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle