Automation Tester Contracts in Central London

Automation Tester
London > Central London

As of 1 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Automation Tester daily rate in Central London.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 122 166
Rank change year-on-year -5 +44 +14
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 2 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.10% 0.45% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.47% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 10 3
10th Percentile - £343 £307
25th Percentile - £466 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +28.57% +29.63%
75th Percentile - £688 £556
90th Percentile - - £568
London median daily rate £465 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.10% - +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in Central London

Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Tester in Central London

Automation Tester
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Tester within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London -1 2 - -
Automation Tester
London

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Automation Tester 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 Central London region featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) Hamcrest
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch

Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Hamcrest
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) Serenity BDD
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Assurance
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk