QA Automation Engineer Contracts in Central London

Automation QA Engineer
London > Central London

The median Automation QA Engineer daily rate in Central London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 - 194
Rank change year-on-year - - -45
Contract jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 3 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.12% - 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £455 - -
25th Percentile £463 - £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +70.59%
75th Percentile £488 - £763
90th Percentile £495 - -
London median daily rate £500 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% +22.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,351 3,681 4,277
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.26% 95.34% 94.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,676 2,515 3,259
10th Percentile £347 £321 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £560
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +3.57% +6.67%
75th Percentile £683 £725 £675
90th Percentile £789 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 30 50
10th Percentile £19.23 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £21.44 £18.93 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £48.30 £85.33 £62.83
London median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +12.90%

QA Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Engineer in Central London

QA Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Automation Engineer in Central London

QA Automation Engineer
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 QA Automation Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 25 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
City of London - 3 £475 -
QA Automation Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, QA Automation Engineer 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 QA Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) QA Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Middleware
3 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) JMeter
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Wealth Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
3 1 (33.33%) Confluence
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall

QA Automation Engineer 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) BrowserStack
1 1 (33.33%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Appium
3 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) JMeter
3 1 (33.33%) Postman
3 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
3 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) QA Automation
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) SDET
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Perfecto Mobile