QA Automation Contracts in Central London

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 172 198
Rank change year-on-year +39 +26 -47
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 4 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.16% 0.078% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.085% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £460 £453 -
25th Percentile £475 £494 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +35.29% -17.87%
75th Percentile £519 £644 £600
90th Percentile £530 £678 £698
London median daily rate £513 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -2.38% +10.53% +11.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

QA 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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,220 3,539 4,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.39% 91.64% 91.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 2,391 3,215
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 30 40
10th Percentile £19.52 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £22.25 £20.42 £23.44
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £36.50 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £56.15 £88.30 £62.83
London median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £35.75
% change year-on-year -26.28% +9.09% +10.96%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in Central London

QA Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Automation in Central London

QA Automation
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 within the Central London region over the 6 months to 24 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 +52 4 £500 -28.57%
QA Automation
London

QA Automation
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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (25.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Sauce Labs
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) Appium
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (25.00%) Gradle
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) JMeter
3 1 (25.00%) Maven
3 1 (25.00%) Mockito
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) CAP Theorem
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Conversational AI
3 1 (25.00%) Conversational UI
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) SDET
3 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Perfecto Mobile