QA Automation Contract Job Trends in Central London

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring QA Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 125 146
Rank change year-on-year -5 +21 +55
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 2 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.10% 0.21% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.23% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - £555 -
25th Percentile £659 £556 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £668 £566 £650
Median % change year-on-year +17.88% -12.88% +44.44%
75th Percentile £676 £576 £675
90th Percentile - £576 -
London median daily rate £375 £475 £675
% change year-on-year -21.05% -29.63% +37.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

QA Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,829 2,219 2,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 91.82% 91.66% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,275 1,396 1,775
10th Percentile £338 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £669 £688 £690
90th Percentile £750 £778 £825
London median daily rate £526 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.45% -3.08% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 28 16
10th Percentile £19.98 £19.90 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.60 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%
75th Percentile £46.11 £48.13 £51.31
90th Percentile £60.25 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £29.50 £37.25 £35.63
% change year-on-year -20.81% +4.55% -9.80%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QA Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

QA Automation job vacancy trend in Central London

QA Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing QA Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing QA Automation

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 5 December 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 0 2 £668 +17.88% 2
QA Automation
London

QA Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Back Office
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
1 2 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) UiPath