Test Automation Contracts in Central London

Automated Testing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 39 48
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 -3
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 78 115 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.13% 4.80% 4.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 5.27% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 84 119
10th Percentile £400 £375 £438
25th Percentile £413 £429 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £618 £678 £700
90th Percentile £690 £746 £775
London median daily rate £506 £538 £586
% change year-on-year -5.81% -8.32% -2.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Test 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 1,761 2,182 3,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.32% 90.99% 91.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,138 1,545 2,281
10th Percentile £355 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
75th Percentile £678 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £815
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 22 27
10th Percentile £19.36 £20.22 £14.85
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.63 £17.56
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -20.54% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £28.98 £53.25
90th Percentile £50.75 £40.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £30.81 £28.00 £39.63
% change year-on-year +10.02% -29.34% +12.29%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Central London

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Central London

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Central London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Central London

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Central London

Test 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 Test Automation within the Central London region over the 6 months to 29 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 -8 77 £500 -9.09% 27
Southwark -3 1 - -
Test Automation
London

Test 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 5 (6.41%) Confluence
2 3 (3.85%) Apache
3 2 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.28%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.28%) CMS
4 1 (1.28%) IIS
4 1 (1.28%) nginx
4 1 (1.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.28%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (34.62%) Azure
2 16 (20.51%) AWS
3 15 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (14.10%) GitHub
5 7 (8.97%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (6.41%) Azure AKS
7 4 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (5.13%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (3.85%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.85%) GCP
8 3 (3.85%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.85%) Tricentis Tosca
9 2 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.56%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.41%) DNS
1 5 (6.41%) HTTP
2 3 (3.85%) Firewall
2 3 (3.85%) SSL
3 2 (2.56%) FTP
3 2 (2.56%) SMTP
3 2 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.28%) LAN
4 1 (1.28%) VPN
4 1 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (2.56%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.56%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (2.56%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.56%) Power BI
3 2 (2.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.28%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.28%) Big Data
4 1 (1.28%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.28%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.28%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.28%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.28%) Looker
4 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.28%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (23.08%) Selenium
2 16 (20.51%) Jenkins
3 15 (19.23%) JIRA
4 12 (15.38%) Git
5 11 (14.10%) Postman
6 9 (11.54%) REST Assured
7 4 (5.13%) Bitbucket
7 4 (5.13%) GitLab
7 4 (5.13%) JMeter
8 3 (3.85%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.85%) LoadRunner
9 2 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (2.56%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.56%) JUnit
9 2 (2.56%) Maven
9 2 (2.56%) SonarQube
9 2 (2.56%) Visual Studio Team System
10 1 (1.28%) Gatling
10 1 (1.28%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 24 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 23 (29.49%) Finance
3 12 (15.38%) Banking
4 9 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.85%) Billing
7 3 (3.85%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.56%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.56%) Retail
8 2 (2.56%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.28%) Advertising
9 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.28%) Military
9 1 (1.28%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (17.95%) Developer
2 10 (12.82%) Test Engineer
3 9 (11.54%) Analyst
3 9 (11.54%) QA Engineer
3 9 (11.54%) Senior
4 8 (10.26%) Python Engineer
4 8 (10.26%) Test Analyst
5 6 (7.69%) Consultant
5 6 (7.69%) Test Manager
6 5 (6.41%) Senior Test Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Applications Developer
7 4 (5.13%) Automation Developer
7 4 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Pensions Analyst
7 4 (5.13%) Tester
8 3 (3.85%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Lead
8 3 (3.85%) Software Consultant
9 2 (2.56%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.67%) REST
2 10 (12.82%) .NET
3 9 (11.54%) pytest
4 6 (7.69%) Kafka
4 6 (7.69%) Pandas
5 5 (6.41%) NumPy
5 5 (6.41%) React
6 4 (5.13%) OAuth
6 4 (5.13%) OAuth2
6 4 (5.13%) Playwright
7 3 (3.85%) ADO
7 3 (3.85%) OpenID
7 3 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (3.85%) XML
8 2 (2.56%) CSS
8 2 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.56%) JSON
8 2 (2.56%) Node.js
8 2 (2.56%) RESTful
9 1 (1.28%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.26%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.56%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.56%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.56%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.28%) Equities
3 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.28%) PKI
3 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.82%) Linux
2 7 (8.97%) Windows
3 3 (3.85%) Unix
4 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.28%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (41.03%) CI/CD
2 31 (39.74%) Agile
3 26 (33.33%) DevOps
4 21 (26.92%) Test Strategy
5 20 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (23.08%) Test Scripting
7 14 (17.95%) User Acceptance Testing
8 13 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 12 (15.38%) API Testing
9 12 (15.38%) Performance Testing
9 12 (15.38%) Software Testing
10 11 (14.10%) End-to-End Testing
10 11 (14.10%) Migration
11 10 (12.82%) BDD
12 9 (11.54%) Code Quality
13 8 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (10.26%) Regression Testing
14 7 (8.97%) Containerisation
14 7 (8.97%) Scrum
14 7 (8.97%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 28 (35.90%) Python
2 18 (23.08%) C#
3 17 (21.79%) SQL
4 15 (19.23%) Java
5 7 (8.97%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.56%) C++
6 2 (2.56%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.28%) ABAP
7 1 (1.28%) Bash
7 1 (1.28%) C
7 1 (1.28%) Go
7 1 (1.28%) Groovy
7 1 (1.28%) Perl
7 1 (1.28%) Ruby
7 1 (1.28%) Rust
7 1 (1.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.26%) Degree
4 3 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.28%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.28%) GIAC
6 1 (1.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (25.64%) QA
2 4 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.85%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.28%) GDPR
5 1 (1.28%) GxP
5 1 (1.28%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.28%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (12.82%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.97%) Terraform
3 3 (3.85%) Ansible
4 2 (2.56%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.28%) Argo
5 1 (1.28%) CloudHub
5 1 (1.28%) Control-M
5 1 (1.28%) Grafana
5 1 (1.28%) Istio
5 1 (1.28%) Podman
5 1 (1.28%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.28%) Puppet
5 1 (1.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.26%) Oracle
3 3 (3.85%) HP
3 3 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.56%) Databricks
4 2 (2.56%) Google
4 2 (2.56%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.56%) SAP
4 2 (2.56%) TOWER Software
4 2 (2.56%) UiPath
4 2 (2.56%) Workday
5 1 (1.28%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.28%) Cisco
5 1 (1.28%) Hitachi
5 1 (1.28%) IBM
5 1 (1.28%) Informatica
5 1 (1.28%) Pega
5 1 (1.28%) Splunk