Test Automation Contracts in Central London

Automated Testing
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 45 47
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 107 169 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.41% 4.48% 5.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.87% 4.90% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 119 179
10th Percentile £375 £455 £399
25th Percentile £440 £512 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £588
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% - +6.82%
75th Percentile £688 £694 £716
90th Percentile £750 £770 £775
London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +11.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Test 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 2,197 3,446 4,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.60% 91.36% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,565 2,330 3,170
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.39% +9.48%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 29 43
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.20 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £18.50 £22.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £30.41 £53.75 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £65.10
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 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 +4 104 £550 -6.38% 16
Southwark +5 1 £500 +8.11%
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 4 (3.74%) nginx
2 3 (2.80%) Confluence
3 2 (1.87%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.87%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.87%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.93%) CMS
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Endur
2 1 (0.93%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.93%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 24 (22.43%) AWS
2 17 (15.89%) Azure
3 16 (14.95%) GitHub
4 9 (8.41%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.61%) Amazon S3
5 6 (5.61%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (4.67%) GCP
6 5 (4.67%) Serverless
7 4 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (3.74%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.80%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.80%) NuGet
9 2 (1.87%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 2 (1.87%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.74%) Firewall
2 1 (0.93%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.93%) MQTT
2 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.48%) MySQL
2 7 (6.54%) NoSQL
2 7 (6.54%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.74%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.74%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.74%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.87%) KDB
5 2 (1.87%) Power BI
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.93%) Kdb+
6 1 (0.93%) Metadata
6 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (35.51%) Selenium
2 18 (16.82%) Cucumber
3 16 (14.95%) Jenkins
4 15 (14.02%) Git
4 15 (14.02%) Postman
5 10 (9.35%) JIRA
5 10 (9.35%) WebDriver
6 9 (8.41%) Bitbucket
6 9 (8.41%) SpecFlow
7 8 (7.48%) JUnit
7 8 (7.48%) REST Assured
8 7 (6.54%) TestNG
9 6 (5.61%) Appium
9 6 (5.61%) Cypress.io
9 6 (5.61%) JMeter
9 6 (5.61%) Maven
10 5 (4.67%) Mockito
11 4 (3.74%) GitLab
11 4 (3.74%) SoapUI
11 4 (3.74%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (24.30%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.76%) Finance
3 16 (14.95%) Banking
4 8 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.54%) Prime Brokerage
6 6 (5.61%) Back Office
6 6 (5.61%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.67%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.74%) Front Office
9 3 (2.80%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (2.80%) Retail
9 3 (2.80%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.93%) Aviation
11 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.93%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (28.04%) Developer
2 22 (20.56%) Senior
3 16 (14.95%) Tester
4 13 (12.15%) Analyst
5 11 (10.28%) Automation Tester
5 11 (10.28%) Test Analyst
6 8 (7.48%) Java Developer
6 8 (7.48%) Test Engineer
7 7 (6.54%) QA Engineer
7 7 (6.54%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.61%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (5.61%) Senior Test Analyst
9 5 (4.67%) Test Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) Full Stack Developer
10 4 (3.74%) Lead
10 4 (3.74%) PHP Developer
10 4 (3.74%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (3.74%) Senior Tester
11 3 (2.80%) QA Tester
11 3 (2.80%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.95%) REST
2 10 (9.35%) .NET
3 8 (7.48%) JAX-RS
4 7 (6.54%) Kafka
4 7 (6.54%) Spring
4 7 (6.54%) Spring Boot
5 6 (5.61%) AngularJS
5 6 (5.61%) CSS
5 6 (5.61%) HTML
5 6 (5.61%) Laravel
5 6 (5.61%) RESTful
6 5 (4.67%) .NET Framework
6 5 (4.67%) Gherkin
6 5 (4.67%) Web Services
7 4 (3.74%) .NET Core
7 4 (3.74%) Playwright
8 3 (2.80%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.80%) pytest
8 3 (2.80%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.41%) Equities
2 4 (3.74%) Algorithms
2 4 (3.74%) Fixed Income
2 4 (3.74%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.74%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.80%) Derivative
3 3 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.87%) Life Science
4 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) BYOD
5 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.93%) Genomics
5 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.93%) Machine to Machine
5 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.15%) Linux
2 10 (9.35%) Unix
3 8 (7.48%) Windows
4 5 (4.67%) Android
5 4 (3.74%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.87%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.87%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (36.45%) CI/CD
2 37 (34.58%) Agile
3 22 (20.56%) DevOps
4 20 (18.69%) Software Testing
5 18 (16.82%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (14.95%) TDD
6 16 (14.95%) Test Strategy
7 15 (14.02%) SDET
7 15 (14.02%) Test Scripting
8 13 (12.15%) Microservices
9 12 (11.21%) API Testing
9 12 (11.21%) BDD
9 12 (11.21%) Performance Testing
10 10 (9.35%) Analytics
11 9 (8.41%) Scrum
11 9 (8.41%) Unit Testing
12 8 (7.48%) Continuous Deployment
12 8 (7.48%) Integration Testing
12 8 (7.48%) Migration
13 7 (6.54%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 47 (43.93%) Java
2 29 (27.10%) SQL
3 27 (25.23%) C#
4 23 (21.50%) Python
5 16 (14.95%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.48%) PHP
7 6 (5.61%) C++
8 5 (4.67%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.74%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.80%) Bash
10 3 (2.80%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.87%) Rust
12 1 (0.93%) Bicep
12 1 (0.93%) Perl
12 1 (0.93%) Ruby
12 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.95%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.54%) ISTQB
4 6 (5.61%) Degree
5 5 (4.67%) ISEB
6 2 (1.87%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.87%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.87%) PMP
7 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.93%) PhD
7 1 (0.93%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (24.30%) QA
2 6 (5.61%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.80%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.87%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.87%) WCAG
5 1 (0.93%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (14.02%) Docker
2 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.93%) iptables
Systems Management
1 11 (10.28%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.61%) Terraform
3 4 (3.74%) Ansible
4 2 (1.87%) Grafana
4 2 (1.87%) Kustomize
4 2 (1.87%) Packer
4 2 (1.87%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.93%) Consul
5 1 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.93%) Graylog
5 1 (0.93%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.93%) Nagios
5 1 (0.93%) Nessus
5 1 (0.93%) Opsgenie
5 1 (0.93%) PingFederate
5 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.93%) Puppet
5 1 (0.93%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 11 (10.28%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.48%) Oracle
3 3 (2.80%) Google
3 3 (2.80%) Splunk
4 2 (1.87%) IBM
4 2 (1.87%) Micro Focus
4 2 (1.87%) OpenLink
4 2 (1.87%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.93%) Adobe
5 1 (0.93%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.93%) Dell
5 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.93%) Informatica
5 1 (0.93%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.93%) PagerDuty
5 1 (0.93%) Perfecto Mobile
5 1 (0.93%) Qualtrics
5 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.93%) SnapLogic
5 1 (0.93%) Veracode