QA Automation Contracts in the City of London

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 172 184
Rank change year-on-year +46 +12 -35
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 4 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.18% 0.028% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.031% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £475 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £700 £563
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +24.44% +8.70%
75th Percentile £519 - £734
90th Percentile £530 - £751
Central London median daily rate £500 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,972 3,266 3,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.46% 91.46% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,394 2,203 2,946
10th Percentile £352 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £688
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 43
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.10 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.61 £22.63
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.10
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in the City of London

QA Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Automation in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for QA Automation in the City of London

QA Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Functional Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) OWASP
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management
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