QA Automation Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring QA Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 123 176
Rank change year-on-year +7 +53 +9
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 3 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.18% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.20% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £460 -
25th Percentile £560 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -28.57% +64.71%
75th Percentile £580 £519 -
90th Percentile - £530 -
Central London median daily rate £570 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +14.00% -13.04% +35.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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 (33.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP CRM
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Gatling
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Hamcrest
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Billing
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) CRM Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) SAP CRM Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
1 1 (33.33%) pytest
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Test Assurance
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) ABAP
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Informatica
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk