Test Automation Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Automated Testing
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 12 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 4.55% 1.82% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.13% 1.89% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £254 - -
25th Percentile £290 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.21% - -
75th Percentile £437 - -
90th Percentile £479 - -
Central London median daily rate £525 £530 £575
% change year-on-year -0.94% -7.83% -7.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

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 the City of Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39 53 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 88.64% 96.36% 75.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 27 33
10th Percentile £350 £393 £353
25th Percentile £450 £454 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £750
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -30.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £622 £588 £938
90th Percentile £708 £788 £1,070
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £19.59 - -
25th Percentile £20.68 - -
Median hourly rate £22.49 - £26.00
75th Percentile £24.30 - -
90th Percentile £25.39 - -
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -20.71% +27.27% -45.54%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Test Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 21 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in the City of Westminster

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 21 November 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
Mayfair -4 1 £488 -18.75%
Paddington - 1 £230 -
Test Automation
Central London

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) WebEx
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix