Test Automation Contracts in Croydon

Automated Testing
South London > Croydon

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 28 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 -13 -8
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 3 9 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 2.10% 5.11% 15.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 5.29% 16.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 23
10th Percentile £325 £470 £340
25th Percentile £363 £538 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% - +43.71%
75th Percentile £488 £625 £638
90th Percentile £525 £655 £700
South London median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 137 170 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 95.80% 96.59% 93.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 137 121
10th Percentile £363 £450 £355
25th Percentile £425 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £638
90th Percentile £630 £725 £700
South London median daily rate £500 £540 £533
% change year-on-year -7.41% +1.41% +1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £17.00 - -
25th Percentile £17.13 - -
Median hourly rate £23.50 - -
75th Percentile £25.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £23.50 £23.46 £47.44
% change year-on-year +0.17% -50.54% +2.20%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Croydon

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Croydon

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Croydon over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Croydon

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) IPv4
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer in Test
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Business Case
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Consul
2 1 (33.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft