Test Automation Contracts in Croydon

Automated Testing
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test 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 20 31 28
Rank change year-on-year +11 -3 -13
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 7 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 7.69% 2.07% 5.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.43% 2.16% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile - £325 £470
25th Percentile - £363 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% -29.17% -
75th Percentile £495 £488 £625
90th Percentile £504 £525 £655
South London median daily rate £413 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -12.23% -6.00% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83 139 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 91.21% 95.86% 96.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 85 137
10th Percentile £425 £363 £450
25th Percentile £463 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £650
90th Percentile £678 £630 £725
South London median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Median hourly rate - £23.50 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
% change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -50.54%

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 1 May 2025.

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 (14.29%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (28.57%) Power Automate
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
1 2 (28.57%) PowerApps
1 2 (28.57%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
1 4 (57.14%) Postman
1 4 (57.14%) REST Assured
2 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 3 (42.86%) Selenium
3 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
4 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Test Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer in Test
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Tester
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (14.29%) Keycloak
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) API Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Test Scripting
3 3 (42.86%) SDET
3 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) CRM
4 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
4 2 (28.57%) Data Deduplication
4 2 (28.57%) ERP
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Workflow
5 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (14.29%) API Development
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (14.29%) Epics
5 1 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) HAProxy
1 1 (14.29%) Kibana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
1 1 (14.29%) Rancher
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
1 2 (28.57%) SAP