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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 30 27
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 -13
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 7 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 8.54% 3.23% 4.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.46% 3.36% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £321 £418
25th Percentile £380 £353 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £410 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.51% -18.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £510 £483 £594
90th Percentile £587 £523 £613
South London median daily rate £451 £464 £500
% change year-on-year -2.70% -7.25% -16.67%

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 74 119 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 90.24% 95.97% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 81 119
10th Percentile £425 £377 £450
25th Percentile £463 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -5.09% -1.82%
75th Percentile £585 £575 £638
90th Percentile £700 £630 £725
South London median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £23.00 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £50.42
% change year-on-year -32.60% -53.39% +13.79%

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 31 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%) 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
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
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 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) Postman
1 3 (42.86%) REST Assured
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical 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%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Security Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Tester
3 1 (14.29%) QA Consultant
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%) Security Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (14.29%) Keycloak
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) API Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) CRM
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 2 (28.57%) Data Deduplication
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) ERP
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) SDET
3 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Epics
4 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CREST Certified
2 1 (14.29%) GIAC
2 1 (14.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) 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