QA Automation Contract Job Trends in East London

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring QA Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in East London 0.93% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £381 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £418 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £350 £568 £700
% change year-on-year -38.33% -18.93% +33.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89 99 222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 83.18% 92.52% 92.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 80 193
10th Percentile £389 £249 £292
25th Percentile £450 £400 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.23%
75th Percentile £666 £591 £650
90th Percentile £760 £638 £770
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 15
10th Percentile £20.61 £14.66 £11.95
25th Percentile £22.73 £24.66 £13.07
Median hourly rate £25.39 £28.60 £23.32
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +22.64% +3.71%
75th Percentile £29.04 £37.00 £31.07
90th Percentile £32.86 £38.80 £38.28
London median hourly rate £35.50 £36.20 £30.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% +18.67% -19.47%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QA Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East London.

QA Automation job vacancy trend in East London

QA Automation
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing QA Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing QA Automation

QA Automation
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation within the East London region over the 6 months to 21 March 2026. 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
Tower Hamlets - 1 £400 -
QA Automation
London

QA Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA