Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Heathrow

Automated Testing
Hillingdon > Heathrow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Heathrow requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - -11
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Heathrow 10.00% - 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.11% - 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.41%
Hillingdon median daily rate £375 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -7.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Heathrow

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 Heathrow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9 14 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Heathrow 90.00% 63.64% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 42
10th Percentile £325 £172 £400
25th Percentile £356 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% -17.39% +9.52%
75th Percentile £433 £500 £647
90th Percentile £459 £570 £700
Hillingdon median daily rate £400 £450 £513
% change year-on-year -11.06% -12.20% +7.89%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Heathrow

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Heathrow

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Heathrow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Heathrow citing Test Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Heathrow citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Heathrow 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk