Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Hillingdon

Automated Testing
West London > Hillingdon

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - 18
Rank change year-on-year - - -8
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hillingdon 1.30% - 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% - 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.41%
West London median daily rate £509 £341 £490
% change year-on-year +49.27% -30.41% -18.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62 27 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 80.52% 72.97% 86.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 21 62
10th Percentile £290 £400 £237
25th Percentile £341 £427 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% -7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £442 £500 £600
90th Percentile £463 £575 £650
West London median daily rate £450 £450 £530
% change year-on-year - -15.09% +2.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 3
10th Percentile £19.54 - -
25th Percentile £21.46 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £100.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -74.85% +471.43% -61.11%
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - £19.95
West London median hourly rate £25.15 £26.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -3.27% -51.63% -2.27%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Hillingdon

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

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

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

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Hillingdon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Test Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 6 December 2025. 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
Heathrow - 1 £375 -
Test Automation
West London

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hillingdon 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