Test Automation Contracts in Hounslow

Automated Testing
West London > Hounslow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hounslow 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 10 25 16
Rank change year-on-year +15 -9 +1
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 8 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hounslow 11.76% 2.34% 8.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% 2.44% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile £384 £239 £458
25th Percentile £387 £259 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £313 £550
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -43.18% -
75th Percentile £401 £359 £596
90th Percentile £484 £376 £671
West London median daily rate £392 £375 £550
% change year-on-year +4.53% -31.82% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £72.25
25th Percentile - - £75.63
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
West London median hourly rate - - £85.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hounslow

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 Hounslow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64 123 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hounslow 94.12% 96.09% 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 84 65
10th Percentile £253 £179 £350
25th Percentile £375 £270 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £411 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.74% -21.67% +2.44%
75th Percentile £450 £546 £596
90th Percentile £547 £593 £670
West London median daily rate £400 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -15.79% -13.64% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 41
10th Percentile £20.94 £52.38 £35.50
25th Percentile £25.16 £54.06 £56.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.67% -7.69% +202.33%
75th Percentile £54.75 £65.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £59.70 £66.40 £85.00
West London median hourly rate £22.27 £30.16 £64.00
% change year-on-year -26.16% -52.88% +176.58%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hounslow

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hounslow.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Hounslow

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hounslow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Hounslow.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Hounslow

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Hounslow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Hounslow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Hounslow

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hounslow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Hounslow.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Hounslow

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Hounslow

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 Hounslow region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Feltham - 1 £665 -
Test Automation
West London

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hounslow 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) BrowserStack
2 1 (12.50%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) JUnit
1 7 (87.50%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) Appium
3 1 (12.50%) HP UFT
3 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Postman
3 1 (12.50%) Robot Framework
General
1 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) QA Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Software Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) Playwright
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) SAPUI5
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) Manual Testing
2 7 (87.50%) Regression Testing
2 7 (87.50%) Security Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
3 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (37.50%) SDLC
6 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
7 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
7 1 (12.50%) Analytics
7 1 (12.50%) API Testing
7 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
7 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 1 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
7 1 (12.50%) Software Architecture
7 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
7 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (12.50%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) ISTQB
2 5 (62.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (62.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe
1 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) SAP