Appium Contract Job Trends in London

Appium
England > London

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 342 353
Rank change year-on-year -59 +11 +99
Contract jobs citing Appium 26 23 41
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.06% 1.11% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 31
10th Percentile £330 £248 £363
25th Percentile £393 £309 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £413 £480
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -14.06% +7.87%
75th Percentile £550 £444 £525
90th Percentile £566 £513 £575
England median daily rate £425 £419 £480
% change year-on-year +1.49% -12.76% +9.40%

All Development Application Skills
London

Appium falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,463 2,075 2,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.45% 15.31% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,593 1,404 1,685
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £435 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 25
10th Percentile - £25.52 £23.30
25th Percentile £18.75 £32.13 £25.99
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -46.43%
75th Percentile £72.88 £59.69 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £69.63 £71.63
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%

Appium
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Appium job vacancy trend in London

Appium
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Appium.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Appium

Appium
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Appium in London over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Appium in London

Appium
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Appium within the London region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
Central London -15 4 £563 -14.77%
Appium
England

Appium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (34.62%) AWS
3 8 (30.77%) BrowserStack
4 6 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (23.08%) GitHub
4 6 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (19.23%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (11.54%) GCP
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (3.85%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 14 (53.85%) Selenium
2 9 (34.62%) JIRA
2 9 (34.62%) REST Assured
3 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 6 (23.08%) TestNG
4 5 (19.23%) Postman
5 4 (15.38%) JMeter
5 4 (15.38%) XCUITest
6 3 (11.54%) Cypress.io
6 3 (11.54%) Git
6 3 (11.54%) JUnit
6 3 (11.54%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (11.54%) LoadRunner
6 3 (11.54%) Zephyr
7 2 (7.69%) Selendroid
8 1 (3.85%) Android Studio
8 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
8 1 (3.85%) GitLab
8 1 (3.85%) MonkeyTalk
8 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (30.77%) Finance
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) QA Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Lead
2 4 (15.38%) Quality Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Test Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Citrix Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Mobile Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) PowerShell Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) QA Test Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Technical Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Technical Test Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Test Leader
3 3 (11.54%) Test Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Java Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) JIRA Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (7.69%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) Playwright
2 4 (15.38%) REST
3 3 (11.54%) .NET
4 2 (7.69%) NestJS
4 2 (7.69%) React Native
4 2 (7.69%) TanStack
5 1 (3.85%) Android SDK
5 1 (3.85%) Gherkin
5 1 (3.85%) iOS SDK
5 1 (3.85%) Node.js
5 1 (3.85%) OAuth
5 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Mobile App
2 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 4 (15.38%) Virtual Team
3 2 (7.69%) Hedge funds
3 2 (7.69%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Android
1 10 (38.46%) Apple iOS
2 3 (11.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) CI/CD
2 16 (61.54%) Test Automation
3 13 (50.00%) DevOps
4 11 (42.31%) AI
4 11 (42.31%) Test Strategy
5 8 (30.77%) End-to-End Testing
6 7 (26.92%) BDD
6 7 (26.92%) Generative AI
6 7 (26.92%) Performance Testing
6 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (23.08%) Agile
8 5 (19.23%) API Testing
9 4 (15.38%) Intelligent Automation
9 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (15.38%) Regression Testing
9 4 (15.38%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 4 (15.38%) Scrum
9 4 (15.38%) SDET
9 4 (15.38%) Software Testing
9 4 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (11.54%) C#
2 3 (11.54%) Kotlin
2 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.54%) Python
2 3 (11.54%) Swift
3 1 (3.85%) Korn
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (61.54%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
2 3 (11.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Citrix
1 3 (11.54%) Guidewire
1 3 (11.54%) Micro Focus
1 3 (11.54%) OpenText
1 3 (11.54%) Perfecto Mobile
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) HP