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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 328 355
Rank change year-on-year -85 +27 +93
Contract jobs citing Appium 23 22 44
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.94% 1.11% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 36
10th Percentile £354 £230 £350
25th Percentile £393 £300 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £400 £465
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% -13.98% -2.62%
75th Percentile £480 £444 £525
90th Percentile £556 £534 £550
England median daily rate £425 £413 £468
% change year-on-year +3.03% -11.76% -1.58%

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 2,447 1,978 2,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.70% 15.42% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,603 1,333 1,723
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £671
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 26
10th Percentile - £24.49 £23.63
25th Percentile £18.75 £33.70 £27.30
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -1.16% -42.67%
75th Percentile £73.00 £52.50 £70.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £73.88 £71.56
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -16 3 £500 -24.24% 1
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 (13.04%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) AWS
3 7 (30.43%) BrowserStack
4 4 (17.39%) GitHub
4 4 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) GCP
5 3 (13.04%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.35%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 11 (47.83%) Selenium
2 9 (39.13%) JIRA
3 8 (34.78%) REST Assured
4 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
4 5 (21.74%) Postman
4 5 (21.74%) TestNG
5 4 (17.39%) JMeter
5 4 (17.39%) XCUITest
6 3 (13.04%) Cypress.io
6 3 (13.04%) Git
6 3 (13.04%) JUnit
6 3 (13.04%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (13.04%) LoadRunner
6 3 (13.04%) Zephyr
7 2 (8.70%) GitLab
7 2 (8.70%) Selendroid
8 1 (4.35%) Android Studio
8 1 (4.35%) MonkeyTalk
8 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (4.35%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (30.43%) Finance
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Banking
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) QA Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Lead
2 4 (17.39%) Quality Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Test Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Citrix Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Mobile Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) PowerShell Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) QA Test Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Test Leader
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Test Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) JIRA Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) React Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) Playwright
2 4 (17.39%) REST
3 3 (13.04%) .NET
4 2 (8.70%) NestJS
4 2 (8.70%) React Native
4 2 (8.70%) TanStack
5 1 (4.35%) Android SDK
5 1 (4.35%) Gherkin
5 1 (4.35%) iOS SDK
5 1 (4.35%) Node.js
5 1 (4.35%) OAuth
5 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Mobile App
2 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Hedge funds
3 2 (8.70%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (8.70%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Android
1 8 (34.78%) Apple iOS
2 3 (13.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
2 13 (56.52%) Test Automation
3 9 (39.13%) DevOps
4 8 (34.78%) End-to-End Testing
5 7 (30.43%) AI
5 7 (30.43%) Performance Testing
5 7 (30.43%) Test Strategy
6 6 (26.09%) Generative AI
7 4 (17.39%) Agile
7 4 (17.39%) API Testing
7 4 (17.39%) BDD
7 4 (17.39%) Scrum
7 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (13.04%) Case Management
8 3 (13.04%) Functional Testing
8 3 (13.04%) Microservices
8 3 (13.04%) Operational Acceptance Testing
8 3 (13.04%) Regression Testing
8 3 (13.04%) SDET
8 3 (13.04%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Java
2 4 (17.39%) C#
2 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
2 4 (17.39%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) Kotlin
3 3 (13.04%) Swift
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) Korn
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (52.17%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
1 3 (13.04%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Citrix
1 3 (13.04%) Micro Focus
1 3 (13.04%) OpenText
2 2 (8.70%) Perfecto Mobile
3 1 (4.35%) HP