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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 328 378
Rank change year-on-year -45 +50 +115
Contract jobs citing Appium 15 31 23
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.10% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.66% 1.62% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 19
10th Percentile £309 £329 -
25th Percentile £320 £340 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £341 £400
Median % change year-on-year +23.17% -14.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £500 £380 £455
90th Percentile - £421 £480
England median daily rate £438 £340 £425
% change year-on-year +28.68% -20.00% -11.46%

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 2,283 1,918 2,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.46% 13.88% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,562 1,250 1,727
10th Percentile £356 £345 £381
25th Percentile £420 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £570
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -6.14% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 19
10th Percentile £42.63 £22.25 £25.68
25th Percentile £45.19 £25.63 £33.75
Median hourly rate £73.25 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.26% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £95.00 £77.19 £64.38
90th Percentile £102.50 £87.88 £73.67
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +1.96%

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 28 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Appium in London

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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Sentry
2 4 (26.67%) BlazeMeter
3 3 (20.00%) Google Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Azure
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) BrowserStack
5 1 (6.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) GitLab
1 6 (40.00%) Postman
2 5 (33.33%) Charles Proxy
2 5 (33.33%) Katalon Studio
2 5 (33.33%) Selenium
2 5 (33.33%) XCUITest
3 4 (26.67%) IntelliJ
4 3 (20.00%) JIRA
4 3 (20.00%) JMeter
4 3 (20.00%) WebDriver
5 2 (13.33%) NUnit
6 1 (6.67%) Android Studio
6 1 (6.67%) CircleCI
6 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
6 1 (6.67%) Git
6 1 (6.67%) HP UFT
6 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
6 1 (6.67%) Robot Framework
6 1 (6.67%) Subversion
6 1 (6.67%) TestComplete
General
1 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Test Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) QA Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Quality Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Tester
5 2 (13.33%) Automation Tester
5 2 (13.33%) Mobile Tester
6 1 (6.67%) Applications Tester
6 1 (6.67%) QA Automation Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) QA Test Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) QA Tester
6 1 (6.67%) Telecoms Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Telecoms Test Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Web Services
2 4 (26.67%) WebdriverIO
3 3 (20.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Mobile App
2 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (6.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (80.00%) Android
2 11 (73.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 11 (73.33%) Test Scripting
3 10 (66.67%) Agile
4 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (53.33%) Regression Testing
6 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (40.00%) Process Improvement
6 6 (40.00%) Test Strategy
7 5 (33.33%) API Testing
7 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
7 5 (33.33%) Functional Programming
7 5 (33.33%) Product Requirements
7 5 (33.33%) Software Deployment
7 5 (33.33%) User Experience
8 4 (26.67%) Case Management
8 4 (26.67%) Data Management
8 4 (26.67%) Integration Testing
8 4 (26.67%) Performance Testing
9 3 (20.00%) Manual Testing
9 3 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 5 (33.33%) Kotlin
1 5 (33.33%) Swift
2 4 (26.67%) C#
2 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
3 3 (20.00%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) Bash
5 1 (6.67%) C
5 1 (6.67%) C++
5 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
1 5 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (80.00%) QA
2 8 (53.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Splunk
2 3 (20.00%) Optimizely
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) Avaloq