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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 314 357
Rank change year-on-year -76 +43 +112
Contract jobs citing Appium 22 32 28
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.25% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.91% 1.79% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 22
10th Percentile £309 £300 £325
25th Percentile £310 £311 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £341 £436
Median % change year-on-year +23.35% -21.95% -16.90%
75th Percentile £488 £410 £470
90th Percentile £545 £444 £498
England median daily rate £420 £340 £435
% change year-on-year +23.53% -21.84% -9.38%

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 2,411 1,789 2,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.48% 14.13% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,624 1,220 1,644
10th Percentile £352 £345 £375
25th Percentile £420 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -7.08% -5.83%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £736 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 21
10th Percentile - £22.93 £25.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £31.71
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -29.41% -26.09%
75th Percentile £76.75 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £84.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -5 1 £563 +77.44% 3
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 (13.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) BlazeMeter
2 4 (18.18%) BrowserStack
3 3 (13.64%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) Google Analytics
4 2 (9.09%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (4.55%) Sentry
5 1 (4.55%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) JIRA
2 9 (40.91%) Selenium
3 7 (31.82%) GitLab
4 6 (27.27%) JMeter
5 4 (18.18%) Git
5 4 (18.18%) Postman
6 3 (13.64%) JUnit
6 3 (13.64%) REST Assured
6 3 (13.64%) TestNG
7 2 (9.09%) Cypress.io
7 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
7 2 (9.09%) LoadRunner
7 2 (9.09%) XCUITest
7 2 (9.09%) Zephyr
8 1 (4.55%) Android Studio
8 1 (4.55%) Charles Proxy
8 1 (4.55%) CircleCI
8 1 (4.55%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (4.55%) Robot Framework
8 1 (4.55%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Finance
4 4 (18.18%) Banking
5 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
6 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
7 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Test Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Mobile Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) QA Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Lead
3 4 (18.18%) QA Test Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Citrix Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) PowerShell Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Test Leader
5 2 (9.09%) Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Automation Tester
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Test Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Developer
5 2 (9.09%) JIRA Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) Quality Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Quality Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) React Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) React Native
2 4 (18.18%) WebdriverIO
3 3 (13.64%) .NET
4 2 (9.09%) NestJS
4 2 (9.09%) Playwright
4 2 (9.09%) REST
4 2 (9.09%) TanStack
5 1 (4.55%) Node.js
5 1 (4.55%) OAuth
5 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
5 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Mobile App
2 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.09%) Hedge funds
4 1 (4.55%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (4.55%) NHS
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Android
2 8 (36.36%) Apple iOS
3 3 (13.64%) Windows
4 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) CI/CD
1 15 (68.18%) Test Automation
2 10 (45.45%) Performance Testing
3 8 (36.36%) Agile
4 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (31.82%) Regression Testing
5 6 (27.27%) Case Management
5 6 (27.27%) Scrum
5 6 (27.27%) Test Scripting
6 5 (22.73%) API Testing
6 5 (22.73%) Data Management
6 5 (22.73%) DevOps
6 5 (22.73%) Integration Testing
6 5 (22.73%) Manual Testing
6 5 (22.73%) Test Strategy
7 4 (18.18%) Security Testing
7 4 (18.18%) Software Testing
8 3 (13.64%) BDD
8 3 (13.64%) Kanban
8 3 (13.64%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) Python
3 5 (22.73%) C#
3 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
5 2 (9.09%) Bash
5 2 (9.09%) Kotlin
5 2 (9.09%) Swift
6 1 (4.55%) C
6 1 (4.55%) C++
6 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.55%) Rust
6 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (59.09%) QA
2 4 (18.18%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Citrix
1 3 (13.64%) Optimizely
2 2 (9.09%) Micro Focus
2 2 (9.09%) OpenText
3 1 (4.55%) Avaloq
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Splunk