Automation Test Lead Contracts in London

Test Automation Leader
England > London

The median Test Automation Leader daily rate in London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 385 471
Rank change year-on-year +41 +86 +106
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Test Lead 9 6 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.072% 0.034% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.036% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 17
10th Percentile £365 £408 £385
25th Percentile £419 £419 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +7.62%
75th Percentile - £576 £650
90th Percentile £488 £579 £693
England median daily rate £450 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% -13.04% +16.16%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Automation Test Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Automation Test Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Test Lead in London

Automation Test Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Test Lead in London

Automation Test Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Automation Test Lead in London

Automation Test Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Automation Test Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Automation Test Lead in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (77.78%) JMeter
2 7 (77.78%) AWS
3 5 (55.56%) Test Scripting
3 5 (55.56%) API Testing
4 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) DevOps
4 4 (44.44%) Performance Testing
4 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
4 4 (44.44%) JIRA
5 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (33.33%) Law
5 3 (33.33%) Kafka
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 3 (33.33%) Cypress.io
5 3 (33.33%) Software Delivery
5 3 (33.33%) PySpark
5 3 (33.33%) Component Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (33.33%) StreamSets
5 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 3 (33.33%) Data Lake
6 2 (22.22%) Azure
6 2 (22.22%) Groovy
6 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
6 2 (22.22%) SQL
6 2 (22.22%) Python

Automation Test Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) JMeter
2 4 (44.44%) JIRA
3 3 (33.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (11.11%) LoadRunner
4 1 (11.11%) Postman
4 1 (11.11%) REST Assured
4 1 (11.11%) Selenium
4 1 (11.11%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (33.33%) Law
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Kafka
1 3 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (11.11%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (55.56%) API Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Test Scripting
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Performance Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Component Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Software Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Agile
6 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Scrum
6 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Groovy
1 2 (22.22%) Python
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) StreamSets
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce