Automation Tester Contracts in London

Automation Tester
England > London

The median Automation Tester daily rate in London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 430 480
Rank change year-on-year +83 +50 -90
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 48 72 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.27% 0.27% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.28% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 59 98
10th Percentile £401 £413 £344
25th Percentile £416 £459 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.05% +4.41%
75th Percentile £688 £550 £525
90th Percentile £699 £610 £583
England median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,599 25,655 37,115
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 95.29% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,582 27,076
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £677
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 289 450
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.05
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in London

Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Tester in London

Automation Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Tester in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Tester in London

Automation Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Automation Tester in London.

Hourly rate trend for Automation Tester in London

Automation Tester
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 Automation Tester within the London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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 +50 11 £675 +28.57%
Automation Tester
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Automation Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 48 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 23 (47.92%) Java
3 19 (39.58%) Banking
4 15 (31.25%) Selenium
4 15 (31.25%) C#
5 13 (27.08%) Agile
6 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
7 11 (22.92%) QA
8 10 (20.83%) Cucumber
8 10 (20.83%) JavaScript
8 10 (20.83%) Python
9 9 (18.75%) Investment Banking
9 9 (18.75%) BDD
9 9 (18.75%) Cypress.io
10 8 (16.67%) AWS
10 8 (16.67%) API Testing
10 8 (16.67%) Equities
11 7 (14.58%) Front Office
11 7 (14.58%) Prime Brokerage
11 7 (14.58%) Test Strategy
11 7 (14.58%) Jenkins
12 6 (12.50%) TypeScript
12 6 (12.50%) Microservices
12 6 (12.50%) SQL
12 6 (12.50%) Scrum
13 5 (10.42%) Wholesale Banking
13 5 (10.42%) Performance Testing
13 5 (10.42%) Back Office
13 5 (10.42%) Regression Testing
13 5 (10.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

Automation Tester 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.67%) AWS
2 5 (10.42%) Azure
3 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.17%) GitHub
3 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.08%) Azure AKS
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.08%) Figma
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.08%) SaaS
4 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.08%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 15 (31.25%) Selenium
2 10 (20.83%) Cucumber
3 9 (18.75%) Cypress.io
4 7 (14.58%) Jenkins
5 5 (10.42%) Postman
5 5 (10.42%) REST Assured
5 5 (10.42%) WebDriver
6 4 (8.33%) JIRA
6 4 (8.33%) SpecFlow
7 3 (6.25%) Git
7 3 (6.25%) JUnit
7 3 (6.25%) SoapUI
7 3 (6.25%) TestNG
8 2 (4.17%) JMeter
8 2 (4.17%) TestComplete
9 1 (2.08%) Gerrit
9 1 (2.08%) Maven
9 1 (2.08%) NUnit
9 1 (2.08%) Subversion
9 1 (2.08%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (39.58%) Banking
2 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (18.75%) Investment Banking
4 7 (14.58%) Front Office
4 7 (14.58%) Prime Brokerage
5 5 (10.42%) Back Office
5 5 (10.42%) Wholesale Banking
6 4 (8.33%) Finance
6 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.08%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.42%) REST
2 3 (6.25%) ADO
2 3 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 3 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (6.25%) Gherkin
2 3 (6.25%) pytest
2 3 (6.25%) Web Services
3 2 (4.17%) .NET
3 2 (4.17%) Jest
3 2 (4.17%) React
4 1 (2.08%) Chai
4 1 (2.08%) CSS
4 1 (2.08%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.08%) JSON
4 1 (2.08%) Node.js
4 1 (2.08%) Playwright
4 1 (2.08%) PySpark
4 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Equities
2 5 (10.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (8.33%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (27.08%) Agile
3 9 (18.75%) BDD
4 8 (16.67%) API Testing
5 7 (14.58%) Test Strategy
6 6 (12.50%) Microservices
6 6 (12.50%) Scrum
7 5 (10.42%) CI/CD
7 5 (10.42%) DevOps
7 5 (10.42%) Performance Testing
7 5 (10.42%) Regression Testing
8 4 (8.33%) Fintech
8 4 (8.33%) Functional Testing
8 4 (8.33%) Non-Functional Testing
8 4 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (8.33%) SDET
8 4 (8.33%) Test Planning
9 3 (6.25%) Requirements Analysis
9 3 (6.25%) TDD
9 3 (6.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (47.92%) Java
2 15 (31.25%) C#
3 10 (20.83%) JavaScript
3 10 (20.83%) Python
4 6 (12.50%) SQL
4 6 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.08%) Groovy
5 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.08%) Degree
3 1 (2.08%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.92%) QA
2 3 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (4.17%) Virgin Media
2 1 (2.08%) Adobe
2 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.08%) Qualtrics
2 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.08%) Splunk