QA Automation Engineer Contracts in London

Automation QA Engineer
England > London

The median Automation QA Engineer daily rate in London is £665, 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 346 385 470
Rank change year-on-year +39 +85 +98
Contract jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 7 6 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.056% 0.034% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.036% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 22
10th Percentile £624 £460 £367
25th Percentile £636 £475 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £665 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year +33.00% -23.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £686 £513 £738
90th Percentile £695 £520 -
England median daily rate £550 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 - -

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%

QA Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Engineer in London

QA Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Automation Engineer in London

QA Automation Engineer
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 QA Automation Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
South London - 1 - -
QA Automation Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, QA Automation Engineer 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 QA Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) QA
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Test Scripting
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) Git
4 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
4 2 (28.57%) Kafka
4 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
4 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
4 2 (28.57%) QA Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Appium
4 2 (28.57%) pytest
4 2 (28.57%) JUnit
4 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
4 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Android
4 2 (28.57%) TestNG
4 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
4 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (28.57%) BrowserStack
4 2 (28.57%) Sauce Labs
4 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Epics

QA Automation Engineer 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 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) BrowserStack
2 2 (28.57%) Sauce Labs
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Appium
2 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) JUnit
2 2 (28.57%) TestNG
3 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 1 (14.29%) Gradle
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) JMeter
3 1 (14.29%) Postman
3 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
3 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Front Office
1 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) pytest
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Android
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Test Scripting
3 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
3 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) QA Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) API Development
4 1 (14.29%) API Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Automated Trading
4 1 (14.29%) Data Validation
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google
85 QA Automation Engineer jobs in England