QA Automation Tester Contracts in London

Automation QA Tester
England > London

The median Automation QA Tester daily rate in London is £450, 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 350 390 488
Rank change year-on-year +40 +98 +106
Contract jobs requiring a QA Automation Tester 3 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.024% 0.006% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.006% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £220
25th Percentile £425 £225 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £250 £330
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -24.24% -28.26%
75th Percentile £475 £275 £463
90th Percentile - - £628
England median daily rate £420 £315 £400
% change year-on-year +33.33% -21.25% +10.34%

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 Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Tester in London

QA Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Automation Tester in London

QA 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 QA Automation Tester 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 Tester
England

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

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

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) JMeter
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) SSH
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting

QA 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
3 1 (33.33%) Gradle
3 1 (33.33%) JMeter
3 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
3 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Nightwatchjs
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) Epics
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Test Assurance
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk