QA Automation Contracts in London

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 454 555
Rank change year-on-year +86 +101 -114
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 14 29 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.079% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.089% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 40
10th Percentile £413 £330 £393
25th Percentile £441 £431 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £481
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +9.09% +10.63%
75th Percentile £700 £575 £592
90th Percentile £723 £700 £678
England median daily rate £513 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% +10.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

QA Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,694 23,906 35,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.70% 90.95% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,256 17,189 26,035
10th Percentile £340 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 270 421
10th Percentile £15.97 £18.45 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.19 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £80.23 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in London

QA Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Automation in London

QA Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Automation in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Automation in London

QA Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Automation in London

QA Automation
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 8 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 +45 4 £500 -13.04%
QA Automation
England

QA Automation
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 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
2 1 (7.14%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (7.14%) BrowserStack
2 1 (7.14%) Firebase
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (7.14%) Sauce Labs
2 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 7 (50.00%) Selenium
2 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
3 4 (28.57%) Git
3 4 (28.57%) Postman
4 3 (21.43%) Appium
4 3 (21.43%) Cypress.io
4 3 (21.43%) JMeter
5 2 (14.29%) JIRA
5 2 (14.29%) REST Assured
5 2 (14.29%) SpecFlow
5 2 (14.29%) WebDriver
6 1 (7.14%) Fiddler
6 1 (7.14%) Log4Net
6 1 (7.14%) Maven
6 1 (7.14%) Mockito
6 1 (7.14%) NUnit
6 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
6 1 (7.14%) Subversion
6 1 (7.14%) TestNG
General
1 5 (35.71%) Banking
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.14%) Front Office
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) QA Automation Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) QA Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Automation Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) QA Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Tester
3 2 (14.29%) Automation Tester
3 2 (14.29%) Java Automation Tester
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) QA Leader
3 2 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Architect
4 1 (7.14%) E-Commerce Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Tester
4 1 (7.14%) QA Automation Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) Gherkin
1 2 (14.29%) Playwright
1 2 (14.29%) REST
1 2 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) Middleware
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
2 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) SAML
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.14%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (7.14%) Derivative
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Fat Client
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 8 (57.14%) BDD
3 5 (35.71%) SDET
4 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Microservices
4 4 (28.57%) Software Testing
4 4 (28.57%) TDD
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (21.43%) Fintech
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Testing
6 2 (14.29%) API Testing
6 2 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (14.29%) ETL
6 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
6 2 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
6 2 (14.29%) OO
7 1 (7.14%) Migration
7 1 (7.14%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 3 (21.43%) C#
5 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (14.29%) SQL
6 1 (7.14%) Go
6 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
6 1 (7.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.14%) ISEB
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (21.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle
1 1 (7.14%) Perfecto Mobile