QA Automation Contracts in London

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring QA Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 377 461
Rank change year-on-year +44 +84 +84
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 20 14 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.079% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.089% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 23
10th Percentile £448 £413 £338
25th Percentile £560 £441 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile - £700 £569
90th Percentile £605 £790 £700
England median daily rate £535 £525 £488
% change year-on-year +1.88% +7.69% +2.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

QA Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Central London +3 3 £570 +14.00%
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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (5.00%) SAP CRM
2 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) BrowserStack
2 5 (25.00%) Sauce Labs
3 3 (15.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 2 (10.00%) Azure
4 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.00%) Fivetran
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.00%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (5.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) JUnit
2 6 (30.00%) Appium
2 6 (30.00%) Selenium
2 6 (30.00%) TestNG
3 5 (25.00%) Git
4 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (15.00%) Cypress.io
4 3 (15.00%) Postman
5 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (10.00%) JIRA
5 2 (10.00%) JMeter
5 2 (10.00%) Xcode
5 2 (10.00%) XCUITest
6 1 (5.00%) Gatling
6 1 (5.00%) GitLab
6 1 (5.00%) Hamcrest
6 1 (5.00%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
6 1 (5.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Billing
3 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) QA Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Python Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Tester
3 2 (10.00%) Android Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Automation Tester
3 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Performance Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Performance Test Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) CRM Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) SAP CRM Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) SAP Tester
4 1 (5.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) pytest
2 2 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) Pandas
3 1 (5.00%) Playwright
3 1 (5.00%) PySpark
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (5.00%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Android
2 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (45.00%) E-Commerce
4 8 (40.00%) Test Scripting
5 5 (25.00%) Agile
5 5 (25.00%) Coaching
5 5 (25.00%) DevOps
5 5 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (15.00%) BDD
6 3 (15.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Performance Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Scrum
6 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Validation
7 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (10.00%) Data Validation
7 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (10.00%) TDD
7 2 (10.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) Swift
4 2 (10.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) ABAP
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) Databricks
3 1 (5.00%) Informatica
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk