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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 385 452
Rank change year-on-year +60 +67 +88
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 16 11 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.063% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.071% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 22
10th Percentile £364 £400 £303
25th Percentile £487 £450 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.31% +4.50%
75th Percentile - £525 £631
90th Percentile £633 £575 £700
England median daily rate £520 £500 £509
% change year-on-year +3.95% -1.67% +7.05%

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 11,178 15,459 23,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 88.48% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,507 11,105 16,762
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 316 266
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.72 £18.25
25th Percentile £23.78 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.81 £28.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% -29.34% +12.29%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.10 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 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 29 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 +7 3 £570 +14.00% 6
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 (12.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (6.25%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (6.25%) SAP CRM
2 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (6.25%) BrowserStack
3 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (6.25%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (6.25%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Selenium
2 5 (31.25%) Postman
3 4 (25.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (18.75%) JUnit
5 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
5 2 (12.50%) Git
5 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 2 (12.50%) JIRA
5 2 (12.50%) JMeter
6 1 (6.25%) Appium
6 1 (6.25%) Eclipse
6 1 (6.25%) Gatling
6 1 (6.25%) GitLab
6 1 (6.25%) Hamcrest
6 1 (6.25%) REST Assured
6 1 (6.25%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
6 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
6 1 (6.25%) TestNG
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Billing
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Tester
2 3 (18.75%) Automation Tester
2 3 (18.75%) QA Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Performance Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Performance Test Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior QA Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) CRM Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Junior
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) QA Tester
4 1 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) SAP CRM Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) SAP Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) pytest
2 2 (12.50%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) Gherkin
3 1 (6.25%) Pandas
3 1 (6.25%) PySpark
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (6.25%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Android
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) BDD
4 4 (25.00%) Coaching
4 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 4 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 4 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (18.75%) API Testing
5 3 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Scrum
5 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
5 3 (18.75%) Test Strategy
6 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 2 (12.50%) Manual Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Regression Testing
6 2 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) ABAP
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Informatica
2 1 (6.25%) Splunk