Senior Test Automation Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Automation Test Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Automation Test Engineer daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 377 422
Rank change year-on-year +17 +45 +145
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Automation Engineer 8 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.057% 0.006% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.007% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £495 - £410
25th Percentile £588 £675 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £445
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +57.39% -19.14%
75th Percentile - £725 £500
90th Percentile £680 - -
England median daily rate £650 £575 £450
% change year-on-year +13.04% +27.78% -18.18%

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 12,918 14,555 18,859
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 93.87% 93.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,569 9,408 13,666
10th Percentile £333 £338 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £792 £794
England median daily rate £508 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 155 224
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.21
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.68 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £49.13 £57.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.80 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.94
% change year-on-year -37.13% -12.93% +53.13%

Senior Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Test Automation Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior Test Automation Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Senior Test Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Test Automation Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Test Automation Engineer job vacancies in London

Senior Test Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Automation Engineer in London over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Test Automation Engineer in London

Senior Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 18 November 2025, Senior Test Automation Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Senior Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Middleware
2 6 (75.00%) Playwright
2 6 (75.00%) Test Strategy
3 5 (62.50%) API Testing
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Docker
3 5 (62.50%) Gatling
3 5 (62.50%) GCP
3 5 (62.50%) GitLab
3 5 (62.50%) gRPC
3 5 (62.50%) JMeter
3 5 (62.50%) JMS
3 5 (62.50%) Kafka
3 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
3 5 (62.50%) Observability
3 5 (62.50%) Performance Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Performance Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Python
3 5 (62.50%) QA
3 5 (62.50%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (62.50%) REST
3 5 (62.50%) WebSockets
4 2 (25.00%) C#
4 2 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Aladdin

Senior Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Aladdin
1 1 (12.50%) CODA-Financials
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Gatling
1 5 (62.50%) GitLab
1 5 (62.50%) JMeter
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Postman
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Middleware
1 6 (75.00%) Playwright
2 5 (62.50%) gRPC
2 5 (62.50%) JMS
2 5 (62.50%) Kafka
2 5 (62.50%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (62.50%) REST
2 5 (62.50%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (75.00%) Test Strategy
3 5 (62.50%) API Testing
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Observability
3 5 (62.50%) Performance Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Performance Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 1 (12.50%) ERP
5 1 (12.50%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Functional Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) Microservices
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
5 1 (12.50%) TDD
5 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Charles River
1 1 (12.50%) CODA
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) SAP
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