Senior Test Automation Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Automation Test Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Automation Test Engineer daily rate in London is £365 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 395 490 588
Rank change year-on-year +95 +98 -127
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Automation Engineer 6 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.034% 0.019% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.020% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 5
10th Percentile - £509 -
25th Percentile £358 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -36.52% +4.55% +42.86%
75th Percentile £380 £599 £625
90th Percentile £496 £615 £633
England median daily rate £565 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.73% - +42.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,596 25,593 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 95.28% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,994 18,537 27,104
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 292 449
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.60 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.13 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.72 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Senior Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior Test Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Automation Engineer in London

Senior Test Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Automation Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Automation Engineer 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 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Test Automation Engineer in London

Senior Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Senior Test Automation Engineer 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 Senior Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) SDLC
2 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Regression Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) Postman
4 1 (16.67%) Playwright
4 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
4 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 1 (16.67%) Docker
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio

Senior Test Automation Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) NUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
1 1 (16.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 4 (66.67%) SDLC
2 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 4 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Kanban
3 1 (16.67%) Load Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) SAP