Taurus Contract Job Trends in London

Taurus Test Automation Framework
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Taurus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 443 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Taurus 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.005% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.019% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £318 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - -
75th Percentile £353 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £351 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

Taurus falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,275 3,892 4,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.30% 29.35% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,524 2,705 3,451
10th Percentile £400 £370 £385
25th Percentile £455 £430 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £821 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 20
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £33.54
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +15.49% -32.84%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.70 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.35% -12.48% -0.79%

Taurus
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Taurus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Taurus job vacancy trend in London

Taurus
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 Taurus within the London region over the 6 months to 3 September 2026. 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 - 1 £335 - 1
Taurus
England

Taurus
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) INAP
1 1 (100.00%) Intelligent Network
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
1 1 (100.00%) Newman
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (100.00%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dialogic
1 1 (100.00%) Metaswitch