Test Automation Engineer Contracts in London

Automation Test Engineer
England > London

The median Automation Test Engineer daily rate in London is £423, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 365 441
Rank change year-on-year +38 +76 +90
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 26 26 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.15% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.16% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 48
10th Percentile £319 £358 £361
25th Percentile £356 £381 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% -21.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £678
90th Percentile £609 £573 £738
England median daily rate £475 £445 £525
% change year-on-year +6.74% -15.24% +10.53%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Engineer in London

Test Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation Engineer in London

Test Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation Engineer in London

Test Automation Engineer
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 Test Automation Engineer 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 -1 1 - -
South London - 1 - -
West London - 1 - - 3
Test Automation Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 19 (73.08%) CI/CD
3 11 (42.31%) Cypress.io
3 11 (42.31%) Selenium
4 10 (38.46%) AWS
4 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
4 10 (38.46%) Java
4 10 (38.46%) Jenkins
4 10 (38.46%) API Testing
5 9 (34.62%) Postman
5 9 (34.62%) Python
5 9 (34.62%) Agile
6 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
6 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (30.77%) DevOps
7 7 (26.92%) Git
7 7 (26.92%) JIRA
7 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
7 7 (26.92%) REST Assured
8 6 (23.08%) QA
8 6 (23.08%) Test Scripting
8 6 (23.08%) Azure
8 6 (23.08%) REST
8 6 (23.08%) Test Strategy
9 5 (19.23%) SDET
9 5 (19.23%) Software Testing
9 5 (19.23%) Validation
10 4 (15.38%) Event-Driven
10 4 (15.38%) JMeter
10 4 (15.38%) JavaScript

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 6 (23.08%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) BGP
1 1 (3.85%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (3.85%) MPLS
1 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (42.31%) Cypress.io
1 11 (42.31%) Selenium
2 10 (38.46%) Jenkins
3 9 (34.62%) Postman
4 7 (26.92%) Git
4 7 (26.92%) JIRA
4 7 (26.92%) REST Assured
5 4 (15.38%) JMeter
6 3 (11.54%) Appium
7 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket
7 2 (7.69%) Cucumber
7 2 (7.69%) MSTest
7 2 (7.69%) NSubstitute
7 2 (7.69%) NUnit
7 2 (7.69%) Visual Studio Coded UI
7 2 (7.69%) WebDriver
8 1 (3.85%) GitLab
8 1 (3.85%) LoadRunner
8 1 (3.85%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Finance
2 3 (11.54%) Law
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) REST
2 4 (15.38%) Kafka
2 4 (15.38%) pytest
3 3 (11.54%) RESTful
4 2 (7.69%) .NET
4 2 (7.69%) GraphQL
4 2 (7.69%) Jest
4 2 (7.69%) Playwright
4 2 (7.69%) React
5 1 (3.85%) JSON
5 1 (3.85%) NETCONF
5 1 (3.85%) RESTCONF
5 1 (3.85%) SOAP
5 1 (3.85%) Web Services
5 1 (3.85%) XML
5 1 (3.85%) YAML
5 1 (3.85%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Housing Association
1 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
1 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Android
1 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) CentOS
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 19 (73.08%) CI/CD
3 10 (38.46%) API Testing
4 9 (34.62%) Agile
5 8 (30.77%) DevOps
5 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (23.08%) Test Scripting
6 6 (23.08%) Test Strategy
7 5 (19.23%) SDET
7 5 (19.23%) Software Testing
7 5 (19.23%) Validation
8 4 (15.38%) Component Testing
8 4 (15.38%) Event-Driven
8 4 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 4 (15.38%) Integration Testing
8 4 (15.38%) Performance Testing
8 4 (15.38%) Scrum
8 4 (15.38%) Software Delivery
8 4 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) Java
2 9 (34.62%) Python
3 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 4 (15.38%) SQL
4 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (11.54%) Degree
4 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
5 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Salesforce
2 2 (7.69%) NEC
3 1 (3.85%) Cisco
3 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.85%) UiPath