Test Automation Contracts in London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 3 months to 28 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Automated Testing England / London
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	41	44	46
Rank change year-on-year	+3	+2
Contract jobs citing Test Automation	1067	1061	900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	5.14%	4.89%	3.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	5.93%	5.73%	4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted	788	734	654
Median daily rate	£475	£450	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.55%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£334	£325	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£575	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	0	9
Median hourly rate	£40.00	-	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£38.25	£37.50	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+2.00%	+7.14%

Test Automation is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	17998	18524	18927
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	86.68%	85.33%	82.18%
Number of daily rates quoted	12875	13537	13435
Median daily rate	£500	£475	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	+5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£325	£310
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£630	£638	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£385
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted	188	158	253
Median hourly rate	£25.75	£21.00	£22.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+22.61%	-4.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.75	£12.50	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.50	£46.00	£55.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.75	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+21.92%	-5.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing Test Automation as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Test Automation in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Test Automation in London over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation in London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Test Automation in London

Test 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 Test Automation within the London region over the 3 months to 28 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	+9	210	£475	-	74
Croydon	-9	20	£538	+41.44%
Osterley	+6	8	£500	+49.81%
West End of London	+7	5	£375	-23.07%	11
Canary Wharf	+4	4	£475	-
Hammersmith	-5	3	£325	-23.52%	1
Docklands, London	-4	2	-	-
Bromley	-6	2	£513	+2.50%	1
Wimbledon	0	1	£450	+5.88%
Moorgate	-5	1	£500	-
Uxbridge	-	1	-	-
Test Automation England

Test Automation
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Test Automation also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for Test Automation.

1	1387 (64.33%)	Agile Software Development
2	881 (40.86%)	Java
3	687 (31.86%)	TDD
4	550 (25.51%)	Continuous Integration
5	544 (25.23%)	Selenium
6	526 (24.40%)	Scrum
7	520 (24.12%)	JavaScript
8	483 (22.40%)	Jenkins
9	457 (21.20%)	Finance
10	450 (20.87%)	Git (software)
11	447 (20.73%)	BDD
12	423 (19.62%)	SQL
13	422 (19.57%)	QA
14	405 (18.78%)	DevOps
15	384 (17.81%)	HTML

16	378 (17.53%)	Banking
17	356 (16.51%)	Cucumber
18	351 (16.28%)	JIRA
19	339 (15.72%)	CSS
20	335 (15.54%)	Linux
21	319 (14.80%)	Python
22	297 (13.78%)	C#
23	290 (13.45%)	Web Services
24	272 (12.62%)	AngularJS
25	252 (11.69%)	OO
26	243 (11.27%)	.NET
27	233 (10.81%)	Kanban
28	232 (10.76%)	REST
28	232 (10.76%)	Amazon AWS
28	232 (10.76%)	HTML5

Test Automation
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	116 (5.38%)	Confluence
2	53 (2.46%)	Apache Spark
2	53 (2.46%)	Elasticsearch
3	52 (2.41%)	Tomcat
4	42 (1.95%)	Apache
5	39 (1.81%)	CMS
6	33 (1.53%)	nginx
7	31 (1.44%)	SharePoint
7	31 (1.44%)	WebSphere
8	26 (1.21%)	JBoss
9	14 (0.65%)	Adobe Experience Manager
9	14 (0.65%)	OpenStack
10	10 (0.46%)	WebLogic
11	9 (0.42%)	Hubot
12	8 (0.37%)	Drupal
13	6 (0.28%)	Apache Solr
13	6 (0.28%)	Oracle SOA Suite
13	6 (0.28%)	uWSGI
14	5 (0.23%)	Sitecore CMS
15	4 (0.19%)	EPiServer

Applications
1	41 (1.90%)	Microsoft Excel
2	28 (1.30%)	Microsoft Office
3	18 (0.83%)	MS Visio
4	14 (0.65%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	10 (0.46%)	Microsoft Project
6	8 (0.37%)	Photoshop
7	2 (0.093%)	Mingle
8	1 (0.046%)	GIMP
8	1 (0.046%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	19 (0.88%)	Dynamics CRM
1	19 (0.88%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	13 (0.60%)	Magento
3	6 (0.28%)	Endur
4	4 (0.19%)	Oracle Applications
4	4 (0.19%)	RMDS
4	4 (0.19%)	SunGard Martini
5	3 (0.14%)	Oracle BPM
6	2 (0.093%)	Eloqua
6	2 (0.093%)	FastStats
6	2 (0.093%)	ION MarketView
6	2 (0.093%)	Loan IQ
6	2 (0.093%)	SAP FI
7	1 (0.046%)	Global One
7	1 (0.046%)	Oracle EBS
7	1 (0.046%)	Oracle ERP
7	1 (0.046%)	Oracle Financials
7	1 (0.046%)	SAP CO
7	1 (0.046%)	SAP FI/CO
7	1 (0.046%)	Sentinel

Cloud Services
1	232 (10.76%)	Amazon AWS
2	107 (4.96%)	Microsoft Azure
3	53 (2.46%)	GitHub
4	32 (1.48%)	Amazon EC2
5	30 (1.39%)	OpenShift
6	24 (1.11%)	Cloud Computing
7	23 (1.07%)	PaaS
8	20 (0.93%)	IaaS
9	19 (0.88%)	AWS Lambda
10	16 (0.74%)	AWS CloudFormation
11	14 (0.65%)	SaaS
11	14 (0.65%)	Salesforce Service Cloud
12	13 (0.60%)	Salesforce Sales Cloud
12	13 (0.60%)	Virtual Private Cloud
13	12 (0.56%)	Amazon S3
14	11 (0.51%)	BrowserStack
15	10 (0.46%)	Google Cloud Platform
16	8 (0.37%)	Basecamp
16	8 (0.37%)	Dynamics 365
16	8 (0.37%)	Slack

Communications & Networking
1	131 (6.08%)	HTTP
2	61 (2.83%)	Internet
3	37 (1.72%)	TCP/IP
4	35 (1.62%)	SSL
5	25 (1.16%)	LDAP
6	18 (0.83%)	Network Security
7	16 (0.74%)	Firewall
8	15 (0.70%)	Kerberos
9	14 (0.65%)	Extranet
9	14 (0.65%)	Intrusion Detection
10	13 (0.60%)	DNS
11	9 (0.42%)	Wireshark
12	7 (0.32%)	FTP
13	6 (0.28%)	DHCP
14	5 (0.23%)	DVB
14	5 (0.23%)	LAN
14	5 (0.23%)	Software-Defined Networking
15	4 (0.19%)	HTTPS
15	4 (0.19%)	IPsec
15	4 (0.19%)	Multicast

Database & Business Intelligence
1	164 (7.61%)	SQL Server
2	143 (6.63%)	Relational Database
3	107 (4.96%)	MongoDB
3	107 (4.96%)	PostgreSQL
4	84 (3.90%)	Hadoop
5	80 (3.71%)	Big Data
6	79 (3.66%)	NoSQL
7	69 (3.20%)	MySQL
8	47 (2.18%)	Redis
9	44 (2.04%)	Data Warehouse
10	42 (1.95%)	RDBMS
11	40 (1.86%)	DB2
12	27 (1.25%)	Oracle Database
13	24 (1.11%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
14	22 (1.02%)	SQL Server Integration Services
14	22 (1.02%)	SQLite
15	21 (0.97%)	Apache Hive
16	17 (0.79%)	Apache Cassandra
16	17 (0.79%)	SQL Server 2012
17	16 (0.74%)	Power BI

Development Applications
1	544 (25.23%)	Selenium
2	483 (22.40%)	Jenkins
3	450 (20.87%)	Git (software)
4	356 (16.51%)	Cucumber
5	351 (16.28%)	JIRA
6	221 (10.25%)	WebDriver
7	151 (7.00%)	JUnit
8	148 (6.86%)	Maven
9	114 (5.29%)	TeamCity
10	113 (5.24%)	Subversion
11	93 (4.31%)	Team Foundation Server
12	86 (3.99%)	SpecFlow
13	69 (3.20%)	Grunt
14	66 (3.06%)	HP UFT
15	63 (2.92%)	gulp
16	62 (2.88%)	Gradle
17	59 (2.74%)	SoapUI
18	53 (2.46%)	Hudson
19	52 (2.41%)	JMeter
20	51 (2.37%)	Visual Studio

General
1	457 (21.20%)	Finance
2	378 (17.53%)	Banking
3	117 (5.43%)	Investment Banking
4	104 (4.82%)	Front Office
5	94 (4.36%)	Retail
6	72 (3.34%)	Games
7	58 (2.69%)	Marketing
8	40 (1.86%)	Legal
9	39 (1.81%)	Telecoms
10	35 (1.62%)	Back Office
11	26 (1.21%)	Manufacturing
12	22 (1.02%)	Financial Institution
13	19 (0.88%)	Electronics
14	14 (0.65%)	Retail Banking
15	12 (0.56%)	Advertising
15	12 (0.56%)	Law
15	12 (0.56%)	Publishing
16	6 (0.28%)	Pharmaceutical
16	6 (0.28%)	Wholesale Banking
17	5 (0.23%)	Billing

Job Titles
1	985 (45.69%)	Developer
2	296 (13.73%)	Java Developer
3	279 (12.94%)	Tester
4	241 (11.18%)	Analyst
5	200 (9.28%)	Automation Tester
6	176 (8.16%)	Test Analyst
7	151 (7.00%)	Senior Developer
8	120 (5.57%)	DevOps Engineer
9	119 (5.52%)	Test Engineer
10	109 (5.06%)	C# Developer
11	105 (4.87%)	QA Engineer
12	95 (4.41%)	Developer in Test
13	90 (4.17%)	Automation Test Analyst
14	82 (3.80%)	.NET Developer
15	72 (3.34%)	JavaScript Developer
16	71 (3.29%)	Test Automation Engineer
17	67 (3.11%)	Agile Developer
18	65 (3.01%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
19	63 (2.92%)	Full Stack Developer
20	62 (2.88%)	Software Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	384 (17.81%)	HTML
2	339 (15.72%)	CSS
3	290 (13.45%)	Web Services
4	272 (12.62%)	AngularJS
5	243 (11.27%)	.NET
6	232 (10.76%)	HTML5
6	232 (10.76%)	REST
7	222 (10.30%)	Node.js
8	190 (8.81%)	JSON
8	190 (8.81%)	RESTful
9	174 (8.07%)	React
9	174 (8.07%)	Spring
10	154 (7.14%)	XML
11	140 (6.49%)	SOAP
12	139 (6.45%)	jQuery
13	131 (6.08%)	CSS3
14	87 (4.04%)	Gherkin
15	78 (3.62%)	ASP.NET
16	61 (2.83%)	.NET Framework
16	61 (2.83%)	Hibernate

Miscellaneous
1	128 (5.94%)	Analytical Skills
2	116 (5.38%)	Mobile App
3	109 (5.06%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
4	104 (4.82%)	User Experience
5	102 (4.73%)	Computer Science
6	54 (2.50%)	Greenfield Project
7	47 (2.18%)	Fixed Income
8	45 (2.09%)	Equities
9	43 (1.99%)	Derivative
10	42 (1.95%)	Data Structures
11	38 (1.76%)	STB
12	35 (1.62%)	Fintech
13	27 (1.25%)	Algorithms
13	27 (1.25%)	iPhone
14	23 (1.07%)	Management Information System
15	22 (1.02%)	Linux Command Line
16	21 (0.97%)	iPad
16	21 (0.97%)	Virtual Team
17	17 (0.79%)	Enterprise Software
17	17 (0.79%)	Video on Demand

Operating Systems
1	335 (15.54%)	Linux
2	225 (10.44%)	Unix
3	135 (6.26%)	Apple iOS
4	104 (4.82%)	Windows
5	88 (4.08%)	Android
6	32 (1.48%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	24 (1.11%)	CentOS
8	22 (1.02%)	Mac OS
9	13 (0.60%)	Mac OS X
10	11 (0.51%)	Solaris
11	8 (0.37%)	Windows Server
12	7 (0.32%)	Ubuntu
13	4 (0.19%)	Windows 10
14	3 (0.14%)	CoreOS
14	3 (0.14%)	Windows Server 2012
15	2 (0.093%)	Oracle Linux
15	2 (0.093%)	VMS
16	1 (0.046%)	Embedded Linux
16	1 (0.046%)	Gentoo
16	1 (0.046%)	Kali Linux

Processes & Methodologies
1	1387 (64.33%)	Agile Software Development
2	687 (31.86%)	TDD
3	550 (25.51%)	Continuous Integration
4	526 (24.40%)	Scrum
5	447 (20.73%)	BDD
6	405 (18.78%)	DevOps
7	252 (11.69%)	OO
8	233 (10.81%)	Kanban
9	219 (10.16%)	Software Engineering
10	213 (9.88%)	E-Commerce
10	213 (9.88%)	Open Source
11	187 (8.67%)	Test Scripting
12	183 (8.49%)	Unit Testing
13	173 (8.02%)	Continuous Delivery
14	171 (7.93%)	Microservices
15	165 (7.65%)	Pair Programming
15	165 (7.65%)	Web Development
16	156 (7.24%)	Test Strategy
17	155 (7.19%)	Regression Testing
18	147 (6.82%)	Functional Testing

Programming Languages
1	881 (40.86%)	Java
2	520 (24.12%)	JavaScript
3	423 (19.62%)	SQL
4	319 (14.80%)	Python
5	297 (13.78%)	C#
6	189 (8.77%)	Ruby
7	116 (5.38%)	Scala
8	84 (3.90%)	Shell Script
9	78 (3.62%)	Bash Shell
10	75 (3.48%)	Apple Swift
11	67 (3.11%)	Groovy
12	65 (3.01%)	C++
13	59 (2.74%)	ES6
14	54 (2.50%)	Perl
15	53 (2.46%)	Objective-C
16	52 (2.41%)	PowerShell
17	30 (1.39%)	PHP
18	29 (1.35%)	Go
19	25 (1.16%)	C
20	20 (0.93%)	VBA

Qualifications
1	132 (6.12%)	Degree
2	105 (4.87%)	Security Cleared
3	67 (3.11%)	SC Cleared
4	64 (2.97%)	ISTQB
5	62 (2.88%)	ISEB
6	44 (2.04%)	Computer Science Degree
7	31 (1.44%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
8	18 (0.83%)	DV Cleared
9	11 (0.51%)	BPSS Clearance
9	11 (0.51%)	CESG Certified Professional
10	8 (0.37%)	MBA
10	8 (0.37%)	Numerate Degree
11	7 (0.32%)	RHCE
11	7 (0.32%)	RHCSA
12	6 (0.28%)	Master's Degree
13	5 (0.23%)	ISEB Practitioner
13	5 (0.23%)	OCP
13	5 (0.23%)	Oracle Certification
14	3 (0.14%)	CFA
14	3 (0.14%)	ISTQB Advanced Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	422 (19.57%)	QA
2	57 (2.64%)	MiFID
3	22 (1.02%)	Dodd-Frank
4	18 (0.83%)	EMIR
5	14 (0.65%)	HL7
6	8 (0.37%)	WCAG
7	7 (0.32%)	ISO/IEC 27001
7	7 (0.32%)	PCI DSS
8	6 (0.28%)	Data Quality
8	6 (0.28%)	Disclosure Scotland
8	6 (0.28%)	GMP
9	5 (0.23%)	21 CFR Part 11
10	3 (0.14%)	GxP
11	2 (0.093%)	PMO
12	1 (0.046%)	AIFMD
12	1 (0.046%)	IFRS
12	1 (0.046%)	IFRS 9
12	1 (0.046%)	SLA

System Software
1	204 (9.46%)	Docker
2	21 (0.97%)	Virtual Machines
3	20 (0.93%)	Apache Flume
4	16 (0.74%)	HDFS
5	14 (0.65%)	Active Directory
6	11 (0.51%)	Shibboleth
7	8 (0.37%)	VMware Infrastructure
8	4 (0.19%)	Apache ZooKeeper
9	2 (0.093%)	Hyper-V
9	2 (0.093%)	KVM
9	2 (0.093%)	LXC
9	2 (0.093%)	Xen
10	1 (0.046%)	Firmware
10	1 (0.046%)	Microsoft App-V
10	1 (0.046%)	vSphere

Systems Management
1	146 (6.77%)	Puppet
2	114 (5.29%)	Ansible
3	88 (4.08%)	Kubernetes
4	87 (4.04%)	Opscode Chef
5	48 (2.23%)	HP Quality Center
6	38 (1.76%)	Terraform
7	21 (0.97%)	HockeyApp
8	18 (0.83%)	Rancher
9	16 (0.74%)	Grafana
9	16 (0.74%)	Kibana
10	13 (0.60%)	OpenAM
11	12 (0.56%)	Prometheus
12	10 (0.46%)	Hadoop YARN
13	9 (0.42%)	Consul
14	8 (0.37%)	Salt
15	7 (0.32%)	Nagios
16	6 (0.28%)	HP SiteScope
16	6 (0.28%)	Mesos
17	5 (0.23%)	logstash
17	5 (0.23%)	StatsD

Vendors
1	148 (6.86%)	Microsoft
2	133 (6.17%)	Oracle
3	54 (2.50%)	HP
4	53 (2.46%)	Google
5	47 (2.18%)	Apple
6	43 (1.99%)	Sybase
7	41 (1.90%)	Red Hat
8	33 (1.53%)	New Relic
9	32 (1.48%)	IBM
9	32 (1.48%)	SAP
10	31 (1.44%)	Atlassian
10	31 (1.44%)	Salesforce.com
11	27 (1.25%)	Splunk
12	24 (1.11%)	TIBCO
13	21 (0.97%)	CA Agile Central
14	15 (0.70%)	hybris
15	14 (0.65%)	Informatica
15	14 (0.65%)	Perforce
16	13 (0.60%)	Adobe
17	12 (0.56%)	VMware