Test Automation Contracts in London

Automated Testing
England > 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 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 48 47
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 700 1,321 2,098
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.92% 4.84% 5.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 5.31% 5.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 962 1,569
10th Percentile £374 £420 £413
25th Percentile £450 £480 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £580
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +1.29% +13.17%
75th Percentile £688 £709 £688
90th Percentile £775 £820 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £541
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.62% +13.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 17
10th Percentile - £72.25 £53.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £75.63 £60.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £85.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +7.94% +24.02%
75th Percentile £61.25 £90.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £65.40 - £91.14
England median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,796 24,868 36,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 91.10% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,308 17,810 26,281
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 284 428
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.96 £22.72 £23.91
Median hourly rate £29.00 £39.00 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.64% +9.09% +10.96%
75th Percentile £47.50 £62.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £78.35 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in London.

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 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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 0 106 £525 -12.50% 24
East London 0 11 £540 +24.14% 11
West London +6 7 £375 -31.82% 10
South London -6 4 £475 -5.00% 4
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
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 33 (4.71%) Confluence
2 21 (3.00%) nginx
3 15 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.71%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (1.00%) Apache
7 6 (0.86%) CMS
7 6 (0.86%) SAS
8 5 (0.71%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.57%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.43%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.43%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.43%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.29%) CICS
11 2 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
11 2 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2013
12 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.14%) Hyperledger
12 1 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Simulink
1 6 (0.86%) Stateflow
2 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.29%) Mingle
4 2 (0.29%) Trello
5 1 (0.14%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.14%) Gliffy
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (1.43%) ION MarketView
2 6 (0.86%) Endur
3 5 (0.71%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.57%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.43%) IntelliMatch
5 3 (0.43%) ION Anvil
5 3 (0.43%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.14%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.14%) RMDS
7 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 166 (23.71%) AWS
2 144 (20.57%) Azure
3 78 (11.14%) Azure DevOps
4 71 (10.14%) GitHub
5 44 (6.29%) Serverless
6 27 (3.86%) GCP
7 21 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (2.71%) Amazon S3
8 19 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (2.71%) Power Platform
9 18 (2.57%) Azure Service Bus
10 15 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (2.14%) Azure Functions
10 15 (2.14%) SaaS
11 14 (2.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 14 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (2.00%) Entra ID
11 14 (2.00%) PaaS
11 14 (2.00%) PowerApps
12 13 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.57%) Firewall
2 14 (2.00%) DNS
3 13 (1.86%) Internet
4 9 (1.29%) VPN
5 8 (1.14%) SSL
6 7 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.86%) 5G
7 6 (0.86%) HTTP
8 4 (0.57%) DHCP
8 4 (0.57%) VLAN
8 4 (0.57%) Wireless
9 3 (0.43%) IPv4
9 3 (0.43%) SNA
10 2 (0.29%) BGP
10 2 (0.29%) DKIM
10 2 (0.29%) DMARC
10 2 (0.29%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.29%) MPLS
10 2 (0.29%) SMS
10 2 (0.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (8.86%) NoSQL
2 53 (7.57%) SQL Server
3 33 (4.71%) MongoDB
4 32 (4.57%) Relational Database
5 25 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (3.57%) KDB
6 22 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (2.57%) MySQL
8 17 (2.43%) Big Data
9 15 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (2.14%) Data Lake
9 15 (2.14%) DynamoDB
10 14 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.43%) Power BI
13 9 (1.29%) Kdb+
14 6 (0.86%) Hadoop
14 6 (0.86%) OLTP
15 5 (0.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 122 (17.43%) Selenium
2 104 (14.86%) Git
3 98 (14.00%) Jenkins
4 93 (13.29%) JIRA
5 80 (11.43%) Cucumber
6 50 (7.14%) Postman
7 49 (7.00%) Cypress.io
8 46 (6.57%) SpecFlow
9 37 (5.29%) JMeter
9 37 (5.29%) TeamCity
10 36 (5.14%) WebDriver
11 35 (5.00%) JUnit
12 30 (4.29%) REST Assured
13 28 (4.00%) Appium
14 25 (3.57%) GitLab
14 25 (3.57%) TestNG
15 22 (3.14%) Bitbucket
16 21 (3.00%) SoapUI
16 21 (3.00%) Visual Studio
17 18 (2.57%) Mockito
General
1 152 (21.71%) Social Skills
2 151 (21.57%) Finance
3 96 (13.71%) Banking
4 54 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (7.14%) Front Office
6 47 (6.71%) Public Sector
7 45 (6.43%) Investment Banking
8 26 (3.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (3.43%) Back Office
10 14 (2.00%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.86%) Legal
12 12 (1.71%) Retail
13 11 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.57%) Prime Brokerage
14 10 (1.43%) Law
15 8 (1.14%) Electronics
15 8 (1.14%) Marketing
15 8 (1.14%) Retail Banking
16 6 (0.86%) Automotive
16 6 (0.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 190 (27.14%) Developer
2 112 (16.00%) Senior
3 89 (12.71%) Tester
4 70 (10.00%) Lead
5 54 (7.71%) Test Engineer
6 51 (7.29%) Analyst
7 46 (6.57%) Automation Tester
8 44 (6.29%) Java Developer
9 42 (6.00%) Senior Developer
10 40 (5.71%) Test Analyst
11 39 (5.57%) QA Engineer
12 30 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
13 28 (4.00%) Full Stack Developer
13 28 (4.00%) Software Engineer
14 27 (3.86%) Test Leader
15 25 (3.57%) C# Developer
15 25 (3.57%) Test Manager
16 24 (3.43%) Architect
17 23 (3.29%) Consultant
17 23 (3.29%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (12.43%) .NET
2 65 (9.29%) REST
3 58 (8.29%) Kafka
4 45 (6.43%) React
5 44 (6.29%) Node.js
6 43 (6.14%) CSS
6 43 (6.14%) HTML
7 39 (5.57%) .NET Framework
7 39 (5.57%) RESTful
8 37 (5.29%) XML
9 29 (4.14%) AngularJS
9 29 (4.14%) JSON
9 29 (4.14%) Web Services
10 27 (3.86%) .NET Core
11 24 (3.43%) Middleware
12 23 (3.29%) Spring
13 21 (3.00%) Laravel
14 20 (2.86%) GraphQL
15 19 (2.71%) Gherkin
15 19 (2.71%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 32 (4.57%) Derivative
3 29 (4.14%) Equities
4 27 (3.86%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (3.43%) Algorithms
6 23 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (2.71%) Fixed Income
8 18 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (2.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 17 (2.43%) Mobile App
10 16 (2.29%) Cloud Native
11 15 (2.14%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.71%) Hedge funds
12 12 (1.71%) Public Cloud
13 8 (1.14%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.00%) Private Cloud
14 7 (1.00%) Security Posture
15 6 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
16 5 (0.71%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 78 (11.14%) Linux
2 53 (7.57%) Unix
3 25 (3.57%) Windows
4 19 (2.71%) Android
5 15 (2.14%) Mac OS X
6 13 (1.86%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.71%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (39.71%) Agile
2 254 (36.29%) CI/CD
3 192 (27.43%) DevOps
4 119 (17.00%) TDD
5 117 (16.71%) Continuous Integration
6 114 (16.29%) Microservices
7 105 (15.00%) Software Testing
8 94 (13.43%) Scrum
9 91 (13.00%) BDD
10 88 (12.57%) Test Strategy
11 76 (10.86%) Performance Testing
11 76 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
11 76 (10.86%) Software Engineering
12 60 (8.57%) User Acceptance Testing
13 57 (8.14%) Containerisation
14 53 (7.57%) Migration
15 51 (7.29%) Test Scripting
16 50 (7.14%) SDLC
17 48 (6.86%) Computer Science
17 48 (6.86%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 240 (34.29%) Java
2 195 (27.86%) Python
3 140 (20.00%) SQL
4 136 (19.43%) C#
5 107 (15.29%) JavaScript
6 66 (9.43%) TypeScript
7 38 (5.43%) PowerShell
8 30 (4.29%) C++
8 30 (4.29%) PHP
9 16 (2.29%) Shell Script
10 15 (2.14%) Bash
11 14 (2.00%) Go
11 14 (2.00%) Rust
12 13 (1.86%) Kotlin
12 13 (1.86%) Perl
13 12 (1.71%) Scala
14 10 (1.43%) C
14 10 (1.43%) Ruby
15 6 (0.86%) MATLAB
16 5 (0.71%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 109 (15.57%) Security Cleared
2 96 (13.71%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.43%) Degree
4 15 (2.14%) ISTQB
5 12 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.29%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.29%) ISEB
6 9 (1.29%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.71%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.43%) PhD
9 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.43%) PMP
10 2 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.29%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.14%) CEH
11 1 (0.14%) CISSP
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (18.29%) QA
2 33 (4.71%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.71%) ISO 9001
4 5 (0.71%) WCAG
5 4 (0.57%) HL7
6 3 (0.43%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.29%) MiFID
7 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.14%) GxP
8 1 (0.14%) JTAG
8 1 (0.14%) NCSC
8 1 (0.14%) NIST
8 1 (0.14%) SLA
8 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 88 (12.57%) Docker
2 17 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.43%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.14%) iptables
5 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 83 (11.86%) Kubernetes
2 61 (8.71%) Terraform
3 31 (4.43%) Ansible
4 21 (3.00%) Grafana
5 19 (2.71%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.43%) Puppet
7 9 (1.29%) Packer
8 8 (1.14%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.71%) Kibana
10 4 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.57%) Consul
10 4 (0.57%) Iperf
11 3 (0.43%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.43%) logstash
11 3 (0.43%) Opsgenie
11 3 (0.43%) Rancher
11 3 (0.43%) SCCM
11 3 (0.43%) vRealize
11 3 (0.43%) VxRail
12 2 (0.29%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 77 (11.00%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.29%) Oracle
3 21 (3.00%) ION Trading
4 14 (2.00%) TIBCO
5 13 (1.86%) SAP
6 10 (1.43%) Google
6 10 (1.43%) IBM
7 9 (1.29%) Splunk
8 8 (1.14%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.00%) Dynatrace
10 6 (0.86%) CA Agile Central
10 6 (0.86%) Databricks
11 5 (0.71%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.71%) HP
11 5 (0.71%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.71%) Tradeweb
12 4 (0.57%) Dell
12 4 (0.57%) iManage
12 4 (0.57%) SimCorp
12 4 (0.57%) VMware