Test Automation Contract Job Trends in North London

Automated Testing
London > North London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in North London requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 10 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in North London 6.90% 4.00% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.14% 4.35% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £428 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £503 - -
90th Percentile £524 - -
London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
London median hourly rate £49.50 £45.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +10.00% -34.55% -23.61%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North London

Test Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in North London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28 23 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North London 96.55% 92.00% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 17
10th Percentile £370 £414 £248
25th Percentile £400 £513 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £313
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +76.00% -26.47%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £465
90th Percentile £596 £654 £545
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
London median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £35.50
% change year-on-year +11.07% -14.79% -5.33%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in North London

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in North London

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in North London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North London citing Test Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North London citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in North London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North London citing Test Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North London citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in North 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 North London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Enfield - 2 £463 -
Test Automation
London

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Appium
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Back Office
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Software Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Case Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Verint