Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Paddington

Automated Testing
City of Westminster > Paddington

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Paddington requiring Test Automation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Paddington 5.26% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £230 - -
City of Westminster median daily rate £230 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Paddington

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 Paddington.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17 18 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Paddington 89.47% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 3
10th Percentile £346 £440 £234
25th Percentile £409 £450 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -13.79%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £625
90th Percentile £620 £575 £670
City of Westminster median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +23.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.87 - -
City of Westminster median hourly rate £18.87 - £26.00

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Paddington

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Paddington

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Paddington

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Paddington citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Paddington 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG