Test Automation Engineer Contracts in South London

Automation Test Engineer
London > South London

The median Automation Test Engineer daily rate in South London is £410 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - -17
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 0.42% - 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% - 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £352
25th Percentile £405 - £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - £408
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.98%
75th Percentile £415 - £451
90th Percentile - - £473
London median daily rate £450 £579 £606
% change year-on-year -22.25% -4.54% +31.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 232 358 351
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.48% 92.51% 96.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 281 271
10th Percentile £229 £213 £256
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £524
Median % change year-on-year - -4.49% -0.29%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £638
90th Percentile £630 £750 £713
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 12
10th Percentile £17.10 £16.13 £39.34
25th Percentile £21.50 £19.06 £40.31
Median hourly rate £23.50 £36.94 £45.74
Median % change year-on-year -36.38% -19.23% -0.58%
75th Percentile £79.38 £50.42 £48.58
90th Percentile £83.75 £54.94 £49.72
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +10.62%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Engineer in South London

Test Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation Engineer in South London

Test Automation Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Croydon - 1 £410 -
Test Automation Engineer
London

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, 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 South London region featuring Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Spotify
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Spotify