Test Automation Contracts in South London

Automated Testing
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 36 36
Rank change year-on-year +12 0 -13
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 11 6 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 5.95% 2.48% 4.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.79% 2.65% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 16
10th Percentile - £347 £332
25th Percentile £380 £418 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.23% -6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £503 £503 £625
90th Percentile £606 £531 £675
London median daily rate £511 £550 £578
% change year-on-year -7.05% -4.76% -0.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 226 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.57% 93.39% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 152 277
10th Percentile £380 £216 £300
25th Percentile £463 £422 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £675
90th Percentile £876 £638 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 13
10th Percentile - £17.00 £18.75
25th Percentile - £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -50.54%
75th Percentile £20.38 £75.00 £50.42
90th Percentile £73.96 £83.75 £52.46
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in South London

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in South London

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in South London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in South London

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in South London

Test Automation
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 within the South London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +11 7 £380 -10.59% 2
Bromley -4 3 £750 - 3
Merton - 1 £413 - 3
Test Automation
London

Test Automation
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Jupyter
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Functions
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (18.18%) Power Automate
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
1 2 (18.18%) PowerApps
1 2 (18.18%) Serverless
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 2 (18.18%) Impala
2 2 (18.18%) Power BI
2 2 (18.18%) Redis
3 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) MySQL
3 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Jenkins
2 6 (54.55%) Git
3 5 (45.45%) JIRA
4 4 (36.36%) Postman
4 4 (36.36%) REST Assured
5 3 (27.27%) Selenium
6 2 (18.18%) Artifactory
6 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
6 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
6 2 (18.18%) SonarQube
6 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
7 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Financial Institution
3 1 (9.09%) Back Office
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
1 3 (27.27%) Software Developer
1 3 (27.27%) Test Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Python Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Python Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) QA Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Developer in Test
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) QA Automation Tester
3 1 (9.09%) QA Leader
3 1 (9.09%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
2 2 (18.18%) FastAPI
2 2 (18.18%) Kafka
2 2 (18.18%) pytest
2 2 (18.18%) React
3 1 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (9.09%) Keycloak
3 1 (9.09%) RESTful
3 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) API Testing
2 4 (36.36%) Test Scripting
3 3 (27.27%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (27.27%) Code Quality
3 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
3 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Process Improvement
3 3 (27.27%) SDET
3 3 (27.27%) Test Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
4 2 (18.18%) Investment Management
4 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) HAProxy
2 1 (9.09%) Kibana
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Puppet
2 1 (9.09%) Rancher
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
1 2 (18.18%) SAP