Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Automated Testing
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 10 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 13.70% 1.79% 5.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.08% 1.79% 6.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £427 - £486
25th Percentile £437 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £360 £540
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -33.33% -32.50%
75th Percentile £568 - -
90th Percentile £776 - £572
East London median daily rate £450 £380 £540
% change year-on-year +18.42% -29.63% -28.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 71 56 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 97.26% 100.00% 97.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 50 79
10th Percentile £388 £441 £450
25th Percentile £450 £528 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £585 £585
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% - +0.43%
75th Percentile £688 £588 £640
90th Percentile £775 £630 £776
East London median daily rate £525 £540 £540
% change year-on-year -2.78% - +1.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £36.00 -
East London median hourly rate £24.43 £30.30 £23.32
% change year-on-year -19.39% +29.93% +3.71%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Tower Hamlets

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Tower Hamlets over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Tower Hamlets

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Canary Wharf +6 10 £450 +25.00% 1
Test Automation
East London

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Ethereum
1 1 (10.00%) Solana
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) BrowserStack
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (30.00%) Star Schema
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
1 3 (30.00%) JMeter
2 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Hardhat
2 1 (10.00%) Mocha
2 1 (10.00%) MSTest
2 1 (10.00%) tSQLt
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Publishing
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Lead
1 3 (30.00%) QA Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Node.js
1 2 (20.00%) REST
1 2 (20.00%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) ADO
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) ethers.js
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) Playwright
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (10.00%) Blockchain
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (10.00%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) SDLC
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Microservices
4 4 (40.00%) Analytics
4 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (30.00%) AI
5 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (30.00%) Defect Management
5 3 (30.00%) ETL
5 3 (30.00%) Functional Testing
5 3 (30.00%) ITIL
5 3 (30.00%) Kimball Methodology
5 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (30.00%) Manual Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) DAML
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Solidity
3 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (30.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
2 4 (40.00%) NIST
3 1 (10.00%) GRC
3 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) Snow