Appium
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Appium skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Appium over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 547 650 774
Rank change year-on-year +103 +124 -157
Contract jobs citing Appium 51 69 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.12% 0.084%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.00% 0.76% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 54 57
10th Percentile £325 £377 £350
25th Percentile £400 £429 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £588
90th Percentile £525 £596 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £441
% change year-on-year -10.00% +13.31% +10.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £45.00

All Development Application Skills
UK

Appium is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,120 9,058 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 15.15% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,374 11,232
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 250 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

Appium
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Appium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Appium in the UK

Appium
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Appium.

Daily rate trend for Appium in the UK

Appium
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Appium over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Appium in the UK

Appium
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Appium.

Hourly rate trend for Appium in the UK

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Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Appium within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +118 47 £450 -6.25% 19
London +96 37 £450 -6.25% 10
Work from Home +108 18 £450 -10.00% 13
UK excluding London +55 9 £450 -10.00% 7
North of England +29 3 £500 +3.09% 3
South East +27 3 £425 +13.33% 1
West Midlands +29 2 £450 -7.69%
Midlands +22 2 £450 -7.69%
North West +16 2 £500 +21.21% 1
Scotland +29 1 £375 -30.23% 1
Yorkshire +16 1 £425 -12.37% 2

Appium
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (21.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (25.49%) GitHub
2 9 (17.65%) BrowserStack
3 7 (13.73%) Firebase
4 6 (11.76%) BlazeMeter
5 5 (9.80%) Sauce Labs
6 4 (7.84%) Azure
6 4 (7.84%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 3 (5.88%) AWS
7 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.92%) Bitrise
8 2 (3.92%) GCP
8 2 (3.92%) Sentry
9 1 (1.96%) Datadog
9 1 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 32 (62.75%) Selenium
2 28 (54.90%) Postman
3 19 (37.25%) Cucumber
3 19 (37.25%) Git
3 19 (37.25%) Jenkins
4 14 (27.45%) JUnit
5 13 (25.49%) WebDriver
6 12 (23.53%) JIRA
6 12 (23.53%) TestNG
7 11 (21.57%) REST Assured
7 11 (21.57%) SoapUI
8 10 (19.61%) eggPlant
8 10 (19.61%) SOAtest
9 9 (17.65%) Cypress.io
9 9 (17.65%) GitLab
10 7 (13.73%) JMeter
11 5 (9.80%) Bitbucket
12 4 (7.84%) SonarQube
12 4 (7.84%) XCUITest
13 3 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (50.98%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.80%) Banking
4 4 (7.84%) Finance
4 4 (7.84%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Back Office
5 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.92%) Publishing
5 2 (3.92%) Retail
5 2 (3.92%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) Automation Engineer
2 10 (19.61%) Tester
3 9 (17.65%) QA Engineer
4 7 (13.73%) Senior
5 6 (11.76%) Analyst
5 6 (11.76%) Test Analyst
6 5 (9.80%) Mobile Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Consultant
7 4 (7.84%) QA Tester
7 4 (7.84%) Test Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Automation Tester
8 3 (5.88%) Mobile Tester
8 3 (5.88%) QA Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Test Analyst
8 3 (5.88%) Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Automation Test Analyst
9 2 (3.92%) QA Leader
9 2 (3.92%) Test Automation Consultant
9 2 (3.92%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.53%) .NET
2 10 (19.61%) .NET Framework
2 10 (19.61%) WebdriverIO
3 8 (15.69%) React Native
4 5 (9.80%) Middleware
4 5 (9.80%) REST
5 4 (7.84%) RESTful
6 3 (5.88%) Node.js
6 3 (5.88%) pytest
7 2 (3.92%) Behat
7 2 (3.92%) Playwright
7 2 (3.92%) SwiftUI
7 2 (3.92%) UIKit
7 2 (3.92%) Web Services
8 1 (1.96%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.96%) Gherkin
8 1 (1.96%) JSON
8 1 (1.96%) Spring
8 1 (1.96%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (31.37%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.96%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.96%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 14 (27.45%) Android
2 11 (21.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (84.31%) Test Automation
2 30 (58.82%) Agile
3 28 (54.90%) CI/CD
4 19 (37.25%) Continuous Integration
5 17 (33.33%) Test Scripting
6 16 (31.37%) Software Testing
6 16 (31.37%) Test Strategy
7 15 (29.41%) BDD
8 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (21.57%) Continuous Deployment
10 10 (19.61%) API Testing
10 10 (19.61%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 9 (17.65%) ATDD
11 9 (17.65%) Performance Testing
11 9 (17.65%) TDD
11 9 (17.65%) User Stories
12 8 (15.69%) Defect Tracking
12 8 (15.69%) Scrum
13 7 (13.73%) Fintech
13 7 (13.73%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (39.22%) Java
2 17 (33.33%) C#
3 11 (21.57%) JavaScript
3 11 (21.57%) Kotlin
4 10 (19.61%) Swift
5 6 (11.76%) Python
6 2 (3.92%) PHP
6 2 (3.92%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.96%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 11 (21.57%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.84%) Degree
3 4 (7.84%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.92%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.96%) ISEB
5 1 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (43.14%) QA
2 6 (11.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.84%) Ansible
2 1 (1.96%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.96%) Puppet
2 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.80%) Perfecto Mobile
3 3 (5.88%) Checkmarx
3 3 (5.88%) HP
3 3 (5.88%) IBM
4 2 (3.92%) Apple
4 2 (3.92%) Google
4 2 (3.92%) Splunk
5 1 (1.96%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle
5 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.96%) SAP