Appium Contracts

Appium
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Appium skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Appium over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 549 641
Rank change year-on-year +70 +92 +140
Contract jobs citing Appium 40 51 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.98% 0.99% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 41 55
10th Percentile £253 £325 £375
25th Percentile £319 £400 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £341 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year -24.22% -8.16% -2.00%
75th Percentile £444 £488 £550
90th Percentile £475 £525 £595
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +1.39% -10.00% +13.31%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Appium falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Appium in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Appium in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Appium over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Appium in the UK

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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 30 April 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
England +51 35 £341 -24.22% 33
London +27 29 £341 -24.22% 22
Work from Home +49 17 £341 -24.22% 20
UK excluding London +53 8 £456 +1.39% 19
South East +44 4 - -
North of England +26 1 £550 +10.00% 4
Midlands +23 1 £413 -8.33% 3
West Midlands +15 1 £413 -8.33% 2
North West +10 1 £550 +10.00% 3
Scotland +9 1 £500 +33.33% 3
Wales - 1 £375 - 5

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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 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 19 (47.50%) BrowserStack
2 11 (27.50%) Azure
3 10 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (22.50%) Sauce Labs
5 8 (20.00%) AWS
6 3 (7.50%) GitHub
7 2 (5.00%) Serverless
8 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.50%) Firebase
8 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (47.50%) Selenium
2 13 (32.50%) JUnit
2 13 (32.50%) Postman
3 12 (30.00%) Cypress.io
4 8 (20.00%) Git
4 8 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 8 (20.00%) SoapUI
4 8 (20.00%) TestNG
5 6 (15.00%) JIRA
6 5 (12.50%) Gatling
6 5 (12.50%) GitLab
6 5 (12.50%) JMeter
6 5 (12.50%) SpecFlow
7 4 (10.00%) CircleCI
7 4 (10.00%) NeoLoad
8 2 (5.00%) WebDriver
8 2 (5.00%) Xcode
8 2 (5.00%) XCUITest
9 1 (2.50%) REST Assured
9 1 (2.50%) Storybook
General
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Finance
4 3 (7.50%) Banking
4 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Automotive
6 1 (2.50%) Aviation
6 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Test Engineer
1 10 (25.00%) Tester
2 7 (17.50%) QA Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Senior
4 5 (12.50%) Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Developer in Test
5 4 (10.00%) Mobile Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Product Manager
5 4 (10.00%) Python Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) QA Manager
5 4 (10.00%) QA Test Manager
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Tester
5 4 (10.00%) Software Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Software Test Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Strategy Manager
5 4 (10.00%) Test Strategy Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) Playwright
2 4 (10.00%) Play Framework
2 4 (10.00%) pytest
3 2 (5.00%) .NET
3 2 (5.00%) Kafka
3 2 (5.00%) REST
4 1 (2.50%) Chai
4 1 (2.50%) Flutter
4 1 (2.50%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (2.50%) Jest
4 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.50%) React Native
4 1 (2.50%) RESTful
4 1 (2.50%) Vitest
4 1 (2.50%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.00%) Housing Association
3 1 (2.50%) Life Science
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.00%) Android
2 9 (22.50%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.00%) Windows
4 1 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 27 (67.50%) CI/CD
3 21 (52.50%) Agile
4 20 (50.00%) DevOps
5 16 (40.00%) API Testing
6 15 (37.50%) Performance Testing
7 11 (27.50%) Test Scripting
8 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (20.00%) E-Commerce
9 8 (20.00%) Manual Testing
9 8 (20.00%) Software Testing
10 7 (17.50%) QA Automation
10 7 (17.50%) Test Strategy
11 6 (15.00%) SDET
12 5 (12.50%) Integration Testing
12 5 (12.50%) Scrum
12 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 4 (10.00%) Computer Science
13 4 (10.00%) Kanban
13 4 (10.00%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 15 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 12 (30.00%) Java
2 12 (30.00%) Python
3 7 (17.50%) C#
4 4 (10.00%) C++
4 4 (10.00%) PHP
4 4 (10.00%) Ruby
4 4 (10.00%) Scala
4 4 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.50%) Swift
6 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.00%) SQL
7 1 (2.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (10.00%) Degree
1 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.50%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (52.50%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) NEC
2 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.50%) Hitachi
3 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft