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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 511 619
Rank change year-on-year +27 +108 +143
Contract jobs citing Appium 35 61 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.82% 1.19% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 48 51
10th Percentile £204 £325 £375
25th Percentile £306 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £465 £485
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% -4.12% +2.11%
75th Percentile £444 £500 £550
90th Percentile £530 £550 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -13.16% -7.32% +16.15%

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 4,262 5,143 8,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.61% 11.99% 14.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 3,456 5,699
10th Percentile £340 £350 £375
25th Percentile £410 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 223 227
10th Percentile £22.10 £26.59 £44.86
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% +17.14%
75th Percentile £74.69 £70.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £82.07 £77.50 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

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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 31 May 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 14 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 31 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
England +23 29 £398 -14.52% 58
London +22 20 £368 -19.78% 38
Work from Home +40 17 £350 -22.57% 23
UK excluding London +56 10 £413 -13.16% 26
North of England +19 3 £438 -12.50% 6
South East +44 2 - - 3
North West +10 2 £438 -12.50% 3
West Midlands +13 1 £413 -8.33%
Midlands +13 1 £413 -8.33% 5
Scotland +4 1 £500 +33.33% 1
North East - 1 - - 2
South West - 1 £600 - 5
Wales - 1 £375 - 2
East of England - 1 £200 -

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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 (2.86%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) Azure
1 11 (31.43%) BrowserStack
2 9 (25.71%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (14.29%) AWS
3 5 (14.29%) GitHub
4 4 (11.43%) Sauce Labs
5 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.71%) Serverless
6 1 (2.86%) Asana
6 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.86%) Firebase
6 1 (2.86%) GCP
6 1 (2.86%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 22 (62.86%) Selenium
2 13 (37.14%) Postman
3 10 (28.57%) Cypress.io
4 8 (22.86%) JIRA
5 7 (20.00%) GitLab
5 7 (20.00%) Jenkins
5 7 (20.00%) JMeter
5 7 (20.00%) JUnit
6 6 (17.14%) Gatling
7 5 (14.29%) Git
7 5 (14.29%) SoapUI
7 5 (14.29%) SpecFlow
8 4 (11.43%) CircleCI
8 4 (11.43%) NeoLoad
9 3 (8.57%) TestNG
10 2 (5.71%) LoadRunner
10 2 (5.71%) TestRail
10 2 (5.71%) WebDriver
11 1 (2.86%) Robot Framework
11 1 (2.86%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Finance
4 3 (8.57%) Banking
4 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.86%) Automotive
6 1 (2.86%) Aviation
6 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Developer
2 7 (20.00%) Tester
3 6 (17.14%) Developer in Test
3 6 (17.14%) Software Developer
4 5 (14.29%) Analyst
4 5 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) QA Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior
5 4 (11.43%) Software Test Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Mobile Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Tester
6 3 (8.57%) Test Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Automation Tester
7 2 (5.71%) Product Manager
7 2 (5.71%) QA Manager
7 2 (5.71%) QA Test Manager
7 2 (5.71%) Quality Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Strategy Manager
7 2 (5.71%) Test Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (28.57%) Playwright
2 4 (11.43%) Play Framework
3 3 (8.57%) REST
4 2 (5.71%) .NET
4 2 (5.71%) Kafka
4 2 (5.71%) RESTful
5 1 (2.86%) Chai
5 1 (2.86%) Flutter
5 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.86%) Ionic Framework
5 1 (2.86%) Jest
5 1 (2.86%) pytest
5 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.86%) React
5 1 (2.86%) React Native
5 1 (2.86%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (28.57%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.71%) Housing Association
3 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.86%) Life Science
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (28.57%) Android
2 9 (25.71%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.71%) Windows
4 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (88.57%) Test Automation
2 22 (62.86%) CI/CD
3 20 (57.14%) Agile
4 18 (51.43%) DevOps
5 15 (42.86%) API Testing
6 14 (40.00%) Performance Testing
7 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (25.71%) Software Testing
9 8 (22.86%) SDET
9 8 (22.86%) Test Strategy
10 7 (20.00%) Manual Testing
11 5 (14.29%) Integration Testing
11 5 (14.29%) Scrum
11 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (14.29%) Test Scripting
12 4 (11.43%) Functional Testing
12 4 (11.43%) Kanban
12 4 (11.43%) Logistics
12 4 (11.43%) Security Testing
12 4 (11.43%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 13 (37.14%) Java
3 10 (28.57%) Python
4 9 (25.71%) C#
5 6 (17.14%) TypeScript
6 4 (11.43%) C++
6 4 (11.43%) PHP
6 4 (11.43%) Ruby
6 4 (11.43%) Scala
7 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.71%) SQL
8 1 (2.86%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) ISTQB
1 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (8.57%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.86%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (2.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Grafana
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.71%) NEC
1 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.86%) Hitachi
2 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft