Test Automation Contracts in West London

Automated Testing
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 15 36 41
Rank change year-on-year +21 +5 -15
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 16 7 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 7.62% 1.97% 3.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.60% 2.24% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 12
10th Percentile £339 £288 £475
25th Percentile £341 £353 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -31.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £400 £594 £625
90th Percentile £402 £663 £719
London median daily rate £511 £550 £578
% change year-on-year -7.05% -4.76% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £72.25
25th Percentile - - £75.63
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% -35.29% +7.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 186 312 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 88.57% 87.89% 93.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 223 383
10th Percentile £231 £215 £350
25th Percentile £339 £316 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -13.64% +7.84%
75th Percentile £483 £575 £638
90th Percentile £628 £650 £700
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 49
10th Percentile £18.99 £16.25 £29.60
25th Percentile £20.24 £16.56 £52.00
Median hourly rate £22.27 £30.16 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.16% -52.88% +176.58%
75th Percentile £30.79 £50.13 £75.00
90th Percentile £53.10 £59.50 £85.00
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 West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in West London

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in West London

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in West London

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in West London

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West 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
Hounslow +15 8 £400 +28.00% 2
Hammersmith - 8 £341 - 2
Test Automation
London

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) BrowserStack
2 2 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) BGP
1 1 (6.25%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (6.25%) MPLS
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) JUnit
1 7 (43.75%) Selenium
2 6 (37.50%) Appium
3 5 (31.25%) Postman
4 4 (25.00%) Cypress.io
4 4 (25.00%) SoapUI
5 2 (12.50%) JIRA
6 1 (6.25%) GitLab
6 1 (6.25%) HP UFT
6 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
6 1 (6.25%) Robot Framework
General
1 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Tester
2 4 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Senior Tester
3 3 (18.75%) Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Automation Tester
3 3 (18.75%) Mobile Tester
3 3 (18.75%) QA Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Android Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) iOS Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Software Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Test Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) JSON
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) NETCONF
2 1 (6.25%) Playwright
2 1 (6.25%) RESTCONF
2 1 (6.25%) SAPUI5
2 1 (6.25%) SOAP
2 1 (6.25%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (6.25%) XML
2 1 (6.25%) YAML
2 1 (6.25%) YANG
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Android
1 4 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (6.25%) CentOS
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 8 (50.00%) Security Testing
3 7 (43.75%) Manual Testing
4 5 (31.25%) API Testing
4 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
4 5 (31.25%) Performance Testing
4 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (18.75%) SDLC
7 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
8 1 (6.25%) Analytics
8 1 (6.25%) Integration Testing
8 1 (6.25%) Non-Functional Testing
8 1 (6.25%) Software Architecture
8 1 (6.25%) Test Management
8 1 (6.25%) Unit Testing
8 1 (6.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) Java
3 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) ISTQB
2 5 (31.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (31.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Adobe
1 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco
1 1 (6.25%) Google
1 1 (6.25%) SAP