Hybrid/Remote Appium Contract Job Trends

Appium
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Appium skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 299 371
Rank change year-on-year -9 +72 +169
Contract jobs citing Appium 10 17 20
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.098% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.64% 1.11% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 16
10th Percentile £305 £324 £400
25th Percentile £308 £331 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £341 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.46% -19.76% -13.27%
75th Percentile £445 £346 £456
90th Percentile £461 £409 £500
UK median daily rate £438 £341 £438
% change year-on-year +28.30% -22.06% -8.85%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,565 1,536 2,378
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.37% 12.66% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,048 984 1,719
10th Percentile £331 £325 £360
25th Percentile £400 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £610 £619
90th Percentile £669 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 25 71
10th Percentile £39.00 £25.40 £50.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £51.25 £60.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £67.00 £68.00 £90.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.50 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%

Appium
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Appium and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Appium job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Appium
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Appium.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Appium

Appium
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Appium over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Appium daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Appium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) BlazeMeter
4 2 (20.00%) Google Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) BrowserStack
5 1 (10.00%) npm
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) GitLab
1 5 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 4 (40.00%) JMeter
3 3 (30.00%) Selenium
4 2 (20.00%) CircleCI
4 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (20.00%) JIRA
4 2 (20.00%) NUnit
4 2 (20.00%) WebDriver
5 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
5 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (10.00%) Git
5 1 (10.00%) JUnit
5 1 (10.00%) Postman
5 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
5 1 (10.00%) TestNG
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Mobile Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) QA Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Automation Specialist
4 2 (20.00%) Mobile Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) QA Test Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Telecoms Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Telecoms Test Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) WebdriverIO
2 2 (20.00%) React Native
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) Node.js
3 1 (10.00%) Playwright
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Android
1 5 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (70.00%) Agile
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
4 5 (50.00%) Data Management
4 5 (50.00%) Integration Testing
4 5 (50.00%) Performance Testing
4 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (50.00%) Test Scripting
5 4 (40.00%) Manual Testing
5 4 (40.00%) Scrum
6 3 (30.00%) Case Management
6 3 (30.00%) Regression Testing
6 3 (30.00%) SDET
6 3 (30.00%) Security Testing
6 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
7 2 (20.00%) BDD
7 2 (20.00%) Defect Management
7 2 (20.00%) Functional Testing
7 2 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (90.00%) QA
2 4 (40.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Optimizely
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft