Test Automation Contracts in Central London

Automated Testing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 47 45
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 117 173 234
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.84% 4.72% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.33% 5.17% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 120 172
10th Percentile £375 £438 £405
25th Percentile £450 £493 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +6.90%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £719
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
London median daily rate £525 £581 £600
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £90.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year -38.89% +14.29% +64.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,195 3,349 4,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.74% 91.28% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,540 2,258 3,100
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +6.05%
75th Percentile £680 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 47
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.33 £25.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £31.19 £53.19 £54.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Central London

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Central London

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Central London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Central London

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Central London

Test Automation
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
City of London +3 113 £550 -8.29% 20
Southwark +7 1 £500 +8.11%
Test Automation
London

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 5 (4.27%) Confluence
2 2 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.71%) nginx
2 2 (1.71%) WebLogic
2 2 (1.71%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.85%) CMS
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Endur
2 1 (0.85%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.85%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 22 (18.80%) AWS
2 20 (17.09%) Azure
3 15 (12.82%) GitHub
4 12 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.13%) Amazon S3
5 6 (5.13%) GCP
5 6 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (4.27%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (4.27%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (3.42%) Serverless
8 3 (2.56%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.56%) NuGet
8 3 (2.56%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.71%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.71%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.71%) dbt
9 2 (1.71%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.42%) Firewall
2 1 (0.85%) FTP
2 1 (0.85%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.85%) MQTT
2 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.55%) MySQL
1 10 (8.55%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.98%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.27%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.42%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.42%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.56%) Power BI
6 2 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.71%) KDB
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.85%) Big Data
7 1 (0.85%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.85%) DB2
7 1 (0.85%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.85%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (30.77%) Selenium
2 15 (12.82%) Cucumber
2 15 (12.82%) Postman
3 14 (11.97%) Git
4 13 (11.11%) Jenkins
5 11 (9.40%) JIRA
5 11 (9.40%) SpecFlow
6 9 (7.69%) WebDriver
7 8 (6.84%) Bitbucket
8 7 (5.98%) REST Assured
9 6 (5.13%) JMeter
10 5 (4.27%) Appium
10 5 (4.27%) Cypress.io
10 5 (4.27%) JUnit
10 5 (4.27%) TeamCity
10 5 (4.27%) TestNG
10 5 (4.27%) Visual Studio
11 4 (3.42%) GitLab
11 4 (3.42%) Mockito
11 4 (3.42%) PHPUnit
General
1 29 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.80%) Finance
3 21 (17.95%) Banking
4 11 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.69%) Back Office
6 7 (5.98%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.98%) Prime Brokerage
7 6 (5.13%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.42%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (3.42%) Front Office
8 4 (3.42%) Retail
8 4 (3.42%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.85%) Aviation
10 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (24.79%) Developer
2 25 (21.37%) Senior
3 19 (16.24%) Tester
4 17 (14.53%) Analyst
5 13 (11.11%) Test Analyst
6 11 (9.40%) Automation Tester
7 9 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
7 9 (7.69%) Senior Test Analyst
7 9 (7.69%) Test Engineer
8 8 (6.84%) Java Developer
9 7 (5.98%) Senior Developer
10 6 (5.13%) Lead
10 6 (5.13%) PHP Developer
11 5 (4.27%) QA Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) Test Automation Engineer
12 4 (3.42%) AWS Developer
12 4 (3.42%) Consultant
12 4 (3.42%) Full Stack Developer
12 4 (3.42%) Senior Java Developer
12 4 (3.42%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.11%) .NET
2 12 (10.26%) REST
3 7 (5.98%) Laravel
4 6 (5.13%) AngularJS
4 6 (5.13%) JAX-RS
4 6 (5.13%) Kafka
4 6 (5.13%) Playwright
4 6 (5.13%) RESTful
5 5 (4.27%) .NET Core
5 5 (4.27%) .NET Framework
5 5 (4.27%) CSS
5 5 (4.27%) HTML
5 5 (4.27%) Spring
5 5 (4.27%) Spring Boot
5 5 (4.27%) Web Services
6 4 (3.42%) React
6 4 (3.42%) Symfony
6 4 (3.42%) Yii
7 3 (2.56%) pytest
7 3 (2.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.69%) Equities
2 5 (4.27%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.27%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.42%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.42%) Fixed Income
4 3 (2.56%) Derivative
4 3 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.56%) Life Science
4 3 (2.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (1.71%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.71%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.85%) Genomics
6 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.85%) Machine to Machine
6 1 (0.85%) PDA
6 1 (0.85%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.11%) Linux
2 10 (8.55%) Windows
3 8 (6.84%) Unix
4 6 (5.13%) Android
5 4 (3.42%) Mac OS X
6 3 (2.56%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.71%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (37.61%) Agile
2 40 (34.19%) CI/CD
3 25 (21.37%) DevOps
3 25 (21.37%) Software Testing
4 24 (20.51%) Continuous Integration
5 19 (16.24%) Test Strategy
6 17 (14.53%) Test Scripting
7 16 (13.68%) SDET
8 15 (12.82%) Scrum
8 15 (12.82%) TDD
9 14 (11.97%) BDD
9 14 (11.97%) Performance Testing
10 12 (10.26%) Analytics
10 12 (10.26%) API Testing
11 11 (9.40%) Manual Testing
11 11 (9.40%) Microservices
11 11 (9.40%) Unit Testing
12 9 (7.69%) Integration Testing
13 8 (6.84%) Continuous Deployment
13 8 (6.84%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 43 (36.75%) Java
2 32 (27.35%) SQL
3 29 (24.79%) C#
4 22 (18.80%) Python
5 13 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.98%) PHP
7 6 (5.13%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.27%) C++
9 4 (3.42%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.42%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.56%) Bash
11 2 (1.71%) Rust
12 1 (0.85%) Bicep
12 1 (0.85%) Perl
12 1 (0.85%) Ruby
12 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.13%) ISTQB
4 5 (4.27%) Degree
5 4 (3.42%) ISEB
6 2 (1.71%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.71%) PMP
7 1 (0.85%) CEH
7 1 (0.85%) CISM
7 1 (0.85%) CISSP
7 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (21.37%) QA
2 7 (5.98%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.56%) ISO 20022
3 3 (2.56%) WCAG
4 2 (1.71%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.85%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.85%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (11.97%) Docker
2 2 (1.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.85%) iptables
Systems Management
1 10 (8.55%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.13%) Terraform
3 4 (3.42%) Ansible
4 2 (1.71%) Grafana
4 2 (1.71%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.71%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.71%) Puppet
5 1 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.85%) Consul
5 1 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.85%) Graylog
5 1 (0.85%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.85%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.85%) Nagios
5 1 (0.85%) Nessus
5 1 (0.85%) Opsgenie
5 1 (0.85%) Packer
5 1 (0.85%) PingFederate
5 1 (0.85%) Rancher
5 1 (0.85%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 15 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.84%) Oracle
3 3 (2.56%) Google
3 3 (2.56%) Splunk
4 2 (1.71%) IBM
4 2 (1.71%) Micro Focus
4 2 (1.71%) OpenLink
4 2 (1.71%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.71%) SnapLogic
4 2 (1.71%) VMware
5 1 (0.85%) Adobe
5 1 (0.85%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.85%) Dell
5 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.85%) Guidewire
5 1 (0.85%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.85%) Perfecto Mobile
5 1 (0.85%) Qualtrics
5 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.85%) Veracode