QA Automation Contracts in London

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 460 561
Rank change year-on-year +77 +101 -138
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 10 27 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.057% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.065% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 40
10th Percentile £400 £303 £399
25th Percentile £450 £427 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +12.99%
75th Percentile £525 £678 £608
90th Percentile £575 £700 £703
England median daily rate £513 £509 £481
% change year-on-year +0.79% +5.66% +10.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

QA Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,465 23,124 35,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.32% 90.91% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,089 16,746 26,132
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 264 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in London

QA Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Automation in London

QA Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Automation in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Automation in London

QA Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Automation in London

QA Automation
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +38 4 £500 -1.67%
QA Automation
England

QA Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (10.00%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (10.00%) BrowserStack
3 1 (10.00%) Firebase
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Sauce Labs
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 5 (50.00%) Selenium
2 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (30.00%) Appium
3 3 (30.00%) Git
3 3 (30.00%) JMeter
3 3 (30.00%) Postman
4 2 (20.00%) JIRA
4 2 (20.00%) REST Assured
4 2 (20.00%) SpecFlow
4 2 (20.00%) WebDriver
5 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (10.00%) Gradle
5 1 (10.00%) Log4Net
5 1 (10.00%) Maven
5 1 (10.00%) Mockito
5 1 (10.00%) NUnit
5 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (10.00%) Front Office
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Tester
4 1 (10.00%) QA Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) QA Automation Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) QA Leader
4 1 (10.00%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) QA Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Telecoms Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (10.00%) Playwright
2 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) SAML
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Derivative
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (50.00%) BDD
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (20.00%) API Testing
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) SDET
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
5 1 (10.00%) Architectural Design
5 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (10.00%) Conversational AI
5 1 (10.00%) Conversational UI
5 1 (10.00%) Defect Management
5 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
5 1 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven
5 1 (10.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle
1 1 (10.00%) Perfecto Mobile