Test Automation Contracts in London

Automated Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 46 46
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 +5
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 732 1,254 2,091
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.19% 4.85% 5.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 5.33% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 922 1,565
10th Percentile £363 £425 £413
25th Percentile £431 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £586 £596
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -1.55% +13.43%
75th Percentile £688 £706 £700
90th Percentile £775 £820 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 15
10th Percentile £52.25 £73.00 £55.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £77.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £90.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +14.29% +15.81%
75th Percentile £65.75 - £85.00
90th Percentile £71.88 - £91.26
England median hourly rate £60.00 £77.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -22.08% +28.33% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Test 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 15,475 23,527 35,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 90.92% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,094 16,975 26,024
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 269 415
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.40 £17.55
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.84 £37.34 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% -0.43% +14.77%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.61
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.30 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Automation in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Automation in London

Test 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 Test Automation within the London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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 +2 111 £525 -11.76% 26
East London +4 12 £540 +24.14% 12
South London -1 8 £465 -7.00% 3
West London +9 7 £375 -28.57% 8
Test Automation
England

Test 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 41 (5.60%) Confluence
2 23 (3.14%) nginx
3 16 (2.19%) Apache Spark
4 15 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.23%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.09%) SAS
8 6 (0.82%) Apache
8 6 (0.82%) CMS
9 4 (0.55%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.41%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.41%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
11 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
12 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.14%) Hyperledger
12 1 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (0.82%) Simulink
1 6 (0.82%) Stateflow
2 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.27%) Mingle
4 2 (0.27%) Trello
5 1 (0.14%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.14%) Gliffy
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (1.50%) ION MarketView
2 6 (0.82%) Endur
3 5 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.68%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.41%) IntelliMatch
4 3 (0.41%) ION Anvil
4 3 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.27%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.14%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.14%) RMDS
6 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 161 (21.99%) AWS
2 159 (21.72%) Azure
3 86 (11.75%) Azure DevOps
4 65 (8.88%) GitHub
5 44 (6.01%) Serverless
6 35 (4.78%) GCP
7 22 (3.01%) Power Platform
8 21 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
9 19 (2.60%) Entra ID
10 18 (2.46%) Amazon S3
10 18 (2.46%) PaaS
11 17 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (2.19%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
12 16 (2.19%) Azure Functions
12 16 (2.19%) PowerApps
13 15 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
13 15 (2.05%) SaaS
14 14 (1.91%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (1.78%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.46%) Firewall
2 11 (1.50%) DNS
3 10 (1.37%) Internet
4 9 (1.23%) VPN
4 9 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (1.09%) 5G
6 7 (0.96%) SSL
7 6 (0.82%) HTTP
8 4 (0.55%) DHCP
8 4 (0.55%) VLAN
8 4 (0.55%) Wireless
9 3 (0.41%) IPv4
10 2 (0.27%) BGP
10 2 (0.27%) DKIM
10 2 (0.27%) DMARC
10 2 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
10 2 (0.27%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.27%) MPLS
10 2 (0.27%) SMS
10 2 (0.27%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (8.61%) NoSQL
2 58 (7.92%) SQL Server
3 36 (4.92%) Relational Database
4 33 (4.51%) MongoDB
5 30 (4.10%) KDB
6 28 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (2.32%) MySQL
9 16 (2.19%) Big Data
9 16 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (2.05%) Data Lake
11 14 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (1.91%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.91%) Power BI
12 9 (1.23%) Kdb+
13 8 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (0.96%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (0.82%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 128 (17.49%) Selenium
2 119 (16.26%) Git
3 105 (14.34%) Jenkins
4 104 (14.21%) JIRA
5 77 (10.52%) Cucumber
6 73 (9.97%) Postman
7 52 (7.10%) Cypress.io
8 44 (6.01%) JMeter
9 43 (5.87%) SpecFlow
10 40 (5.46%) WebDriver
11 37 (5.05%) TeamCity
12 35 (4.78%) Appium
13 32 (4.37%) JUnit
14 31 (4.23%) GitLab
15 27 (3.69%) Bitbucket
15 27 (3.69%) REST Assured
16 26 (3.55%) Visual Studio
17 24 (3.28%) TestNG
18 20 (2.73%) LoadRunner
18 20 (2.73%) SoapUI
General
1 170 (23.22%) Social Skills
2 161 (21.99%) Finance
3 102 (13.93%) Banking
4 55 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (7.10%) Front Office
5 52 (7.10%) Public Sector
6 44 (6.01%) Back Office
7 43 (5.87%) Investment Banking
8 26 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.32%) Legal
10 14 (1.91%) Retail
11 13 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.78%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.37%) Prime Brokerage
13 9 (1.23%) Law
14 8 (1.09%) Retail Banking
15 6 (0.82%) Automotive
15 6 (0.82%) Marketing
15 6 (0.82%) Wholesale Banking
16 5 (0.68%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 204 (27.87%) Developer
2 140 (19.13%) Senior
3 87 (11.89%) Tester
4 73 (9.97%) Lead
5 62 (8.47%) Analyst
6 58 (7.92%) Test Engineer
7 54 (7.38%) Java Developer
8 51 (6.97%) Test Analyst
9 47 (6.42%) Automation Tester
10 44 (6.01%) Senior Developer
11 40 (5.46%) QA Engineer
12 36 (4.92%) Senior Analyst
13 35 (4.78%) Full Stack Developer
14 34 (4.64%) Senior Test Analyst
15 29 (3.96%) Software Engineer
16 28 (3.83%) Test Automation Engineer
16 28 (3.83%) Test Manager
17 27 (3.69%) DevOps Engineer
18 25 (3.42%) Architect
18 25 (3.42%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (13.25%) .NET
2 69 (9.43%) REST
3 62 (8.47%) Kafka
4 52 (7.10%) HTML
5 51 (6.97%) CSS
6 47 (6.42%) React
7 46 (6.28%) Node.js
8 42 (5.74%) .NET Framework
9 38 (5.19%) RESTful
10 36 (4.92%) XML
11 33 (4.51%) AngularJS
11 33 (4.51%) Web Services
12 30 (4.10%) .NET Core
13 28 (3.83%) Spring
14 27 (3.69%) JSON
15 24 (3.28%) Laravel
15 24 (3.28%) Middleware
16 22 (3.01%) JAX-RS
17 21 (2.87%) Sass
17 21 (2.87%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 46 (6.28%) Product Ownership
2 34 (4.64%) Mobile App
3 32 (4.37%) Derivative
4 29 (3.96%) Equities
5 27 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
6 26 (3.55%) Algorithms
6 26 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (3.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 20 (2.73%) Fixed Income
10 17 (2.32%) Cloud Native
11 15 (2.05%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.91%) Hedge funds
13 13 (1.78%) Public Cloud
14 11 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.37%) Onboarding
16 8 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
17 7 (0.96%) Security Posture
17 7 (0.96%) Virtual Team
18 5 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 84 (11.48%) Linux
2 60 (8.20%) Unix
3 35 (4.78%) Android
4 34 (4.64%) Windows
5 16 (2.19%) Apple iOS
6 15 (2.05%) Mac OS X
7 6 (0.82%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (42.35%) Agile
2 257 (35.11%) CI/CD
3 205 (28.01%) DevOps
4 144 (19.67%) Continuous Integration
5 130 (17.76%) TDD
6 118 (16.12%) Microservices
7 112 (15.30%) Software Testing
8 105 (14.34%) Scrum
9 95 (12.98%) BDD
10 93 (12.70%) Performance Testing
11 91 (12.43%) Test Strategy
12 85 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
13 79 (10.79%) Software Engineering
14 60 (8.20%) User Acceptance Testing
15 57 (7.79%) Computer Science
16 54 (7.38%) Full Stack Development
17 53 (7.24%) Test Scripting
18 52 (7.10%) Containerisation
19 50 (6.83%) Unit Testing
20 47 (6.42%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 252 (34.43%) Java
2 188 (25.68%) Python
3 146 (19.95%) SQL
4 143 (19.54%) C#
5 118 (16.12%) JavaScript
6 68 (9.29%) TypeScript
7 43 (5.87%) PowerShell
8 36 (4.92%) C++
9 33 (4.51%) PHP
10 28 (3.83%) Kotlin
11 20 (2.73%) Bash
12 16 (2.19%) Go
13 15 (2.05%) Scala
13 15 (2.05%) Shell Script
14 14 (1.91%) Rust
15 13 (1.78%) C
16 10 (1.37%) Perl
17 7 (0.96%) Groovy
17 7 (0.96%) Ruby
17 7 (0.96%) Swift
Qualifications
1 97 (13.25%) Security Cleared
2 85 (11.61%) SC Cleared
3 66 (9.02%) Degree
4 15 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.78%) ISTQB
6 10 (1.37%) ISEB
7 9 (1.23%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.82%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.55%) CISSP
9 4 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.41%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.41%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.41%) PhD
10 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.41%) PMP
11 2 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.14%) CEH
12 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (18.31%) QA
2 35 (4.78%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.46%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.82%) HL7
4 6 (0.82%) WCAG
5 3 (0.41%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.14%) JTAG
7 1 (0.14%) MiFID
7 1 (0.14%) NCSC
7 1 (0.14%) NIST
7 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 88 (12.02%) Docker
2 23 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.14%) iptables
Systems Management
1 86 (11.75%) Kubernetes
2 59 (8.06%) Terraform
3 38 (5.19%) Ansible
4 23 (3.14%) Grafana
5 20 (2.73%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.37%) Puppet
7 9 (1.23%) Packer
8 7 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.55%) Consul
10 4 (0.55%) Iperf
10 4 (0.55%) Kibana
10 4 (0.55%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.41%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.41%) logstash
11 3 (0.41%) Opsgenie
11 3 (0.41%) SCCM
12 2 (0.27%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 94 (12.84%) Microsoft
2 33 (4.51%) Oracle
3 24 (3.28%) ION Trading
4 14 (1.91%) Google
5 13 (1.78%) TIBCO
6 11 (1.50%) SAP
7 9 (1.23%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.23%) Splunk
8 8 (1.09%) CyberArk
8 8 (1.09%) Databricks
8 8 (1.09%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.09%) IBM
9 7 (0.96%) CA Agile Central
9 7 (0.96%) Checkmarx
9 7 (0.96%) HP
10 5 (0.68%) iManage
10 5 (0.68%) Intapp
10 5 (0.68%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.68%) SimCorp
11 4 (0.55%) Tradeweb