Appium
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Appium skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Appium over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 547 641 793
Rank change year-on-year +94 +152 -166
Contract jobs citing Appium 53 75 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.13% 0.079%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.03% 0.85% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 58 50
10th Percentile £325 £375 £349
25th Percentile £400 £421 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +2.11% +18.75%
75th Percentile £494 £550 £571
90th Percentile £525 £591 £589
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - -10.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Appium is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,155 8,870 15,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.94% 15.02% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,466 6,241 11,267
10th Percentile £355 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £461 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.56%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 241 210
10th Percentile £33.20 £44.64 £37.22
25th Percentile £46.38 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +16.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.17 £62.25
90th Percentile £80.90 £80.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +22.22%

Appium
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Appium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Appium in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Appium.

Daily rate trend for Appium in the UK

Appium
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Appium over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Appium in the UK

Appium
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Appium.

Hourly rate trend for Appium in the UK

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Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Appium within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +106 49 £450 -6.25% 26
London +105 39 £450 -6.25% 12
Work from Home +105 18 £450 -8.16% 12
UK excluding London +48 9 £450 -10.00% 12
North of England +28 3 £500 +3.09% 4
South East +23 3 £425 +13.33% 2
Midlands +28 2 £450 -7.69% 2
North West +27 2 £500 +21.21% 1
West Midlands +22 2 £450 -7.69% 2
Scotland +37 1 £375 -30.23% 2
Yorkshire +16 1 £425 -12.37% 3

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (20.75%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (24.53%) GitHub
2 10 (18.87%) BrowserStack
3 8 (15.09%) Firebase
4 7 (13.21%) BlazeMeter
5 5 (9.43%) Sauce Labs
6 4 (7.55%) Azure
6 4 (7.55%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 3 (5.66%) AWS
7 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.77%) Bitrise
8 2 (3.77%) Datadog
8 2 (3.77%) GCP
8 2 (3.77%) Sentry
9 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 32 (60.38%) Selenium
2 28 (52.83%) Postman
3 20 (37.74%) Cucumber
4 19 (35.85%) Git
4 19 (35.85%) Jenkins
5 14 (26.42%) JUnit
6 13 (24.53%) JIRA
6 13 (24.53%) WebDriver
7 12 (22.64%) TestNG
8 11 (20.75%) REST Assured
8 11 (20.75%) SoapUI
9 10 (18.87%) eggPlant
9 10 (18.87%) GitLab
9 10 (18.87%) SOAtest
10 9 (16.98%) Cypress.io
11 7 (13.21%) JMeter
12 5 (9.43%) Bitbucket
12 5 (9.43%) XCUITest
13 4 (7.55%) SonarQube
14 3 (5.66%) Katalon Studio
General
1 27 (50.94%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Banking
4 4 (7.55%) Finance
4 4 (7.55%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.77%) Back Office
5 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.77%) Publishing
5 2 (3.77%) Retail
5 2 (3.77%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (22.64%) Automation Engineer
2 10 (18.87%) QA Engineer
2 10 (18.87%) Tester
3 8 (15.09%) Senior
4 6 (11.32%) Analyst
4 6 (11.32%) Mobile Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Test Analyst
5 4 (7.55%) Consultant
5 4 (7.55%) QA Tester
5 4 (7.55%) Test Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Automation Tester
6 3 (5.66%) Lead
6 3 (5.66%) Mobile Tester
6 3 (5.66%) QA Automation Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Senior Test Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Android Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Automation Consultant
7 2 (3.77%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (22.64%) .NET
2 11 (20.75%) WebdriverIO
3 10 (18.87%) .NET Framework
4 8 (15.09%) React Native
5 5 (9.43%) Middleware
5 5 (9.43%) REST
6 4 (7.55%) RESTful
7 3 (5.66%) Node.js
7 3 (5.66%) pytest
8 2 (3.77%) Behat
8 2 (3.77%) Playwright
8 2 (3.77%) SwiftUI
8 2 (3.77%) UIKit
8 2 (3.77%) Web Services
9 1 (1.89%) ARM Templates
9 1 (1.89%) Gherkin
9 1 (1.89%) JSON
9 1 (1.89%) Spring
9 1 (1.89%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (33.96%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.89%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.89%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 15 (28.30%) Android
2 12 (22.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (84.91%) Test Automation
2 30 (56.60%) Agile
3 28 (52.83%) CI/CD
4 19 (35.85%) Continuous Integration
5 17 (32.08%) Test Scripting
6 16 (30.19%) Software Testing
6 16 (30.19%) Test Strategy
7 15 (28.30%) BDD
8 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (20.75%) Continuous Deployment
10 10 (18.87%) API Testing
10 10 (18.87%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 9 (16.98%) ATDD
11 9 (16.98%) Performance Testing
11 9 (16.98%) TDD
11 9 (16.98%) User Stories
12 8 (15.09%) Defect Tracking
12 8 (15.09%) Scrum
12 8 (15.09%) Test Management
13 7 (13.21%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (39.62%) Java
2 17 (32.08%) C#
3 12 (22.64%) Kotlin
4 11 (20.75%) JavaScript
4 11 (20.75%) Swift
5 6 (11.32%) Python
6 2 (3.77%) PHP
6 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.89%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.75%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.55%) Degree
3 4 (7.55%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.89%) ISEB
5 1 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (43.40%) QA
2 6 (11.32%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) Ansible
2 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.89%) Puppet
2 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.43%) Perfecto Mobile
3 3 (5.66%) Checkmarx
3 3 (5.66%) HP
3 3 (5.66%) IBM
4 2 (3.77%) Apple
4 2 (3.77%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.77%) Google
4 2 (3.77%) Splunk
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle
5 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.89%) SAP