Appium Contracts

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 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 515 614 755
Rank change year-on-year +99 +141 -112
Contract jobs citing Appium 60 68 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.12% 0.095%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.16% 0.84% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 51 61
10th Percentile £325 £375 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% +2.11% +18.75%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £575
90th Percentile £550 £588 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -7.32% +13.89% +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 8,073 15,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.40% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,455 5,696 11,047
10th Percentile £351 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £457 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 226 201
10th Percentile £26.77 £44.82 £38.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +8.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Appium over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Appium in the UK

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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 10 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 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
England +83 55 £465 -3.13% 16
London +97 46 £459 -4.43% 4
Work from Home +99 20 £452 -7.76% 9
UK excluding London +28 8 £475 -7.32% 14
South East +12 3 £425 +13.33% 4
Scotland +34 2 £375 -30.23% 3
North West +21 2 £500 +21.21% 4
North of England +18 2 £500 +3.09% 6
Midlands +21 1 £450 -7.69% 1
West Midlands +12 1 £450 -7.69%

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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 14 (23.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.33%) BrowserStack
2 13 (21.67%) GitHub
3 12 (20.00%) Firebase
4 11 (18.33%) BlazeMeter
5 8 (13.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 5 (8.33%) Sauce Labs
7 4 (6.67%) Azure
8 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.00%) GCP
9 2 (3.33%) AWS
9 2 (3.33%) Bitrise
9 2 (3.33%) Datadog
9 2 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.33%) Sentry
10 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (58.33%) Selenium
2 33 (55.00%) Postman
3 23 (38.33%) Jenkins
4 21 (35.00%) Git
5 18 (30.00%) Cucumber
6 17 (28.33%) JIRA
7 14 (23.33%) GitLab
7 14 (23.33%) JUnit
7 14 (23.33%) WebDriver
8 12 (20.00%) TestNG
9 11 (18.33%) REST Assured
9 11 (18.33%) SoapUI
10 10 (16.67%) Cypress.io
10 10 (16.67%) eggPlant
10 10 (16.67%) JMeter
10 10 (16.67%) SOAtest
11 7 (11.67%) SonarQube
12 5 (8.33%) Bitbucket
12 5 (8.33%) Visual Studio
13 4 (6.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 29 (48.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.33%) Banking
4 4 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Back Office
5 3 (5.00%) Finance
6 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.33%) Publishing
6 2 (3.33%) Retail
6 2 (3.33%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (23.33%) Tester
2 12 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
3 10 (16.67%) QA Engineer
4 9 (15.00%) Senior
5 8 (13.33%) Analyst
6 7 (11.67%) Mobile Engineer
6 7 (11.67%) QA Tester
6 7 (11.67%) Test Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Automation Tester
7 4 (6.67%) Consultant
7 4 (6.67%) Mobile Tester
7 4 (6.67%) QA Automation Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Test Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Test Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Automation Test Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Developer
8 3 (5.00%) QA Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.00%) WebdriverIO
2 12 (20.00%) .NET
3 10 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 9 (15.00%) Middleware
5 8 (13.33%) React Native
6 6 (10.00%) Node.js
6 6 (10.00%) RESTful
7 4 (6.67%) REST
8 3 (5.00%) pytest
9 2 (3.33%) SwiftUI
9 2 (3.33%) UIKit
9 2 (3.33%) Web Services
10 1 (1.67%) .NET Core
10 1 (1.67%) ARM Templates
10 1 (1.67%) JSON
10 1 (1.67%) SOAP
10 1 (1.67%) Spring
10 1 (1.67%) WinForms
10 1 (1.67%) WPF
10 1 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.67%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.67%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 18 (30.00%) Android
2 16 (26.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (81.67%) Test Automation
2 38 (63.33%) Agile
3 29 (48.33%) CI/CD
4 26 (43.33%) Continuous Integration
5 19 (31.67%) Software Testing
6 17 (28.33%) Test Scripting
6 17 (28.33%) Test Strategy
7 16 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (23.33%) BDD
8 14 (23.33%) Performance Testing
8 14 (23.33%) Scrum
9 12 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
9 12 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 12 (20.00%) Test Management
10 11 (18.33%) API Testing
10 11 (18.33%) Continuous Deployment
10 11 (18.33%) Defect Tracking
11 10 (16.67%) Manual Testing
11 10 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 10 (16.67%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.00%) Java
2 18 (30.00%) C#
3 12 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 12 (20.00%) Swift
4 11 (18.33%) Kotlin
5 6 (10.00%) Python
6 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.67%) Bash
7 1 (1.67%) SQL
7 1 (1.67%) VB
7 1 (1.67%) VB6
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.67%) Degree
4 3 (5.00%) ISTQB
4 3 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.67%) ISEB
5 1 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (43.33%) QA
2 5 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Ansible
2 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.67%) Puppet
2 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.00%) Checkmarx
3 5 (8.33%) Perfecto Mobile
4 4 (6.67%) HP
4 4 (6.67%) IBM
5 3 (5.00%) Google
6 2 (3.33%) Apple
6 2 (3.33%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.33%) Oracle
6 2 (3.33%) Splunk
7 1 (1.67%) Infragistics
7 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.67%) SAP