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 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 50 45 47
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 729 1,224 2,110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.16% 4.81% 5.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 5.29% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 893 1,579
10th Percentile £361 £418 £413
25th Percentile £425 £465 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -3.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £824 £813
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 11
10th Percentile £52.25 £73.75 £52.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £80.63 £55.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £90.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +14.29% +24.02%
75th Percentile £65.75 - £87.58
90th Percentile £71.88 - £91.50
England median hourly rate £60.00 £71.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.49% +18.33% +32.60%

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 15,465 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%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 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 +6 112 £525 -12.50% 19
East London 0 11 £540 -8.86% 7
South London -1 9 £464 -7.25% 3
West London +8 7 £375 -31.82% 5
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 (5.62%) Confluence
2 15 (2.06%) Apache Spark
2 15 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.78%) nginx
4 10 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.23%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.10%) SAS
7 6 (0.82%) CMS
8 5 (0.69%) Apache
9 4 (0.55%) OpenStack
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%) Hyperledger
12 1 (0.14%) IIS
12 1 (0.14%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.82%) Simulink
1 6 (0.82%) Stateflow
2 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.27%) Gliffy
4 2 (0.27%) Mingle
4 2 (0.27%) Trello
5 1 (0.14%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (1.65%) ION MarketView
2 6 (0.82%) Endur
3 5 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.69%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.41%) IntelliMatch
4 3 (0.41%) ION Anvil
5 2 (0.27%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
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
1 158 (21.67%) Azure
2 145 (19.89%) AWS
3 90 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
4 63 (8.64%) GitHub
5 41 (5.62%) Serverless
6 32 (4.39%) GCP
7 22 (3.02%) Power Platform
8 20 (2.74%) Entra ID
9 19 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (2.61%) PaaS
10 18 (2.47%) Amazon S3
11 17 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
13 15 (2.06%) Azure Functions
13 15 (2.06%) PowerApps
14 14 (1.92%) SaaS
15 13 (1.78%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (1.78%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.33%) Firewall
2 10 (1.37%) DNS
3 9 (1.23%) Internet
3 9 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (1.10%) 5G
5 7 (0.96%) VPN
6 5 (0.69%) HTTP
6 5 (0.69%) SSL
7 4 (0.55%) DHCP
7 4 (0.55%) VLAN
7 4 (0.55%) Wireless
8 3 (0.41%) IPv4
9 2 (0.27%) BGP
9 2 (0.27%) DKIM
9 2 (0.27%) DMARC
9 2 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (0.27%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.27%) MPLS
9 2 (0.27%) SMS
9 2 (0.27%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (8.92%) NoSQL
2 57 (7.82%) SQL Server
3 41 (5.62%) Relational Database
4 33 (4.53%) MongoDB
5 29 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (3.84%) KDB
7 22 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (2.61%) MySQL
9 16 (2.19%) Big Data
10 15 (2.06%) Data Lake
10 15 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (2.06%) Power BI
11 14 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (1.78%) DynamoDB
13 12 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
15 7 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.96%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.96%) RDBMS
16 6 (0.82%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 127 (17.42%) Selenium
2 120 (16.46%) Git
3 104 (14.27%) Jenkins
4 100 (13.72%) JIRA
5 77 (10.56%) Postman
6 67 (9.19%) Cucumber
7 50 (6.86%) Cypress.io
8 45 (6.17%) JMeter
9 43 (5.90%) SpecFlow
10 39 (5.35%) WebDriver
11 37 (5.08%) TeamCity
12 35 (4.80%) Appium
13 32 (4.39%) GitLab
14 28 (3.84%) Bitbucket
15 27 (3.70%) JUnit
16 26 (3.57%) Visual Studio
17 24 (3.29%) REST Assured
18 23 (3.16%) LoadRunner
19 20 (2.74%) TestNG
20 19 (2.61%) SoapUI
General
1 175 (24.01%) Social Skills
2 166 (22.77%) Finance
3 112 (15.36%) Banking
4 61 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (6.72%) Front Office
5 49 (6.72%) Public Sector
6 44 (6.04%) Back Office
7 41 (5.62%) Investment Banking
8 26 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.33%) Legal
10 15 (2.06%) Retail
11 12 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.65%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.37%) Retail Banking
13 9 (1.23%) Prime Brokerage
14 8 (1.10%) Law
15 6 (0.82%) Automotive
15 6 (0.82%) Marketing
15 6 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.82%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 206 (28.26%) Developer
2 143 (19.62%) Senior
3 91 (12.48%) Tester
4 74 (10.15%) Lead
5 63 (8.64%) Analyst
6 58 (7.96%) Java Developer
7 55 (7.54%) Test Engineer
8 51 (7.00%) Test Analyst
9 48 (6.58%) Automation Tester
10 46 (6.31%) Senior Developer
11 37 (5.08%) Senior Analyst
12 35 (4.80%) QA Engineer
12 35 (4.80%) Senior Test Analyst
13 32 (4.39%) Full Stack Developer
14 29 (3.98%) Software Engineer
14 29 (3.98%) Test Manager
15 27 (3.70%) Architect
15 27 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
15 27 (3.70%) Test Automation Engineer
16 25 (3.43%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (13.17%) .NET
2 65 (8.92%) REST
3 63 (8.64%) Kafka
4 52 (7.13%) React
5 47 (6.45%) HTML
6 46 (6.31%) CSS
6 46 (6.31%) Node.js
7 45 (6.17%) RESTful
8 42 (5.76%) .NET Framework
9 38 (5.21%) AngularJS
10 34 (4.66%) XML
11 31 (4.25%) Spring
11 31 (4.25%) Web Services
12 29 (3.98%) .NET Core
13 24 (3.29%) JSON
13 24 (3.29%) Middleware
14 22 (3.02%) GraphQL
15 20 (2.74%) Spring Boot
16 19 (2.61%) JAX-RS
17 18 (2.47%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.00%) Product Ownership
2 35 (4.80%) Mobile App
3 32 (4.39%) Derivative
4 28 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (3.57%) Algorithms
6 24 (3.29%) Equities
7 23 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (3.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 18 (2.47%) Fixed Income
10 16 (2.19%) Cloud Native
11 15 (2.06%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.78%) Hedge funds
13 13 (1.78%) Public Cloud
14 10 (1.37%) Onboarding
15 8 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (1.10%) Virtual Team
16 5 (0.69%) Client/Server
16 5 (0.69%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 75 (10.29%) Linux
2 51 (7.00%) Unix
3 36 (4.94%) Android
4 33 (4.53%) Windows
5 17 (2.33%) Apple iOS
6 15 (2.06%) Mac OS X
7 5 (0.69%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (43.62%) Agile
2 252 (34.57%) CI/CD
3 217 (29.77%) DevOps
4 148 (20.30%) Continuous Integration
5 127 (17.42%) TDD
6 114 (15.64%) Microservices
7 110 (15.09%) Software Testing
8 109 (14.95%) Scrum
9 93 (12.76%) BDD
9 93 (12.76%) Performance Testing
10 89 (12.21%) Test Strategy
11 85 (11.66%) Problem-Solving
12 81 (11.11%) Software Engineering
13 61 (8.37%) User Acceptance Testing
14 58 (7.96%) Computer Science
15 55 (7.54%) Test Scripting
16 52 (7.13%) Containerisation
17 51 (7.00%) Regression Testing
17 51 (7.00%) Unit Testing
18 50 (6.86%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 253 (34.71%) Java
2 182 (24.97%) Python
3 147 (20.16%) SQL
4 138 (18.93%) C#
5 110 (15.09%) JavaScript
6 63 (8.64%) TypeScript
7 44 (6.04%) PowerShell
8 35 (4.80%) C++
9 29 (3.98%) Kotlin
10 25 (3.43%) PHP
11 18 (2.47%) Bash
11 18 (2.47%) Go
12 16 (2.19%) Shell Script
13 15 (2.06%) Scala
14 14 (1.92%) Rust
15 13 (1.78%) C
16 10 (1.37%) Groovy
16 10 (1.37%) Perl
17 7 (0.96%) Ruby
17 7 (0.96%) Swift
Qualifications
1 82 (11.25%) Security Cleared
2 70 (9.60%) SC Cleared
3 66 (9.05%) Degree
4 18 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.65%) ISTQB
6 8 (1.10%) ISEB
6 8 (1.10%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.69%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (0.41%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.41%) CISSP
8 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.41%) PMP
9 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.27%) PhD
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.14%) OCP
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (16.32%) QA
2 32 (4.39%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.06%) 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%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.14%) JTAG
7 1 (0.14%) NCSC
7 1 (0.14%) NIST
7 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 84 (11.52%) Docker
2 24 (3.29%) 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 (11.80%) Kubernetes
2 55 (7.54%) Terraform
3 42 (5.76%) Ansible
4 24 (3.29%) Grafana
5 20 (2.74%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.78%) Puppet
7 7 (0.96%) Packer
7 7 (0.96%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.55%) Consul
9 4 (0.55%) Iperf
9 4 (0.55%) Kibana
9 4 (0.55%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.41%) logstash
10 3 (0.41%) Opsgenie
10 3 (0.41%) SCCM
11 2 (0.27%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (0.27%) Rancher
11 2 (0.27%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 98 (13.44%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.66%) Oracle
3 26 (3.57%) ION Trading
4 14 (1.92%) Google
5 13 (1.78%) TIBCO
6 11 (1.51%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.37%) Databricks
7 10 (1.37%) Splunk
8 9 (1.23%) Checkmarx
8 9 (1.23%) CyberArk
8 9 (1.23%) SAP
9 8 (1.10%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.10%) IBM
10 7 (0.96%) CA Agile Central
10 7 (0.96%) HP
11 5 (0.69%) iManage
11 5 (0.69%) Intapp
11 5 (0.69%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.69%) SimCorp
11 5 (0.69%) Tradeweb