Test Automation Engineer Contracts in London

Automation Test Engineer
England > London

The median Automation Test Engineer daily rate in London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 422 530
Rank change year-on-year +49 +108 -71
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 27 60 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.24% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.25% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 53 51
10th Percentile £358 £400 £420
25th Percentile £395 £456 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £583 £625
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% -6.80% +35.14%
75th Percentile £538 £700 £700
90th Percentile £574 £738 £825
England median daily rate £463 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -13.95% - +26.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Test Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Engineer in London

Test Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation Engineer in London

Test Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation Engineer in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation Engineer in London

Test Automation Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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 +34 5 £456 -13.10%
South London - 1 £410 -
Test Automation Engineer
England

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Test Automation Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 15 (55.56%) Java
2 15 (55.56%) Selenium
3 8 (29.63%) Agile
3 8 (29.63%) Software Testing
3 8 (29.63%) Python
4 6 (22.22%) Test Scripting
4 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 5 (18.52%) Postman
5 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
5 5 (18.52%) Azure
5 5 (18.52%) Docker
5 5 (18.52%) Jenkins
5 5 (18.52%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (18.52%) Finance
5 5 (18.52%) Regression Testing
6 4 (14.81%) SQL
6 4 (14.81%) .NET
6 4 (14.81%) Performance Testing
6 4 (14.81%) QA
6 4 (14.81%) C#
6 4 (14.81%) Banking
6 4 (14.81%) Retail
6 4 (14.81%) Mobile App
6 4 (14.81%) TypeScript
6 4 (14.81%) SDLC
6 4 (14.81%) SDET

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
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 (3.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.41%) AWS
3 2 (7.41%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.70%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) MQTT
1 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (55.56%) Selenium
2 5 (18.52%) Jenkins
2 5 (18.52%) Postman
3 4 (14.81%) Cypress.io
3 4 (14.81%) REST Assured
4 3 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 3 (11.11%) Git
4 3 (11.11%) NUnit
5 2 (7.41%) Appium
5 2 (7.41%) HP UFT
5 2 (7.41%) JIRA
5 2 (7.41%) JUnit
5 2 (7.41%) SpecFlow
5 2 (7.41%) TestNG
5 2 (7.41%) Visual Studio
5 2 (7.41%) WebDriver
6 1 (3.70%) IntelliJ
6 1 (3.70%) JMeter
6 1 (3.70%) Log4Net
6 1 (3.70%) Maven
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
3 4 (14.81%) Banking
3 4 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (14.81%) Retail
4 2 (7.41%) Electronics
4 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.41%) Marketing
4 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Aviation
5 1 (3.70%) Back Office
5 1 (3.70%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) .NET
2 3 (11.11%) Playwright
3 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
3 2 (7.41%) Gherkin
3 2 (7.41%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.70%) Kafka
4 1 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.70%) Derivative
2 1 (3.70%) Fat Client
2 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.70%) Machine to Machine
2 1 (3.70%) Market Risk
2 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (3.70%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Android
2 2 (7.41%) Windows
3 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.70%) Linux
3 1 (3.70%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (29.63%) Agile
2 8 (29.63%) Software Testing
3 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 6 (22.22%) Test Scripting
4 5 (18.52%) Regression Testing
4 5 (18.52%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (14.81%) BDD
5 4 (14.81%) DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) Performance Testing
5 4 (14.81%) SDET
5 4 (14.81%) SDLC
5 4 (14.81%) Unit Testing
6 3 (11.11%) API Testing
6 3 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (11.11%) Manual Testing
6 3 (11.11%) Scrum
6 3 (11.11%) Test Strategy
7 2 (7.41%) Programme Management
7 2 (7.41%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) Java
2 8 (29.63%) Python
3 4 (14.81%) C#
3 4 (14.81%) SQL
3 4 (14.81%) TypeScript
4 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) Accessibility
1 4 (14.81%) QA
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) iptables
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (3.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) SAP
2 1 (3.70%) Adobe
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Qualtrics
2 1 (3.70%) Splunk
2 1 (3.70%) Spotify