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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 44 47
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 735 1,220 2,128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.16% 4.83% 5.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 5.31% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 887 1,594
10th Percentile £362 £413 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.87% -2.92% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £707 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £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 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +31.15%

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 15,579 22,987 35,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.96% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,152 16,646 26,360
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £447 £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 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 266 401
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +3.21%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.75
90th Percentile £68.30 £82.38 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +44.00% +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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +6 114 £525 -12.50% 19
East London +1 11 £540 -28.00% 6
South London 0 9 £464 -7.25% 2
West London +9 7 £375 -30.88% 6
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 (5.58%) Confluence
2 15 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.77%) nginx
5 10 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.22%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.09%) SAS
8 6 (0.82%) CMS
9 5 (0.68%) Apache
10 4 (0.54%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.41%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
12 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
13 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
13 1 (0.14%) Hyperledger
13 1 (0.14%) IIS
13 1 (0.14%) MQSeries
13 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.82%) Simulink
1 6 (0.82%) Stateflow
2 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.27%) Gliffy
3 2 (0.27%) Mingle
3 2 (0.27%) Trello
4 1 (0.14%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (1.63%) 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
5 2 (0.27%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.14%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.14%) RMDS
6 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 159 (21.63%) Azure
2 148 (20.14%) AWS
3 91 (12.38%) Azure DevOps
4 63 (8.57%) GitHub
5 41 (5.58%) Serverless
6 32 (4.35%) GCP
7 22 (2.99%) Power Platform
8 20 (2.72%) Entra ID
9 19 (2.59%) Amazon S3
9 19 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (2.59%) PaaS
10 17 (2.31%) Azure Service Bus
11 16 (2.18%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (2.04%) Azure Functions
12 15 (2.04%) PowerApps
13 14 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (1.90%) SaaS
14 13 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (1.77%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.31%) Firewall
2 10 (1.36%) DNS
3 9 (1.22%) Internet
3 9 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (1.09%) 5G
5 7 (0.95%) VPN
6 5 (0.68%) HTTP
6 5 (0.68%) SSL
7 4 (0.54%) DHCP
7 4 (0.54%) VLAN
7 4 (0.54%) 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 (8.84%) NoSQL
2 57 (7.76%) SQL Server
3 42 (5.71%) Relational Database
4 33 (4.49%) MongoDB
5 29 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (3.67%) KDB
7 23 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (2.45%) MySQL
9 15 (2.04%) Big Data
9 15 (2.04%) Power BI
10 14 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 14 (1.90%) Data Lake
10 14 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.77%) DynamoDB
12 9 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
13 7 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.95%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.95%) RDBMS
14 6 (0.82%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 127 (17.28%) Selenium
2 122 (16.60%) Git
3 104 (14.15%) Jenkins
4 101 (13.74%) JIRA
5 78 (10.61%) Postman
6 67 (9.12%) Cucumber
7 50 (6.80%) Cypress.io
8 46 (6.26%) JMeter
9 44 (5.99%) SpecFlow
10 39 (5.31%) WebDriver
11 36 (4.90%) TeamCity
12 35 (4.76%) Appium
13 32 (4.35%) GitLab
14 28 (3.81%) Bitbucket
14 28 (3.81%) JUnit
15 27 (3.67%) Visual Studio
16 24 (3.27%) LoadRunner
16 24 (3.27%) REST Assured
17 20 (2.72%) TestNG
18 19 (2.59%) SoapUI
General
1 174 (23.67%) Social Skills
2 167 (22.72%) Finance
3 116 (15.78%) Banking
4 62 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (6.80%) Front Office
6 49 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 45 (6.12%) Back Office
8 42 (5.71%) Investment Banking
9 27 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (2.31%) Legal
11 15 (2.04%) Retail
12 12 (1.63%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.36%) Retail Banking
15 9 (1.22%) Prime Brokerage
16 8 (1.09%) Law
17 6 (0.82%) Automotive
17 6 (0.82%) Marketing
17 6 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.82%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 208 (28.30%) Developer
2 145 (19.73%) Senior
3 91 (12.38%) Tester
4 74 (10.07%) Lead
5 65 (8.84%) Analyst
6 59 (8.03%) Java Developer
7 55 (7.48%) Test Engineer
8 53 (7.21%) Test Analyst
9 48 (6.53%) Automation Tester
10 46 (6.26%) Senior Developer
11 38 (5.17%) Senior Analyst
12 36 (4.90%) QA Engineer
12 36 (4.90%) Senior Test Analyst
13 32 (4.35%) Full Stack Developer
14 29 (3.95%) Software Engineer
15 28 (3.81%) Test Manager
16 27 (3.67%) Architect
16 27 (3.67%) Test Automation Engineer
17 26 (3.54%) DevOps Engineer
18 25 (3.40%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (13.06%) .NET
2 67 (9.12%) REST
3 63 (8.57%) Kafka
4 53 (7.21%) React
5 47 (6.39%) HTML
6 46 (6.26%) CSS
6 46 (6.26%) Node.js
7 45 (6.12%) RESTful
8 42 (5.71%) .NET Framework
9 38 (5.17%) AngularJS
10 34 (4.63%) XML
11 31 (4.22%) Spring
11 31 (4.22%) Web Services
12 29 (3.95%) .NET Core
13 25 (3.40%) Middleware
14 24 (3.27%) JSON
15 22 (2.99%) GraphQL
16 21 (2.86%) Spring Boot
17 19 (2.59%) JAX-RS
17 19 (2.59%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.80%) Product Ownership
2 35 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 32 (4.35%) Derivative
4 29 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (3.54%) Algorithms
6 24 (3.27%) Equities
6 24 (3.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 23 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (2.59%) Fixed Income
9 15 (2.04%) Cloud Native
9 15 (2.04%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.77%) Hedge funds
12 12 (1.63%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.22%) Onboarding
14 8 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.09%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.68%) Client/Server
15 5 (0.68%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 75 (10.20%) Linux
2 50 (6.80%) Unix
3 35 (4.76%) Android
3 35 (4.76%) Windows
4 16 (2.18%) Apple iOS
5 15 (2.04%) Mac OS X
6 5 (0.68%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (43.81%) Agile
2 255 (34.69%) CI/CD
3 221 (30.07%) DevOps
4 148 (20.14%) Continuous Integration
5 131 (17.82%) TDD
6 114 (15.51%) Microservices
7 110 (14.97%) Scrum
7 110 (14.97%) Software Testing
8 96 (13.06%) BDD
9 95 (12.93%) Performance Testing
10 90 (12.24%) Test Strategy
11 86 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
12 82 (11.16%) Software Engineering
13 62 (8.44%) User Acceptance Testing
14 55 (7.48%) Computer Science
15 54 (7.35%) Test Scripting
16 51 (6.94%) Containerisation
16 51 (6.94%) Full Stack Development
16 51 (6.94%) Regression Testing
16 51 (6.94%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 252 (34.29%) Java
2 177 (24.08%) Python
3 148 (20.14%) SQL
4 136 (18.50%) C#
5 109 (14.83%) JavaScript
6 63 (8.57%) TypeScript
7 46 (6.26%) PowerShell
8 34 (4.63%) C++
9 29 (3.95%) Kotlin
10 24 (3.27%) PHP
11 19 (2.59%) Go
12 18 (2.45%) Bash
13 16 (2.18%) Shell Script
14 15 (2.04%) Scala
15 14 (1.90%) Rust
16 13 (1.77%) C
17 11 (1.50%) Groovy
18 9 (1.22%) Perl
19 7 (0.95%) Ruby
19 7 (0.95%) Swift
Qualifications
1 82 (11.16%) Security Cleared
2 71 (9.66%) SC Cleared
3 63 (8.57%) Degree
4 17 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.63%) ISTQB
6 8 (1.09%) ISEB
7 7 (0.95%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (0.54%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.41%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.41%) CISSP
10 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.41%) PMP
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.14%) OCP
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (16.19%) QA
2 33 (4.49%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.90%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.95%) WCAG
5 6 (0.82%) HL7
6 3 (0.41%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.27%) NIST
7 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.14%) JTAG
8 1 (0.14%) NCSC
8 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 84 (11.43%) Docker
2 25 (3.40%) 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 85 (11.56%) Kubernetes
2 55 (7.48%) Terraform
3 43 (5.85%) Ansible
4 24 (3.27%) Grafana
5 20 (2.72%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.77%) Puppet
7 7 (0.95%) Packer
7 7 (0.95%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.54%) Consul
9 4 (0.54%) Iperf
9 4 (0.54%) Kibana
9 4 (0.54%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.54%) 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%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.27%) vRealize
Vendors
1 102 (13.88%) Microsoft
2 33 (4.49%) Oracle
3 26 (3.54%) ION Trading
4 14 (1.90%) Google
5 13 (1.77%) TIBCO
6 10 (1.36%) CyberArk
6 10 (1.36%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.36%) Splunk
7 9 (1.22%) Checkmarx
7 9 (1.22%) Databricks
7 9 (1.22%) SAP
8 8 (1.09%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.09%) IBM
9 7 (0.95%) CA Agile Central
9 7 (0.95%) HP
10 5 (0.68%) Confluent
10 5 (0.68%) iManage
10 5 (0.68%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.68%) SimCorp
10 5 (0.68%) Tradeweb