Test Automation Jobs in Central London

Automated Testing
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation 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 84 73 39
Rank change year-on-year -11 -34 -8
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 119 211 544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 3.15% 4.02% 6.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.41% 4.24% 7.09%
Number of salaries quoted 86 186 444
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £76,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.92% +8.93% -6.67%
75th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £109,375 £101,250
London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £69,078
% change year-on-year -3.33% +8.57% -1.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central 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 permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,494 4,978 7,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 92.46% 94.84% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,720 4,118 6,420
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Central London

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Central London.

Salary trend for Test Automation in Central London

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Central London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Central London

Test Automation
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Central London region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -8 117 £80,000 +6.67% 17
City of Westminster -8 10 £75,000 -30.23% 1
West End of London +3 1 £38,000 -64.65% 4
Lambeth - 1 £85,000 -
Test Automation
London

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 5 (4.20%) Confluence
2 4 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.68%) Moodle
4 1 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.84%) IIS
4 1 (0.84%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.84%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (32.77%) AWS
2 25 (21.01%) Azure
3 18 (15.13%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (12.61%) SaaS
5 10 (8.40%) PaaS
5 10 (8.40%) Power Platform
6 9 (7.56%) GCP
7 8 (6.72%) Serverless
8 7 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (5.88%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.20%) Azure AKS
9 5 (4.20%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 5 (4.20%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.20%) IaaS
9 5 (4.20%) Snowflake
10 4 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.52%) AWS CodeCommit
11 3 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.20%) DNS
2 1 (0.84%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.08%) MongoDB
2 8 (6.72%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (6.72%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.04%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.20%) Big Data
4 5 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.20%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.36%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.36%) Metadata
5 4 (3.36%) Power BI
5 4 (3.36%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (2.52%) MySQL
7 2 (1.68%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.84%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.84%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.84%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (15.13%) JUnit
2 17 (14.29%) Git
3 16 (13.45%) Selenium
4 14 (11.76%) Jenkins
5 10 (8.40%) JMeter
6 8 (6.72%) JIRA
7 6 (5.04%) Cypress.io
8 5 (4.20%) Cucumber
9 4 (3.36%) Postman
9 4 (3.36%) WebDriver
10 3 (2.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (2.52%) GitLab
10 3 (2.52%) SoapUI
10 3 (2.52%) SpecFlow
11 2 (1.68%) JBehave
11 2 (1.68%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.68%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.84%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.84%) TestRail
12 1 (0.84%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 34 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 28 (23.53%) Finance
3 16 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.56%) Law
4 9 (7.56%) Marketing
5 7 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.20%) Banking
7 4 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.52%) Billing
8 3 (2.52%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.68%) Front Office
9 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.68%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.84%) Back Office
10 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.84%) Games
10 1 (0.84%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.84%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.84%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 35 (29.41%) Lead
2 25 (21.01%) Developer
3 19 (15.97%) Senior
4 8 (6.72%) Data Engineer
4 8 (6.72%) Software Engineer
5 6 (5.04%) JavaScript Developer
5 6 (5.04%) Senior Developer
5 6 (5.04%) Senior JavaScript Developer
6 5 (4.20%) Analyst
6 5 (4.20%) IT Director
6 5 (4.20%) Operations Director
6 5 (4.20%) Services Director
6 5 (4.20%) Tester
7 4 (3.36%) Architect
7 4 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.36%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (3.36%) QA Engineer
7 4 (3.36%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (17.65%) JSON
2 20 (16.81%) .NET
2 20 (16.81%) REST
3 14 (11.76%) React
4 12 (10.08%) HTML
5 10 (8.40%) Node.js
6 7 (5.88%) .NET Framework
6 7 (5.88%) jQuery
6 7 (5.88%) Web Services
7 6 (5.04%) Playwright
7 6 (5.04%) Spring
7 6 (5.04%) Spring Boot
8 5 (4.20%) CSS
8 5 (4.20%) RESTful
9 4 (3.36%) ASP.NET
9 4 (3.36%) Kafka
9 4 (3.36%) XML
10 3 (2.52%) Apache Thrift
10 3 (2.52%) Pandas
11 2 (1.68%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.20%) CMDB
1 5 (4.20%) Data Structures
2 3 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (2.52%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.68%) Hedge funds
3 2 (1.68%) Learning Management System
3 2 (1.68%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.68%) Reference Data
4 1 (0.84%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.84%) Bitcoin
4 1 (0.84%) Derivative
4 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.84%) PropTech
4 1 (0.84%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.52%) Linux
1 3 (2.52%) Windows
2 1 (0.84%) Android
2 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (58.82%) Agile
2 34 (28.57%) DevOps
3 28 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 27 (22.69%) SDET
5 26 (21.85%) Test Strategy
6 22 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (15.97%) Software Testing
8 18 (15.13%) OO
8 18 (15.13%) Unit Testing
9 16 (13.45%) Test Planning
10 15 (12.61%) ITIL
10 15 (12.61%) Mentoring
11 14 (11.76%) Computer Science
11 14 (11.76%) Scrum
12 13 (10.92%) Full Stack Development
12 13 (10.92%) Microservices
12 13 (10.92%) Software Engineering
13 12 (10.08%) Code Quality
13 12 (10.08%) Decision-Making
14 11 (9.24%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 35 (29.41%) Java
2 29 (24.37%) JavaScript
3 27 (22.69%) Python
4 21 (17.65%) SQL
5 12 (10.08%) C#
6 7 (5.88%) PHP
6 7 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.20%) C++
8 4 (3.36%) Go
8 4 (3.36%) Scala
9 3 (2.52%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.68%) C
10 2 (1.68%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.84%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.84%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (13.45%) Degree
2 13 (10.92%) Security Cleared
3 12 (10.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.20%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (3.36%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.68%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (1.68%) MCAD
7 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.84%) ISEB
8 1 (0.84%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.84%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.29%) QA
2 8 (6.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.04%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.68%) ITGC
4 2 (1.68%) SOC 1
4 2 (1.68%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.84%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.84%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (11.76%) Terraform
2 11 (9.24%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.52%) Packer
4 1 (0.84%) cPanel
Vendors
1 6 (5.04%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.20%) Automation Anywhere
2 5 (4.20%) Blue Prism
2 5 (4.20%) Google
2 5 (4.20%) UiPath
3 3 (2.52%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.52%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.68%) Oracle
5 1 (0.84%) BEA
5 1 (0.84%) Brio
5 1 (0.84%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.84%) Databricks
5 1 (0.84%) DocuSign
5 1 (0.84%) IBM
5 1 (0.84%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.84%) Solace
5 1 (0.84%) Splunk
5 1 (0.84%) Spotify
5 1 (0.84%) TIBCO