Test Automation Jobs in the City of London

Automated Testing
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 61 36
Rank change year-on-year -13 -25 -9
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 117 222 505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 3.48% 4.63% 7.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 4.87% 7.56%
Number of salaries quoted 83 200 414
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,375 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £103,750 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £114,500 £110,125 £101,250
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.45% +6.90% -3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,105 4,561 6,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 92.41% 95.22% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,481 3,835 5,583
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,850 £45,044
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the City of London

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in the City of London.

Salary trend for Test Automation in the City of London

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the City of London

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (4.27%) Confluence
2 4 (3.42%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.71%) Moodle
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.85%) IIS
4 1 (0.85%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (32.48%) AWS
2 24 (20.51%) Azure
3 17 (14.53%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (12.82%) SaaS
5 10 (8.55%) Power Platform
6 9 (7.69%) PaaS
7 8 (6.84%) GCP
7 8 (6.84%) Serverless
8 7 (5.98%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (5.98%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.27%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 5 (4.27%) Snowflake
10 4 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.42%) Azure AKS
10 4 (3.42%) Entra ID
10 4 (3.42%) IaaS
11 3 (2.56%) AWS CodeCommit
11 3 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.42%) DNS
2 1 (0.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.26%) MongoDB
2 8 (6.84%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (6.84%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.13%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.27%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.42%) Big Data
5 4 (3.42%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.42%) Power BI
5 4 (3.42%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (2.56%) Metadata
6 3 (2.56%) MySQL
7 2 (1.71%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.85%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (14.53%) Git
1 17 (14.53%) Jenkins
1 17 (14.53%) JUnit
2 16 (13.68%) Selenium
3 9 (7.69%) JMeter
4 8 (6.84%) JIRA
5 7 (5.98%) Cypress.io
6 5 (4.27%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.27%) Postman
6 5 (4.27%) WebDriver
7 4 (3.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (2.56%) GitLab
8 3 (2.56%) SoapUI
8 3 (2.56%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.71%) JBehave
9 2 (1.71%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.71%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.85%) Bugzilla
10 1 (0.85%) NUnit
10 1 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 32 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 27 (23.08%) Finance
3 16 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.69%) Law
5 8 (6.84%) Marketing
6 7 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.27%) Banking
8 4 (3.42%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.56%) Billing
10 2 (1.71%) Front Office
10 2 (1.71%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.71%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.85%) Back Office
11 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.85%) Games
11 1 (0.85%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (32.48%) Lead
2 25 (21.37%) Developer
3 19 (16.24%) Senior
4 8 (6.84%) Data Engineer
5 7 (5.98%) Software Engineer
6 6 (5.13%) JavaScript Developer
6 6 (5.13%) Senior Developer
6 6 (5.13%) Senior JavaScript Developer
7 5 (4.27%) IT Director
7 5 (4.27%) Operations Director
7 5 (4.27%) Services Director
8 4 (3.42%) Analyst
8 4 (3.42%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (3.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.42%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (3.42%) QA Leader
8 4 (3.42%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (19.66%) JSON
2 22 (18.80%) REST
3 19 (16.24%) .NET
4 15 (12.82%) React
5 12 (10.26%) HTML
6 9 (7.69%) jQuery
6 9 (7.69%) Node.js
7 8 (6.84%) Web Services
8 7 (5.98%) .NET Framework
9 6 (5.13%) Playwright
9 6 (5.13%) Spring
9 6 (5.13%) Spring Boot
10 5 (4.27%) CSS
10 5 (4.27%) RESTful
11 4 (3.42%) Apache Thrift
11 4 (3.42%) ASP.NET
11 4 (3.42%) XML
12 3 (2.56%) Kafka
12 3 (2.56%) Pandas
13 2 (1.71%) Itk
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.27%) CMDB
1 5 (4.27%) Data Structures
2 3 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (1.71%) Hedge funds
3 2 (1.71%) Learning Management System
3 2 (1.71%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.71%) Reference Data
4 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.85%) PropTech
4 1 (0.85%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.56%) Linux
1 3 (2.56%) Windows
2 1 (0.85%) Android
2 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (59.83%) Agile
2 32 (27.35%) DevOps
3 30 (25.64%) CI/CD
4 28 (23.93%) SDET
4 28 (23.93%) Test Strategy
5 21 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (17.09%) Software Testing
7 17 (14.53%) Test Planning
7 17 (14.53%) Unit Testing
8 16 (13.68%) Mentoring
8 16 (13.68%) OO
9 14 (11.97%) Full Stack Development
9 14 (11.97%) ITIL
9 14 (11.97%) Scrum
10 13 (11.11%) Computer Science
11 12 (10.26%) Code Quality
11 12 (10.26%) Microservices
11 12 (10.26%) Software Engineering
12 10 (8.55%) Decision-Making
12 10 (8.55%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 35 (29.91%) Java
2 33 (28.21%) JavaScript
3 26 (22.22%) Python
4 21 (17.95%) SQL
5 12 (10.26%) C#
6 9 (7.69%) PHP
7 7 (5.98%) PowerShell
7 7 (5.98%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.42%) C++
8 4 (3.42%) Go
8 4 (3.42%) Scala
9 2 (1.71%) C
9 2 (1.71%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.71%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.85%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.85%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (12.82%) Degree
2 13 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 11 (9.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (5.98%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.27%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (3.42%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.71%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (1.71%) MCAD
7 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.85%) ISEB
8 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.85%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.53%) QA
2 6 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.27%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.85%) ITGC
4 1 (0.85%) SOC 1
4 1 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (5.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (11.11%) Terraform
2 9 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.56%) Packer
4 1 (0.85%) cPanel
Vendors
1 6 (5.13%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.27%) Automation Anywhere
2 5 (4.27%) Blue Prism
2 5 (4.27%) UiPath
3 4 (3.42%) Google
4 3 (2.56%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.56%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.71%) Oracle
6 1 (0.85%) Brio
6 1 (0.85%) Databricks
6 1 (0.85%) DocuSign
6 1 (0.85%) IBM
6 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.85%) Solace
6 1 (0.85%) Splunk
6 1 (0.85%) TIBCO