Automation Tester Jobs in England

Automation Tester
UK > England

The median Automation Tester salary in England is £58,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 763 808 796
Rank change year-on-year +45 -12 -189
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Tester 81 139 364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.095% 0.15% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.16% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 50 125 208
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £71,563 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £74,600 £71,250
UK median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% +15.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 80,507 84,319 127,438
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,203 53,445 75,746
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,799 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,761 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in England

Automation Tester
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Automation Tester in England.

Salary trend for Automation Tester in England

Automation Tester
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Tester in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Automation Tester in England

Automation Tester
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Tester within the England 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
South East +27 43 £63,750 -3.77% 2
London +94 22 £61,250 -2.00% 4
North of England +42 16 £46,250 +2.78% 2
North West +10 8 £47,500 +5.56%
Yorkshire +84 5 £45,000 +1.12% 2
North East -6 3 £47,500 -
East of England +17 2 £49,500 +10.00% 1
West Midlands +7 2 £45,000 -18.18% 1
Midlands +4 2 £45,000 -18.18% 2
Automation Tester
UK

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Automation Tester 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 permanent job ads across the England region featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 81 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 64 (79.01%) Selenium
3 56 (69.14%) Agile
4 42 (51.85%) Security Cleared
5 38 (46.91%) Java
6 36 (44.44%) QA
7 33 (40.74%) Cucumber
8 29 (35.80%) CI/CD
9 28 (34.57%) Software Testing
10 27 (33.33%) Scrum
10 27 (33.33%) API Testing
11 26 (32.10%) REST Assured
11 26 (32.10%) Test Scripting
12 24 (29.63%) Mentoring
12 24 (29.63%) Coaching
12 24 (29.63%) JavaScript
13 23 (28.40%) Requirements Analysis
13 23 (28.40%) Technical Analysis
13 23 (28.40%) Test Assurance
13 23 (28.40%) Actionable Insight
14 22 (27.16%) SDET
14 22 (27.16%) BDD
15 21 (25.93%) TestNG
15 21 (25.93%) SC Cleared
15 21 (25.93%) DV Cleared
16 20 (24.69%) WebDriver
17 19 (23.46%) REST
17 19 (23.46%) Aerospace
17 19 (23.46%) JUnit
17 19 (23.46%) Collaborative Working

Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (18.52%) Apache
2 1 (1.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.05%) GitHub
2 11 (13.58%) SaaS
3 9 (11.11%) AWS
4 7 (8.64%) Azure
5 5 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.47%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.23%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.23%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.23%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.23%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.23%) Power BI
2 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 64 (79.01%) Selenium
2 33 (40.74%) Cucumber
3 26 (32.10%) REST Assured
4 21 (25.93%) TestNG
5 20 (24.69%) WebDriver
6 19 (23.46%) JUnit
7 15 (18.52%) SoapUI
8 14 (17.28%) Jenkins
9 11 (13.58%) JIRA
10 10 (12.35%) JMeter
11 8 (9.88%) Appium
11 8 (9.88%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (9.88%) Postman
11 8 (9.88%) Serenity BDD
12 7 (8.64%) Bitbucket
12 7 (8.64%) Git
12 7 (8.64%) SpecFlow
13 4 (4.94%) Protractor
14 3 (3.70%) Cypress.io
14 3 (3.70%) Maven
General
1 19 (23.46%) Aerospace
2 10 (12.35%) Public Sector
2 10 (12.35%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.47%) Banking
4 2 (2.47%) Front Office
4 2 (2.47%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.23%) Finance
5 1 (1.23%) Games
5 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.23%) Law
5 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (23.46%) REST
2 17 (20.99%) WireMock
3 15 (18.52%) Apache Commons
3 15 (18.52%) Guava
3 15 (18.52%) Java Concurrency
4 9 (11.11%) Web Services
5 8 (9.88%) RESTful
5 8 (9.88%) SOAP
6 7 (8.64%) Gherkin
7 6 (7.41%) .NET
8 4 (4.94%) Playwright
9 2 (2.47%) ASP.NET
9 2 (2.47%) ASP.NET MVC
10 1 (1.23%) .NET Framework
10 1 (1.23%) ADO
10 1 (1.23%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1 (1.23%) CSS
10 1 (1.23%) HTML
10 1 (1.23%) jQuery
10 1 (1.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.94%) Client/Server
1 4 (4.94%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 56 (69.14%) Agile
3 29 (35.80%) CI/CD
4 28 (34.57%) Software Testing
5 27 (33.33%) API Testing
5 27 (33.33%) Scrum
6 26 (32.10%) Test Scripting
7 24 (29.63%) Coaching
7 24 (29.63%) Mentoring
8 23 (28.40%) Actionable Insight
8 23 (28.40%) Requirements Analysis
8 23 (28.40%) Technical Analysis
8 23 (28.40%) Test Assurance
9 22 (27.16%) BDD
9 22 (27.16%) SDET
10 19 (23.46%) Collaborative Working
11 18 (22.22%) Code Quality
12 17 (20.99%) Scenario Testing
13 15 (18.52%) Containerisation
13 15 (18.52%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 38 (46.91%) Java
2 24 (29.63%) JavaScript
3 12 (14.81%) C#
3 12 (14.81%) SQL
4 4 (4.94%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.70%) Python
6 2 (2.47%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.23%) Scala
7 1 (1.23%) VB
7 1 (1.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (51.85%) Security Cleared
2 21 (25.93%) DV Cleared
2 21 (25.93%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.41%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.94%) ISEB
5 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (44.44%) QA
2 4 (4.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (20.99%) Docker
2 2 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (19.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.23%) Ansible
2 1 (1.23%) Consul
2 1 (1.23%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (3.70%) Oracle
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.23%) Databricks
3 1 (1.23%) HP