QA Automation Engineer Jobs in England

Automation QA Engineer
UK > England

The median Automation QA Engineer salary in England is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 811 773 895
Rank change year-on-year -38 +122 -196
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 31 156 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.036% 0.17% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.18% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 29 135 193
10th Percentile £36,100 £35,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £64,000 £79,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +2.44%

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 80,536 84,581 127,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 60,273 53,585 75,560
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,595 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £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 £71,820 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

QA Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Engineer in England

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for QA Automation Engineer in England

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation Engineer in England

QA Automation Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +34 12 £55,000 - 4
South East +6 5 £52,500 -8.70% 1
South West -30 5 £57,500 +76.92% 2
West Midlands +21 3 £40,000 -27.27%
East of England +10 3 £37,500 -
Midlands +4 3 £40,000 -27.27%
North of England +40 2 £62,500 +38.89% 2
Yorkshire +92 1 - - 2
North West +1 1 £62,500 +38.89%
QA Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, QA Automation Engineer 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 QA Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) QA
1 31 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 21 (67.74%) Agile
2 21 (67.74%) QA Automation
3 18 (58.06%) Java
4 16 (51.61%) Cucumber
5 14 (45.16%) BDD
5 14 (45.16%) Selenium
6 12 (38.71%) Python
7 11 (35.48%) Test Strategy
7 11 (35.48%) API Testing
8 10 (32.26%) CI/CD
8 10 (32.26%) Software Testing
8 10 (32.26%) Azure
8 10 (32.26%) AWS
9 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
9 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (25.81%) Postman
10 8 (25.81%) TDD
10 8 (25.81%) SDLC
11 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (22.58%) Scrum
11 7 (22.58%) Spring
11 7 (22.58%) Test Scripting
12 6 (19.35%) Appium
12 6 (19.35%) Spring Boot
12 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
12 6 (19.35%) Docker
12 6 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (16.13%) User Experience

QA Automation Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) AWS
1 10 (32.26%) Azure
2 3 (9.68%) SaaS
3 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) BrowserStack
4 1 (3.23%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
1 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
1 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.23%) MySQL
2 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (51.61%) Cucumber
2 14 (45.16%) Selenium
3 8 (25.81%) Postman
4 6 (19.35%) Appium
4 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
5 5 (16.13%) JMeter
5 5 (16.13%) JUnit
6 4 (12.90%) Cypress.io
7 3 (9.68%) Mockito
8 2 (6.45%) Git
8 2 (6.45%) GitLab
8 2 (6.45%) JIRA
8 2 (6.45%) UI Automator
9 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
9 1 (3.23%) GoogleTest
9 1 (3.23%) SoapUI
9 1 (3.23%) SonarQube
9 1 (3.23%) SpecFlow
9 1 (3.23%) Spock
9 1 (3.23%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Automotive
4 3 (9.68%) Finance
4 3 (9.68%) Health Technology
4 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.45%) Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) Spring
2 6 (19.35%) Spring Boot
3 3 (9.68%) Playwright
3 3 (9.68%) Web Services
3 3 (9.68%) WireMock
4 2 (6.45%) pytest
4 2 (6.45%) React
4 2 (6.45%) REST
5 1 (3.23%) .NET
5 1 (3.23%) HTML
5 1 (3.23%) HTML5
5 1 (3.23%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.68%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.23%) Bitcoin
4 1 (3.23%) Derivative
4 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Android
2 3 (9.68%) Windows
3 2 (6.45%) Apple iOS
3 2 (6.45%) Mac OS
3 2 (6.45%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 21 (67.74%) Agile
2 21 (67.74%) QA Automation
3 14 (45.16%) BDD
4 11 (35.48%) API Testing
4 11 (35.48%) Test Strategy
5 10 (32.26%) CI/CD
5 10 (32.26%) Software Testing
6 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (25.81%) SDLC
7 8 (25.81%) TDD
8 7 (22.58%) Scrum
8 7 (22.58%) Test Scripting
9 6 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
10 5 (16.13%) User Experience
11 4 (12.90%) E-Commerce
11 4 (12.90%) Integration Testing
11 4 (12.90%) Manual Testing
11 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) Java
2 12 (38.71%) Python
3 4 (12.90%) SQL
4 3 (9.68%) C#
5 2 (6.45%) C++
6 1 (3.23%) C
6 1 (3.23%) Go
6 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.68%) Terraform
3 1 (3.23%) Consul
3 1 (3.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Oracle
2 1 (3.23%) Google
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) Splunk