QA Automation Jobs in England

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 775 649 775
Rank change year-on-year -126 +126 -67
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 58 286 398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.068% 0.31% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.079% 0.32% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 55 205 180
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £45,625 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £70,500
90th Percentile £70,500 £71,500 £78,875
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

QA 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,151 88,568 126,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.83% 95.63% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,953 52,310 73,829
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,958 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in England

QA Automation
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for QA Automation in England

QA Automation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation in England

QA Automation
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 -15 25 £60,000 +14.29% 10
South East +7 15 £50,000 -13.04% 2
North of England +31 7 £55,000 +22.22% 4
South West -20 7 £60,000 -7.69% 1
North West +2 6 £52,500 +16.67% 2
East of England -21 1 £38,000 - 1
North East - 1 £55,000 -
QA Automation
UK

QA Automation
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 1 (1.72%) Confluence
1 1 (1.72%) MQSeries
1 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (39.66%) Azure
2 15 (25.86%) AWS
3 12 (20.69%) SaaS
4 6 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (8.62%) Serverless
6 4 (6.90%) Azure Functions
6 4 (6.90%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (6.90%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.45%) BrowserStack
7 2 (3.45%) GCP
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (1.72%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.72%) GitHub
8 1 (1.72%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
1 4 (6.90%) Power BI
2 3 (5.17%) DynamoDB
2 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (5.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.72%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.72%) DocumentDB
4 1 (1.72%) MySQL
4 1 (1.72%) Redis
4 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (43.10%) Selenium
2 24 (41.38%) Cypress.io
3 19 (32.76%) Cucumber
4 17 (29.31%) Postman
5 11 (18.97%) Jenkins
6 9 (15.52%) Git
7 8 (13.79%) REST Assured
8 7 (12.07%) Appium
8 7 (12.07%) JIRA
8 7 (12.07%) JMeter
9 5 (8.62%) JUnit
10 3 (5.17%) GitLab
10 3 (5.17%) Mockito
10 3 (5.17%) SoapUI
10 3 (5.17%) SpecFlow
10 3 (5.17%) WebDriver
11 2 (3.45%) CircleCI
11 2 (3.45%) NUnit
11 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio
11 2 (3.45%) XCUITest
General
1 20 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.62%) Finance
3 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.17%) Health Technology
4 2 (3.45%) Front Office
5 1 (1.72%) Banking
5 1 (1.72%) Marketing
5 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.72%) Publishing
5 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (62.07%) QA Engineer
2 21 (36.21%) QA Automation Engineer
3 16 (27.59%) Automation Engineer
4 12 (20.69%) Lead
5 10 (17.24%) QA Leader
6 6 (10.34%) Developer
6 6 (10.34%) Java Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Analyst
8 4 (6.90%) Cloud Automation Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Python Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Tester
9 3 (5.17%) Automation Tester
9 3 (5.17%) QA Tester
10 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Developer
10 2 (3.45%) QA Analyst
10 2 (3.45%) Senior QA Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Test Analyst
10 2 (3.45%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (24.14%) Playwright
2 11 (18.97%) .NET
3 6 (10.34%) REST
4 4 (6.90%) CSS
4 4 (6.90%) React
4 4 (6.90%) Spring
4 4 (6.90%) Swagger
4 4 (6.90%) Web Services
5 3 (5.17%) ASP.NET
5 3 (5.17%) HTML
5 3 (5.17%) Spring Boot
5 3 (5.17%) WireMock
6 2 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (3.45%) Blazor
6 2 (3.45%) Razor View Engine
7 1 (1.72%) OpenCV
7 1 (1.72%) Puppeteer
7 1 (1.72%) PySpark
7 1 (1.72%) pytest
7 1 (1.72%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.90%) Mobile App
1 4 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.17%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.45%) Hackathon
4 1 (1.72%) Derivative
4 1 (1.72%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.72%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.17%) Android
1 3 (5.17%) Linux
2 2 (3.45%) Windows
3 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (89.66%) Test Automation
2 33 (56.90%) Agile
3 26 (44.83%) CI/CD
4 25 (43.10%) API Testing
5 24 (41.38%) BDD
6 17 (29.31%) DevOps
7 12 (20.69%) Scrum
8 11 (18.97%) Coaching
8 11 (18.97%) TDD
8 11 (18.97%) Test Strategy
9 10 (17.24%) Software Engineering
9 10 (17.24%) Software Testing
9 10 (17.24%) Test Scripting
10 9 (15.52%) Design Patterns
11 8 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (13.79%) E-Commerce
11 8 (13.79%) SDLC
12 7 (12.07%) Manual Testing
12 7 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (12.07%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 26 (44.83%) Java
2 18 (31.03%) C#
3 17 (29.31%) JavaScript
4 14 (24.14%) SQL
5 13 (22.41%) Python
6 5 (8.62%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.72%) C
7 1 (1.72%) C++
7 1 (1.72%) Go
7 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (5.17%) Degree
1 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.72%) ISEB
2 1 (1.72%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (15.52%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.17%) Terraform
3 1 (1.72%) Consul
3 1 (1.72%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
2 1 (1.72%) Databricks
2 1 (1.72%) Google
2 1 (1.72%) IBM
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle
2 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.72%) Solace
2 1 (1.72%) Splunk
2 1 (1.72%) TIBCO
2 1 (1.72%) VMware