Test Automation Developer Jobs in England

Automation Test Developer
UK > England

The median Automation Test Developer salary in England is £24,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 831 922 1116
Rank change year-on-year +91 +194 -273
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Developer 6 18 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.007% 0.020% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.021% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 26
10th Percentile - - £46,625
25th Percentile - £42,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £24,000 £52,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -54.29% -38.24% +33.33%
75th Percentile £60,375 £93,125 -
90th Percentile £75,000 £98,750 -
UK median annual salary £24,000 £52,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -54.29% -30.00% +20.00%

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 80,754 84,293 127,933
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.52% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 60,385 53,462 75,679
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £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 £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Test Automation Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Developer in England

Test Automation Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Test Automation Developer in England

Test Automation Developer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Test Automation Developer in England

Test Automation Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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 +125 3 £24,000 -73.33%
South East - 3 £24,000 -
Test Automation Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Test Automation Developer 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 Test Automation Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) SDET
3 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 2 (33.33%) YouTube
3 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (33.33%) REST Assured
3 2 (33.33%) Serenity BDD
3 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) SoapUI
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (33.33%) JMeter
3 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) Selenium

Test Automation Developer 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 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) JMeter
1 2 (33.33%) REST Assured
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
1 2 (33.33%) Serenity BDD
1 2 (33.33%) SoapUI
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) TestNG
2 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
1 2 (33.33%) SOAP
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) Celery
2 1 (16.67%) Gherkin
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) WireMock
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) SDET
3 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Test Management
4 1 (16.67%) BDD
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Consul
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) YouTube