Test Automation Jobs in England

Automated Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 38 37
Rank change year-on-year -69 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 2,141 6,333 10,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.52% 6.79% 8.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 7.10% 8.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,470 2,753 4,854
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £100,948 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,814 89,178 125,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.85% 95.66% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 53,731 52,642 73,765
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,327
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £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 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in England

Test Automation
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in England

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in England

Test 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 Test Automation within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -71 660 £72,500 -3.33% 232
South East -55 498 £55,000 -7.56% 128
North of England -75 357 £56,250 -0.44% 112
Midlands -86 250 £50,000 -9.09% 77
South West -48 244 £55,000 +1.85% 69
North West -62 214 £55,000 -4.35% 73
West Midlands -59 186 £50,000 -11.47% 44
Yorkshire -70 108 £55,000 +4.76% 34
East of England -97 105 £51,250 -25.45% 82
East Midlands -93 63 £47,500 -13.64% 33
North East -33 35 £60,000 +4.35% 5
Test Automation
UK

Test 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 70 (3.27%) Confluence
2 35 (1.63%) Apache
3 29 (1.35%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.03%) IIS
5 15 (0.70%) CMS
6 13 (0.61%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.37%) nginx
9 8 (0.37%) Umbraco
10 7 (0.33%) SAS
11 6 (0.28%) Apache Spark
11 6 (0.28%) WordPress
12 5 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.19%) TWiki
14 3 (0.14%) JBoss
15 2 (0.093%) Apache Solr
15 2 (0.093%) Moodle
15 2 (0.093%) Mule
16 1 (0.047%) Drupal
Applications
1 32 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.75%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.19%) Doxygen
6 4 (0.19%) Simulink
7 2 (0.093%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.093%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.047%) Mathematica
8 1 (0.047%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 44 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.42%) Magento
3 5 (0.23%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.093%) CiviCRM
4 2 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.093%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.093%) SystmOne
4 2 (0.093%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.047%) Endur
5 1 (0.047%) Postilion
5 1 (0.047%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 593 (27.70%) Azure
2 543 (25.36%) AWS
3 218 (10.18%) Azure DevOps
4 171 (7.99%) SaaS
5 120 (5.60%) GitHub
6 119 (5.56%) GCP
7 103 (4.81%) Serverless
8 102 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
9 101 (4.72%) Amazon S3
10 71 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
11 64 (2.99%) Power Platform
12 60 (2.80%) IBM Cloud
13 56 (2.62%) Amazon ECR
13 56 (2.62%) OCI
13 56 (2.62%) Route 53
14 52 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
15 45 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
15 45 (2.10%) PaaS
16 44 (2.06%) Power Automate
17 35 (1.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.57%) 5G
2 43 (2.01%) Wireless
3 39 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
4 36 (1.68%) Internet
5 33 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.45%) DNS
6 31 (1.45%) SD-WAN
6 31 (1.45%) WAN
7 29 (1.35%) HTTP
8 27 (1.26%) Bluetooth
9 25 (1.17%) Firewall
10 22 (1.03%) GSM
10 22 (1.03%) ISDN
10 22 (1.03%) LTE
10 22 (1.03%) PSTN
10 22 (1.03%) UMTS
11 18 (0.84%) MQTT
12 16 (0.75%) Network Security
13 13 (0.61%) 3G
13 13 (0.61%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (8.78%) SQL Server
2 119 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 111 (5.18%) MySQL
4 101 (4.72%) Relational Database
5 92 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
6 86 (4.02%) MongoDB
7 76 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
8 44 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
9 42 (1.96%) DynamoDB
10 40 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (1.07%) Power BI
12 20 (0.93%) Data Lake
13 19 (0.89%) Big Data
14 15 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
15 14 (0.65%) RDBMS
15 14 (0.65%) Redis
16 12 (0.56%) DB2
17 10 (0.47%) MariaDB
17 10 (0.47%) Metadata
18 8 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 330 (15.41%) Selenium
2 312 (14.57%) Git
3 225 (10.51%) JIRA
4 206 (9.62%) Jenkins
5 141 (6.59%) Cucumber
6 99 (4.62%) Postman
7 92 (4.30%) JMeter
8 85 (3.97%) Cypress.io
9 72 (3.36%) JUnit
10 63 (2.94%) Appium
10 63 (2.94%) GitLab
10 63 (2.94%) WebDriver
11 62 (2.90%) Visual Studio
12 60 (2.80%) TeamCity
13 52 (2.43%) SpecFlow
14 47 (2.20%) LabVIEW
15 46 (2.15%) REST Assured
15 46 (2.15%) Team Foundation Server
16 40 (1.87%) SoapUI
17 38 (1.77%) Bitbucket
General
1 562 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 393 (18.36%) Finance
3 224 (10.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 219 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
5 194 (9.06%) Public Sector
6 130 (6.07%) Law
7 98 (4.58%) Retail
8 97 (4.53%) Banking
9 76 (3.55%) Marketing
10 75 (3.50%) Electronics
11 61 (2.85%) Aerospace
12 58 (2.71%) Automotive
13 55 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
14 54 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
15 53 (2.48%) Telecoms
16 42 (1.96%) Manufacturing
17 38 (1.77%) Legal
18 33 (1.54%) Financial Institution
19 23 (1.07%) Front Office
19 23 (1.07%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 526 (24.57%) Developer
2 387 (18.08%) Senior
3 272 (12.70%) Software Engineer
4 265 (12.38%) Lead
5 160 (7.47%) Tester
6 140 (6.54%) DevOps Engineer
7 139 (6.49%) Test Engineer
8 114 (5.32%) Analyst
9 109 (5.09%) Senior Developer
10 100 (4.67%) Software Developer
11 99 (4.62%) QA Engineer
12 89 (4.16%) Senior Software Engineer
13 83 (3.88%) Automation Tester
14 78 (3.64%) Full Stack Developer
15 77 (3.60%) Java Engineer
16 72 (3.36%) Test Analyst
17 64 (2.99%) Senior DevOps
18 63 (2.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 59 (2.76%) .NET Developer
20 57 (2.66%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 361 (16.86%) .NET
2 199 (9.29%) React
3 186 (8.69%) REST
4 158 (7.38%) HTML
5 154 (7.19%) RESTful
6 147 (6.87%) CSS
7 123 (5.74%) Node.js
8 122 (5.70%) AngularJS
9 112 (5.23%) Web Services
10 111 (5.18%) JSON
11 91 (4.25%) Spring
12 86 (4.02%) .NET Core
13 84 (3.92%) ASP.NET
14 76 (3.55%) XML
15 67 (3.13%) .NET Framework
15 67 (3.13%) Spring Boot
16 60 (2.80%) Playwright
17 50 (2.34%) jQuery
18 47 (2.20%) Vue
19 41 (1.91%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 105 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
2 102 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 101 (4.72%) Mobile App
4 70 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 69 (3.22%) Management Information System
6 60 (2.80%) e-Learning
7 58 (2.71%) Blockchain
8 47 (2.20%) Cloud Native
9 44 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
10 43 (2.01%) Satnav
11 41 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
12 38 (1.77%) Data Structures
13 33 (1.54%) Algorithms
14 30 (1.40%) Embedded Systems
15 29 (1.35%) Onboarding
16 28 (1.31%) IoT
17 26 (1.21%) Client/Server
17 26 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
18 23 (1.07%) Blog
18 23 (1.07%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 246 (11.49%) Linux
2 165 (7.71%) Windows
3 55 (2.57%) Apple iOS
4 53 (2.48%) Android
5 45 (2.10%) Unix
6 26 (1.21%) Windows Server
7 22 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 18 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
9 12 (0.56%) Mac OS
10 11 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
11 9 (0.42%) Debian
11 9 (0.42%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.19%) VMS
13 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.14%) CentOS
15 2 (0.093%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.093%) Windows 10
16 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,124 (52.50%) Agile
2 727 (33.96%) DevOps
3 529 (24.71%) CI/CD
4 492 (22.98%) Software Engineering
5 489 (22.84%) Problem-Solving
6 441 (20.60%) Software Testing
7 418 (19.52%) Mentoring
8 324 (15.13%) Scrum
9 307 (14.34%) Coaching
10 292 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
11 271 (12.66%) Microservices
12 270 (12.61%) TDD
13 236 (11.02%) Computer Science
14 227 (10.60%) Test Scripting
15 224 (10.46%) Test Strategy
16 218 (10.18%) Containerisation
17 198 (9.25%) SDLC
18 182 (8.50%) Full Stack Development
19 180 (8.41%) BDD
19 180 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 502 (23.45%) Java
2 480 (22.42%) C#
3 472 (22.05%) SQL
4 442 (20.64%) Python
5 421 (19.66%) JavaScript
6 177 (8.27%) TypeScript
7 140 (6.54%) C
8 124 (5.79%) C++
9 95 (4.44%) PowerShell
10 81 (3.78%) PHP
11 62 (2.90%) Bash
12 53 (2.48%) Go
13 50 (2.34%) Kotlin
14 39 (1.82%) Perl
15 37 (1.73%) MATLAB
16 35 (1.63%) Ruby
17 33 (1.54%) T-SQL
18 23 (1.07%) Bicep
19 21 (0.98%) Rust
20 20 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 416 (19.43%) Degree
2 254 (11.86%) Security Cleared
3 165 (7.71%) SC Cleared
4 147 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 85 (3.97%) ISTQB
6 56 (2.62%) DV Cleared
7 40 (1.87%) ISEB
8 34 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (1.49%) Master's Degree
10 26 (1.21%) DBS Check
11 21 (0.98%) AWS Certification
12 20 (0.93%) Azure Certification
13 15 (0.70%) HND
14 13 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
18 4 (0.19%) Chartered Engineer
18 4 (0.19%) CIPD
18 4 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 521 (24.33%) QA
2 42 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.63%) GDPR
4 23 (1.07%) Software Quality Assurance
5 21 (0.98%) PMO
6 20 (0.93%) Data Quality
7 13 (0.61%) NCSC
8 10 (0.47%) HIPAA
8 10 (0.47%) ISO 9001
8 10 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.47%) JTAG
9 9 (0.42%) SLA
10 8 (0.37%) PSD2
11 7 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.19%) MISRA
13 3 (0.14%) MISRA C
14 2 (0.093%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 2 (0.093%) NIST
14 2 (0.093%) WCAG
System Software
1 230 (10.74%) Docker
2 38 (1.77%) Firmware
3 27 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (1.07%) Embedded Firmware
5 19 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
6 17 (0.79%) Active Directory
7 10 (0.47%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.28%) VirtualBox
9 4 (0.19%) VMware Server
10 3 (0.14%) vSphere
11 2 (0.093%) OpenSIPS
11 2 (0.093%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 258 (12.05%) Kubernetes
2 235 (10.98%) Terraform
3 125 (5.84%) Ansible
4 56 (2.62%) Prometheus
5 43 (2.01%) Puppet
6 42 (1.96%) Progress Chef
7 29 (1.35%) Grafana
8 16 (0.75%) Nagios
9 15 (0.70%) Kibana
10 11 (0.51%) Packer
10 11 (0.51%) Salt
11 10 (0.47%) Graphite
11 10 (0.47%) HAProxy
11 10 (0.47%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.33%) MIIS
13 6 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.23%) Argo
14 5 (0.23%) Control-M
14 5 (0.23%) Istio
15 4 (0.19%) WMI
Vendors
1 256 (11.96%) Microsoft
2 69 (3.22%) IBM
3 67 (3.13%) Google
4 63 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 60 (2.80%) Dynatrace
6 34 (1.59%) Oracle
7 32 (1.49%) Xamarin
8 25 (1.17%) Databricks
9 24 (1.12%) YouTube
10 22 (1.03%) SAP
10 22 (1.03%) UiPath
11 21 (0.98%) VMware
12 17 (0.79%) Atlassian
12 17 (0.79%) Splunk
13 16 (0.75%) Automation Anywhere
14 15 (0.70%) ServiceNow
15 12 (0.56%) Salesforce
16 11 (0.51%) Blue Prism
16 11 (0.51%) Sybase
17 8 (0.37%) Xero