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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 37 37
Rank change year-on-year -70 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 2,163 6,224 10,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.54% 6.74% 8.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 7.04% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,485 2,698 4,894
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,750
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 £73,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £101,185 £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 73,201 88,357 126,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.80% 95.62% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 53,948 52,208 73,866
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,291 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,783 £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 £101,185 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +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 3 May 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 3 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 -68 672 £72,500 -3.33% 221
South East -54 503 £55,000 -7.56% 108
North of England -82 359 £55,000 -4.35% 115
Midlands -82 248 £50,000 -9.09% 78
South West -48 247 £55,000 +4.76% 69
North West -66 216 £56,250 -2.17% 74
West Midlands -61 186 £50,000 -11.47% 48
Yorkshire -74 108 £55,000 - 38
East of England -91 107 £51,250 -21.15% 75
East Midlands -96 61 £47,500 -13.64% 30
North East -36 35 £60,000 +4.35% 3
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 72 (3.33%) Confluence
2 35 (1.62%) Apache
3 29 (1.34%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.06%) IIS
5 15 (0.69%) CMS
6 13 (0.60%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.37%) Umbraco
10 7 (0.32%) nginx
10 7 (0.32%) SAS
11 6 (0.28%) Apache Spark
11 6 (0.28%) WordPress
12 5 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.18%) TWiki
14 3 (0.14%) JBoss
15 2 (0.092%) Apache Solr
15 2 (0.092%) Moodle
15 2 (0.092%) Mule
16 1 (0.046%) Drupal
Applications
1 30 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.18%) Doxygen
6 4 (0.18%) Simulink
7 2 (0.092%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.092%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.046%) Mathematica
8 1 (0.046%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.046%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 44 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.42%) Magento
3 5 (0.23%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.092%) CiviCRM
4 2 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.092%) Endur
4 2 (0.092%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.092%) SystmOne
4 2 (0.092%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.046%) Findur
5 1 (0.046%) Postilion
5 1 (0.046%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 595 (27.51%) Azure
2 552 (25.52%) AWS
3 220 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
4 171 (7.91%) SaaS
5 124 (5.73%) GitHub
6 118 (5.46%) GCP
7 106 (4.90%) Serverless
8 104 (4.81%) Amazon S3
9 103 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
10 71 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
11 64 (2.96%) Power Platform
12 60 (2.77%) IBM Cloud
13 57 (2.64%) Amazon ECR
13 57 (2.64%) OCI
13 57 (2.64%) Route 53
14 54 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
15 48 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
16 46 (2.13%) PaaS
17 44 (2.03%) Power Automate
18 35 (1.62%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (2.73%) 5G
2 45 (2.08%) Wireless
3 39 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
4 38 (1.76%) Internet
5 35 (1.62%) TCP/IP
6 34 (1.57%) SD-WAN
6 34 (1.57%) WAN
7 32 (1.48%) DNS
8 30 (1.39%) HTTP
9 28 (1.29%) Bluetooth
10 25 (1.16%) Firewall
11 22 (1.02%) GSM
11 22 (1.02%) ISDN
11 22 (1.02%) LTE
11 22 (1.02%) PSTN
11 22 (1.02%) UMTS
12 19 (0.88%) MQTT
13 17 (0.79%) Network Security
14 14 (0.65%) RS-485
15 13 (0.60%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (8.74%) SQL Server
2 129 (5.96%) NoSQL
3 110 (5.09%) MySQL
4 105 (4.85%) Relational Database
5 92 (4.25%) PostgreSQL
6 87 (4.02%) MongoDB
7 77 (3.56%) Amazon RDS
8 44 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
9 42 (1.94%) DynamoDB
10 40 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (1.06%) Power BI
12 20 (0.92%) Data Lake
13 18 (0.83%) Big Data
14 15 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (0.69%) RDBMS
15 14 (0.65%) Redis
16 13 (0.60%) DB2
17 10 (0.46%) MariaDB
17 10 (0.46%) Metadata
18 8 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 329 (15.21%) Selenium
2 319 (14.75%) Git
3 224 (10.36%) JIRA
4 206 (9.52%) Jenkins
5 139 (6.43%) Cucumber
6 99 (4.58%) Postman
7 91 (4.21%) JMeter
8 84 (3.88%) Cypress.io
9 72 (3.33%) JUnit
10 65 (3.01%) Visual Studio
11 64 (2.96%) Appium
12 63 (2.91%) GitLab
13 62 (2.87%) WebDriver
14 60 (2.77%) TeamCity
15 50 (2.31%) SpecFlow
16 47 (2.17%) REST Assured
17 46 (2.13%) LabVIEW
18 45 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
19 39 (1.80%) Bitbucket
19 39 (1.80%) SoapUI
General
1 568 (26.26%) Social Skills
2 394 (18.22%) Finance
3 229 (10.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 222 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 199 (9.20%) Public Sector
6 133 (6.15%) Law
7 98 (4.53%) Retail
8 95 (4.39%) Banking
9 78 (3.61%) Electronics
10 77 (3.56%) Marketing
11 61 (2.82%) Aerospace
12 58 (2.68%) Automotive
13 57 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
13 57 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
14 54 (2.50%) Telecoms
15 43 (1.99%) Manufacturing
16 38 (1.76%) Legal
17 32 (1.48%) Financial Institution
18 26 (1.20%) Front Office
19 24 (1.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 536 (24.78%) Developer
2 398 (18.40%) Senior
3 280 (12.94%) Software Engineer
4 264 (12.21%) Lead
5 157 (7.26%) Tester
6 141 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 141 (6.52%) Test Engineer
7 114 (5.27%) Analyst
8 113 (5.22%) Senior Developer
9 102 (4.72%) Software Developer
10 96 (4.44%) QA Engineer
11 93 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
12 81 (3.74%) Automation Tester
13 80 (3.70%) Java Engineer
14 79 (3.65%) Full Stack Developer
15 71 (3.28%) Test Analyst
16 64 (2.96%) Senior DevOps
16 64 (2.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 62 (2.87%) .NET Developer
18 56 (2.59%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (17.15%) .NET
2 203 (9.39%) React
3 186 (8.60%) REST
4 159 (7.35%) HTML
5 155 (7.17%) RESTful
6 148 (6.84%) CSS
7 125 (5.78%) Node.js
8 124 (5.73%) AngularJS
9 112 (5.18%) Web Services
10 111 (5.13%) JSON
11 94 (4.35%) Spring
12 90 (4.16%) .NET Core
13 86 (3.98%) ASP.NET
14 76 (3.51%) XML
15 70 (3.24%) .NET Framework
16 68 (3.14%) Spring Boot
17 61 (2.82%) Playwright
18 48 (2.22%) jQuery
19 47 (2.17%) Vue
20 40 (1.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 105 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
2 102 (4.72%) Product Ownership
3 101 (4.67%) Mobile App
4 71 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 71 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 61 (2.82%) e-Learning
6 59 (2.73%) Blockchain
7 49 (2.27%) Cloud Native
8 46 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
9 43 (1.99%) Satnav
10 41 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
11 39 (1.80%) Data Structures
12 32 (1.48%) Algorithms
13 31 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
14 30 (1.39%) IoT
15 29 (1.34%) Onboarding
16 28 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
17 25 (1.16%) Blog
17 25 (1.16%) Client/Server
17 25 (1.16%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 251 (11.60%) Linux
2 167 (7.72%) Windows
3 55 (2.54%) Apple iOS
4 54 (2.50%) Android
5 46 (2.13%) Unix
6 26 (1.20%) Windows Server
7 22 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 19 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
9 12 (0.55%) Mac OS
10 11 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
11 9 (0.42%) Debian
11 9 (0.42%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.18%) VMS
13 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.14%) CentOS
15 2 (0.092%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.092%) Windows 10
16 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,140 (52.70%) Agile
2 731 (33.80%) DevOps
3 533 (24.64%) CI/CD
4 508 (23.49%) Software Engineering
5 493 (22.79%) Problem-Solving
6 436 (20.16%) Software Testing
7 422 (19.51%) Mentoring
8 335 (15.49%) Scrum
9 309 (14.29%) Coaching
10 293 (13.55%) Continuous Integration
11 275 (12.71%) Microservices
12 273 (12.62%) TDD
13 243 (11.23%) Computer Science
14 226 (10.45%) Containerisation
15 223 (10.31%) Test Strategy
16 222 (10.26%) Test Scripting
17 196 (9.06%) SDLC
18 184 (8.51%) Full Stack Development
19 182 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
20 177 (8.18%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 514 (23.76%) Java
2 488 (22.56%) C#
3 479 (22.15%) SQL
4 453 (20.94%) Python
5 419 (19.37%) JavaScript
6 180 (8.32%) TypeScript
7 145 (6.70%) C
8 132 (6.10%) C++
9 95 (4.39%) PowerShell
10 78 (3.61%) PHP
11 61 (2.82%) Bash
12 54 (2.50%) Kotlin
13 50 (2.31%) Go
14 40 (1.85%) Perl
15 37 (1.71%) MATLAB
16 35 (1.62%) Ruby
17 34 (1.57%) T-SQL
18 23 (1.06%) Rust
19 22 (1.02%) Bicep
20 20 (0.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 424 (19.60%) Degree
2 255 (11.79%) Security Cleared
3 162 (7.49%) SC Cleared
4 150 (6.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 83 (3.84%) ISTQB
6 59 (2.73%) DV Cleared
7 39 (1.80%) ISEB
8 34 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.20%) DBS Check
10 21 (0.97%) AWS Certification
11 20 (0.92%) Azure Certification
12 14 (0.65%) HND
12 14 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 12 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
16 4 (0.18%) Chartered Engineer
16 4 (0.18%) CIPD
16 4 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 518 (23.95%) QA
2 43 (1.99%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.62%) GDPR
4 23 (1.06%) Software Quality Assurance
5 22 (1.02%) PMO
6 21 (0.97%) Data Quality
7 13 (0.60%) ISO 9001
7 13 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.60%) NCSC
8 10 (0.46%) HIPAA
8 10 (0.46%) JTAG
9 8 (0.37%) PSD2
9 8 (0.37%) SLA
10 7 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.18%) MISRA
12 3 (0.14%) MISRA C
13 2 (0.092%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.092%) ITGC
13 2 (0.092%) NIST
13 2 (0.092%) WCAG
System Software
1 234 (10.82%) Docker
2 41 (1.90%) Firmware
3 27 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 26 (1.20%) Embedded Firmware
5 19 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
6 17 (0.79%) Active Directory
7 10 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.28%) VirtualBox
9 4 (0.18%) VMware Server
10 3 (0.14%) vSphere
11 2 (0.092%) Varnish
12 1 (0.046%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 261 (12.07%) Kubernetes
2 239 (11.05%) Terraform
3 124 (5.73%) Ansible
4 57 (2.64%) Prometheus
5 43 (1.99%) Puppet
6 42 (1.94%) Progress Chef
7 29 (1.34%) Grafana
8 16 (0.74%) Nagios
9 14 (0.65%) Kibana
10 11 (0.51%) Packer
10 11 (0.51%) Salt
11 10 (0.46%) Graphite
11 10 (0.46%) HAProxy
11 10 (0.46%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.32%) MIIS
13 6 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.23%) Argo
14 5 (0.23%) Control-M
15 4 (0.18%) Istio
15 4 (0.18%) WMI
Vendors
1 256 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 69 (3.19%) IBM
3 68 (3.14%) Google
4 64 (2.96%) Red Hat
5 60 (2.77%) Dynatrace
6 36 (1.66%) Oracle
7 32 (1.48%) Xamarin
8 25 (1.16%) Databricks
9 24 (1.11%) SAP
9 24 (1.11%) YouTube
10 22 (1.02%) UiPath
11 20 (0.92%) VMware
12 19 (0.88%) Atlassian
13 17 (0.79%) Splunk
14 16 (0.74%) Automation Anywhere
15 13 (0.60%) ServiceNow
16 12 (0.55%) Salesforce
16 12 (0.55%) Sybase
17 11 (0.51%) Blue Prism
18 8 (0.37%) Xero