Test Automation Engineer Jobs in England

Automation Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Automation Test Engineer salary in England is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 795 741 789
Rank change year-on-year -54 +48 -181
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 36 218 331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.043% 0.23% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.25% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 27 153 271
10th Percentile £31,350 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £36,875 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £76,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%

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 79,484 88,194 124,195
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 91.69% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 59,920 55,480 76,097
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £42,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,308 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.15% - +9.09%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Engineer in England

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Test Automation Engineer in England

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation Engineer in England

Test 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 Test Automation Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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 +59 12 £52,500 -4.55% 5
South East +5 8 £37,500 -31.82% 5
North of England +34 4 £42,500 -26.09% 2
South West -42 4 £60,000 +26.32% 3
West Midlands +34 3 £40,000 -38.46%
East of England +27 3 £37,500 +2.74% 2
Midlands +7 3 £40,000 -38.46%
Yorkshire +79 2 £42,500 -46.88% 1
North West +12 2 £43,750 +2.94%
Test Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Test 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 Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 24 (66.67%) Agile
3 16 (44.44%) QA
4 15 (41.67%) BDD
5 14 (38.89%) Selenium
5 14 (38.89%) Test Scripting
5 14 (38.89%) Java
6 13 (36.11%) Cucumber
7 12 (33.33%) Python
8 11 (30.56%) Test Strategy
8 11 (30.56%) CI/CD
9 10 (27.78%) AWS
9 10 (27.78%) TDD
9 10 (27.78%) Software Testing
10 8 (22.22%) Regression Testing
10 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
10 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (19.44%) API Testing
11 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
11 7 (19.44%) DevOps
11 7 (19.44%) SDLC
11 7 (19.44%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (19.44%) Manual Testing
11 7 (19.44%) JIRA
12 6 (16.67%) Finance
12 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (16.67%) Azure
12 6 (16.67%) SaaS
13 5 (13.89%) QA Automation
13 5 (13.89%) Postman

Test 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 (27.78%) AWS
2 6 (16.67%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) SaaS
3 2 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.78%) Datadog
4 1 (2.78%) Firebase
4 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) 3G
1 1 (2.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.56%) MySQL
2 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (38.89%) Selenium
2 13 (36.11%) Cucumber
3 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
3 7 (19.44%) JIRA
4 5 (13.89%) Postman
4 5 (13.89%) SpecFlow
5 4 (11.11%) Appium
5 4 (11.11%) JBehave
5 4 (11.11%) TeamCity
6 3 (8.33%) Cypress.io
7 2 (5.56%) Git
7 2 (5.56%) JMeter
7 2 (5.56%) JUnit
7 2 (5.56%) TestRail
7 2 (5.56%) UI Automator
8 1 (2.78%) HP UFT
8 1 (2.78%) LoadRunner
8 1 (2.78%) MSTest
8 1 (2.78%) Subversion
8 1 (2.78%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (11.11%) Retail
5 3 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Automotive
6 2 (5.56%) Banking
6 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.78%) Law
7 1 (2.78%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) Gherkin
2 2 (5.56%) Playwright
2 2 (5.56%) pytest
2 2 (5.56%) REST
2 2 (5.56%) Spring
2 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.78%) Behat
3 1 (2.78%) HTML
3 1 (2.78%) HTML5
3 1 (2.78%) JSON
3 1 (2.78%) Kafka
3 1 (2.78%) Node.js
3 1 (2.78%) Puppeteer
3 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.78%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (2.78%) WireMock
3 1 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 4 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.56%) Client/Server
3 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Android
1 4 (11.11%) Linux
2 3 (8.33%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.56%) Mac OS
3 2 (5.56%) Mac OS X
3 2 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 24 (66.67%) Agile
3 15 (41.67%) BDD
4 14 (38.89%) Test Scripting
5 11 (30.56%) CI/CD
5 11 (30.56%) Test Strategy
6 10 (27.78%) Software Testing
6 10 (27.78%) TDD
7 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (22.22%) Regression Testing
8 7 (19.44%) API Testing
8 7 (19.44%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (19.44%) DevOps
8 7 (19.44%) Manual Testing
8 7 (19.44%) SDLC
9 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (13.89%) Non-Functional Testing
9 5 (13.89%) QA Automation
9 5 (13.89%) Scrum
9 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) Java
2 12 (33.33%) Python
3 5 (13.89%) C#
3 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.33%) PHP
4 3 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.56%) Go
6 1 (2.78%) C
6 1 (2.78%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) ISTQB
2 3 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) ISEB
3 1 (2.78%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (44.44%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Consul
2 1 (2.78%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) YouTube
2 1 (2.78%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (2.78%) Google
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft