Test Automation Jobs in London

Automated Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 36 37
Rank change year-on-year -63 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 674 2,351 6,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.85% 6.85% 9.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 7.19% 9.72%
Number of salaries quoted 494 1,248 2,268
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,224 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,000 £69,078
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +7.13% -1.32%
75th Percentile £89,688 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,533 32,716 65,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.15% 95.34% 96.94%
Number of salaries quoted 15,983 23,548 34,024
10th Percentile £37,719 £43,411 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,858 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,555 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the London region over the 6 months to 10 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
Central London -14 117 £80,000 +3.23% 19
South London -24 45 £57,500 -9.80% 2
West London -58 9 £65,000 +30.00% 12
East London +11 3 £80,000 +77.78% 10
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 29 (4.30%) Confluence
2 16 (2.37%) Apache
3 15 (2.23%) IIS
4 9 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.04%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.74%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.74%) nginx
7 4 (0.59%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.59%) WordPress
8 3 (0.45%) CMS
9 2 (0.30%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.30%) Moodle
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.15%) Drupal
10 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.15%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.30%) CiviCRM
3 2 (0.30%) Endur
3 2 (0.30%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.15%) Findur
4 1 (0.15%) LabWindows
4 1 (0.15%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 248 (36.80%) AWS
2 219 (32.49%) Azure
3 96 (14.24%) Azure DevOps
4 75 (11.13%) GCP
5 52 (7.72%) Serverless
6 49 (7.27%) Amazon S3
7 48 (7.12%) Amazon EKS
8 46 (6.82%) SaaS
9 34 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
9 34 (5.04%) GitHub
10 30 (4.45%) Power Platform
11 22 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
12 21 (3.12%) Amazon ECS
12 21 (3.12%) PaaS
13 18 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (2.37%) OpenShift
15 14 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (1.93%) Amazon SQS
16 13 (1.93%) Azure AKS
17 12 (1.78%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.82%) DNS
2 15 (2.23%) Internet
3 12 (1.78%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.63%) Firewall
5 10 (1.48%) SNMP
5 10 (1.48%) tcpdump
6 6 (0.89%) HTTP
7 4 (0.59%) Wireless
8 2 (0.30%) SMTP
8 2 (0.30%) SSH
9 1 (0.15%) Broadband
9 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.15%) MQTT
9 1 (0.15%) Network Security
9 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.15%) SMS
9 1 (0.15%) VoIP
9 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (12.17%) SQL Server
2 46 (6.82%) NoSQL
3 44 (6.53%) MongoDB
4 39 (5.79%) MySQL
4 39 (5.79%) Relational Database
5 33 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
7 27 (4.01%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (2.67%) DynamoDB
10 14 (2.08%) Big Data
11 11 (1.63%) RDBMS
12 10 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.48%) DB2
12 10 (1.48%) Metadata
13 9 (1.34%) Power BI
14 8 (1.19%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.74%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.74%) SAP BW
15 5 (0.74%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 117 (17.36%) Git
2 85 (12.61%) Selenium
3 70 (10.39%) JIRA
4 69 (10.24%) Jenkins
5 45 (6.68%) Cucumber
6 42 (6.23%) JUnit
7 29 (4.30%) Cypress.io
8 28 (4.15%) JMeter
9 27 (4.01%) GitLab
10 26 (3.86%) WebDriver
11 24 (3.56%) REST Assured
12 23 (3.41%) TeamCity
13 21 (3.12%) TestNG
14 20 (2.97%) Postman
15 18 (2.67%) Visual Studio
16 16 (2.37%) SpecFlow
17 14 (2.08%) SoapUI
18 11 (1.63%) Appium
18 11 (1.63%) Bitbucket
19 10 (1.48%) SonarQube
General
1 185 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 168 (24.93%) Finance
3 97 (14.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 64 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (9.50%) Law
5 62 (9.20%) Public Sector
6 46 (6.82%) Banking
7 38 (5.64%) Marketing
8 27 (4.01%) Front Office
9 25 (3.71%) Retail
10 18 (2.67%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.93%) Legal
12 12 (1.78%) Financial Institution
12 12 (1.78%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.04%) Health Technology
14 7 (1.04%) Police
15 6 (0.89%) Back Office
16 5 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 161 (23.89%) Developer
2 148 (21.96%) Senior
3 105 (15.58%) Lead
4 100 (14.84%) Software Engineer
5 53 (7.86%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (6.23%) Senior Developer
7 41 (6.08%) Tester
8 34 (5.04%) Analyst
8 34 (5.04%) Java Engineer
9 32 (4.75%) Cloud Engineer
10 30 (4.45%) Senior Software Engineer
11 29 (4.30%) .NET Developer
12 28 (4.15%) Full Stack Developer
13 27 (4.01%) QA Engineer
14 22 (3.26%) Automation Tester
14 22 (3.26%) Data Engineer
14 22 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
14 22 (3.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.12%) Automation Engineer
15 21 (3.12%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (20.77%) .NET
2 103 (15.28%) REST
3 96 (14.24%) React
4 55 (8.16%) Web Services
5 52 (7.72%) AngularJS
6 51 (7.57%) JSON
7 50 (7.42%) Spring
8 41 (6.08%) HTML
8 41 (6.08%) Node.js
8 41 (6.08%) RESTful
9 39 (5.79%) CSS
10 38 (5.64%) .NET Framework
11 36 (5.34%) ASP.NET
11 36 (5.34%) XML
12 30 (4.45%) Spring Boot
13 28 (4.15%) Playwright
14 27 (4.01%) .NET Core
15 21 (3.12%) Redux
16 20 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
17 19 (2.82%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 31 (4.60%) Mobile App
2 28 (4.15%) Cloud Native
3 24 (3.56%) Blog
3 24 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (3.56%) Greenfield Project
4 22 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 21 (3.12%) Data Structures
6 16 (2.37%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
8 14 (2.08%) Hedge funds
9 13 (1.93%) Legacy Applications
9 13 (1.93%) Product Ownership
10 11 (1.63%) Blockchain
10 11 (1.63%) Clustering
10 11 (1.63%) e-Learning
10 11 (1.63%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.19%) Client/Server
11 8 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 57 (8.46%) Linux
2 27 (4.01%) Windows
3 23 (3.41%) Android
4 20 (2.97%) Apple iOS
5 14 (2.08%) Unix
6 10 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (48.96%) Agile
2 250 (37.09%) DevOps
3 213 (31.60%) CI/CD
4 173 (25.67%) Software Engineering
5 139 (20.62%) Microservices
6 122 (18.10%) Software Testing
7 116 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
7 116 (17.21%) Scrum
8 115 (17.06%) Mentoring
9 100 (14.84%) TDD
10 92 (13.65%) Continuous Integration
11 84 (12.46%) Test Strategy
12 80 (11.87%) Unit Testing
13 76 (11.28%) Coaching
14 75 (11.13%) Containerisation
15 71 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
15 71 (10.53%) SDET
16 66 (9.79%) Computer Science
17 63 (9.35%) Code Quality
18 61 (9.05%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 214 (31.75%) Java
2 187 (27.74%) Python
3 155 (23.00%) SQL
4 150 (22.26%) C#
5 136 (20.18%) JavaScript
6 91 (13.50%) TypeScript
7 45 (6.68%) PowerShell
8 28 (4.15%) Perl
9 23 (3.41%) Go
10 22 (3.26%) Bash
11 18 (2.67%) C++
11 18 (2.67%) Kotlin
12 16 (2.37%) PHP
13 14 (2.08%) Scala
14 11 (1.63%) Bicep
14 11 (1.63%) Rust
15 10 (1.48%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.48%) Swift
15 10 (1.48%) T-SQL
16 8 (1.19%) C
Qualifications
1 82 (12.17%) Degree
2 49 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 49 (7.27%) Security Cleared
3 32 (4.75%) SC Cleared
4 16 (2.37%) AWS Certification
5 12 (1.78%) ISTQB
6 10 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.48%) ISEB
7 7 (1.04%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.04%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.59%) ISEB Practitioner
10 3 (0.45%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.45%) Sun Certification
11 2 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 2 (0.30%) MCAD
12 1 (0.15%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (19.88%) QA
2 18 (2.67%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.78%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.34%) ISO 9001
5 6 (0.89%) SLA
6 5 (0.74%) GDPR
7 4 (0.59%) NCSC
8 3 (0.45%) ITGC
8 3 (0.45%) JTAG
8 3 (0.45%) SOC 1
8 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.30%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (14.84%) Docker
2 10 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.74%) Firmware
4 5 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.59%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.45%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.30%) Varnish
7 2 (0.30%) vSphere
8 1 (0.15%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 123 (18.25%) Kubernetes
2 119 (17.66%) Terraform
3 50 (7.42%) Ansible
4 30 (4.45%) Puppet
5 21 (3.12%) Grafana
6 18 (2.67%) Progress Chef
7 14 (2.08%) Nagios
8 11 (1.63%) Prometheus
9 10 (1.48%) Graphite
9 10 (1.48%) HAProxy
9 10 (1.48%) Salt
9 10 (1.48%) vCenter Server
10 8 (1.19%) Packer
11 5 (0.74%) Istio
11 5 (0.74%) Kibana
12 3 (0.45%) Consul
12 3 (0.45%) Control-M
12 3 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.45%) logstash
12 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 67 (9.94%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.01%) Google
3 20 (2.97%) Oracle
4 14 (2.08%) Dynatrace
4 14 (2.08%) IBM
5 13 (1.93%) Databricks
6 12 (1.78%) Red Hat
6 12 (1.78%) YouTube
7 11 (1.63%) Sybase
7 11 (1.63%) UiPath
8 8 (1.19%) Xero
9 7 (1.04%) SAP
9 7 (1.04%) Splunk
10 6 (0.89%) Amplitude
10 6 (0.89%) Automation Anywhere
10 6 (0.89%) Blue Prism
10 6 (0.89%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.74%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.74%) New Relic
11 5 (0.74%) VMware