Test Automation Jobs in Merton

Automated Testing
South London > Merton

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merton 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 5 37 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merton 3.91% 27.01% 19.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 29.60% 20.29%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median annual salary £57,500 £63,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.80% +15.91% -12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merton

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 Merton with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 115 125 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merton 89.84% 91.24% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 40 36 61
10th Percentile £31,100 £36,875 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,125 £76,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,250 £88,125 £81,250
South London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -14.53%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Merton

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Merton

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Merton

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Merton

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

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Merton

Test Automation
Job Locations in Merton

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Merton 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
New Malden - 2 £70,000 - 1
Test Automation
South London

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Mocha
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Node.js
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (20.00%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (20.00%) Next.js
3 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Coaching
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Line Management
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) People Management
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Service Design
3 2 (40.00%) SOA
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 2 (40.00%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Def Stans
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Progress