Test Automation Jobs in the South East

Automated Testing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 35 29
Rank change year-on-year -54 -6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 499 1,022 1,680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.00% 6.77% 8.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 7.17% 9.02%
Number of salaries quoted 278 482 941
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +15.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,111 14,259 18,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.82% 94.49% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,939 8,272 12,089
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,265 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £86,250 £82,500
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 the South East

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the South East

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in the South East.

Salary trend for Test Automation in the South East

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the South East

Test Automation
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 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
Thames Valley -72 157 £60,000 - 39
Hampshire -34 142 £50,000 -13.04% 47
Surrey +1 125 £47,500 -17.39% 24
Berkshire -52 84 £62,500 -1.96% 20
Buckinghamshire -13 43 £47,500 -5.00% 13
East Sussex -13 30 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Oxfordshire -55 30 £59,000 +2.61% 8
Kent -8 18 £65,000 -
West Sussex -34 17 £65,000 +18.18% 5
Middlesex -16 5 £42,500 -45.16%
Sussex - 2 £56,000 -
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 15 (3.01%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.40%) Apache
3 10 (2.00%) OpenStack
4 7 (1.40%) Confluence
5 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.80%) TWiki
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.20%) JBoss
7 1 (0.20%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (2.00%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.80%) Doxygen
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.20%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 14 (2.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 154 (30.86%) Azure
2 82 (16.43%) SaaS
3 80 (16.03%) AWS
4 60 (12.02%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (4.61%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (4.21%) Serverless
7 19 (3.81%) GitHub
8 17 (3.41%) IaaS
8 17 (3.41%) Power Automate
9 15 (3.01%) PaaS
10 13 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (1.60%) GCP
12 8 (1.60%) Pulumi
13 7 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (1.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (1.40%) Azure Functions
14 6 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
15 4 (0.80%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.61%) Wi-Fi
2 22 (4.41%) 5G
2 22 (4.41%) Bluetooth
2 22 (4.41%) GSM
2 22 (4.41%) ISDN
2 22 (4.41%) LTE
2 22 (4.41%) PSTN
2 22 (4.41%) UMTS
2 22 (4.41%) Wireless
3 14 (2.81%) Network Security
4 10 (2.00%) HTTP
5 6 (1.20%) Firewall
6 4 (0.80%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.60%) Internet
8 2 (0.40%) Broadband
9 1 (0.20%) DHCP
9 1 (0.20%) DNS
9 1 (0.20%) SNMP
9 1 (0.20%) VLAN
9 1 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.02%) SQL Server
2 29 (5.81%) NoSQL
3 25 (5.01%) Relational Database
4 13 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.00%) MySQL
6 7 (1.40%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.00%) Redis
8 3 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.40%) DB2
9 2 (0.40%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.20%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.20%) Big Data
10 1 (0.20%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.20%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.20%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.20%) OLTP
10 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 127 (25.45%) Selenium
2 63 (12.63%) Jenkins
3 62 (12.42%) JIRA
4 58 (11.62%) Git
5 31 (6.21%) Cucumber
6 28 (5.61%) WebDriver
7 24 (4.81%) Ant
8 22 (4.41%) JMeter
8 22 (4.41%) LabVIEW
8 22 (4.41%) Postman
9 21 (4.21%) Visual Studio
10 20 (4.01%) NUnit
11 19 (3.81%) GitLab
12 18 (3.61%) REST Assured
13 17 (3.41%) TeamCity
14 16 (3.21%) JUnit
15 15 (3.01%) Cypress.io
16 14 (2.81%) SpecFlow
17 13 (2.61%) TestNG
17 13 (2.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 104 (20.84%) Social Skills
2 44 (8.82%) Aerospace
3 42 (8.42%) Finance
4 29 (5.81%) Organisational Skills
4 29 (5.81%) Telecoms
5 28 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (5.01%) Law
8 24 (4.81%) Retail
9 22 (4.41%) Public Sector
10 18 (3.61%) Marketing
11 11 (2.20%) Legal
12 9 (1.80%) Electronics
13 8 (1.60%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.60%) Police
14 7 (1.40%) Back Office
15 6 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.40%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 112 (22.44%) Developer
2 63 (12.63%) Tester
3 51 (10.22%) Software Engineer
4 48 (9.62%) Senior
5 44 (8.82%) Automation Tester
6 43 (8.62%) Analyst
7 35 (7.01%) Test Engineer
8 30 (6.01%) Lead
8 30 (6.01%) Test Analyst
9 27 (5.41%) QA Engineer
10 26 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
11 25 (5.01%) Software Developer
11 25 (5.01%) Software Manager
12 24 (4.81%) C++ Developer
12 24 (4.81%) Full Stack Developer
13 21 (4.21%) C++ Software Engineer
13 21 (4.21%) Engineering Manager
14 20 (4.01%) Software Engineering Manager
15 19 (3.81%) Azure Developer
16 17 (3.41%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (23.05%) .NET
2 43 (8.62%) RESTful
3 42 (8.42%) React
4 35 (7.01%) .NET Core
4 35 (7.01%) CSS
5 34 (6.81%) Web Services
6 29 (5.81%) AngularJS
7 28 (5.61%) HTML
8 26 (5.21%) REST
9 24 (4.81%) Hibernate
10 23 (4.61%) ASP.NET
10 23 (4.61%) Vue
11 20 (4.01%) JSON
12 17 (3.41%) Node.js
12 17 (3.41%) XML
13 16 (3.21%) jQuery
14 15 (3.01%) Laravel
15 14 (2.81%) OAuth
16 13 (2.61%) Swagger
16 13 (2.61%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.62%) Satnav
2 22 (4.41%) Acoustics
3 21 (4.21%) Management Information System
4 20 (4.01%) Algorithms
5 18 (3.61%) Product Ownership
6 15 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.01%) Low-Code
7 14 (2.81%) Cloud Native
8 12 (2.40%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.60%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.40%) Life Science
10 7 (1.40%) PKI
10 7 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.20%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.00%) IoT
13 4 (0.80%) Client/Server
13 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (0.80%) Mobile App
14 3 (0.60%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 66 (13.23%) Linux
2 56 (11.22%) Windows
3 16 (3.21%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.60%) Unix
7 2 (0.40%) Android
7 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.40%) CentOS
8 1 (0.20%) Debian
8 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (53.11%) Agile
2 183 (36.67%) DevOps
3 151 (30.26%) Problem-Solving
4 117 (23.45%) CI/CD
5 105 (21.04%) Software Engineering
6 104 (20.84%) Actionable Insight
7 102 (20.44%) Software Testing
8 81 (16.23%) Test Scripting
9 76 (15.23%) Scrum
10 70 (14.03%) Mentoring
11 65 (13.03%) Continuous Integration
12 63 (12.63%) Coaching
13 60 (12.02%) Computer Science
14 57 (11.42%) Full Stack Development
15 55 (11.02%) Microservices
16 50 (10.02%) Code Quality
17 49 (9.82%) Design Patterns
18 47 (9.42%) User Experience
19 43 (8.62%) Collaborative Working
20 42 (8.42%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 157 (31.46%) SQL
2 134 (26.85%) C#
3 95 (19.04%) Java
4 80 (16.03%) Python
5 75 (15.03%) JavaScript
6 50 (10.02%) C++
7 35 (7.01%) PowerShell
8 33 (6.61%) C
9 15 (3.01%) PHP
10 14 (2.81%) Bash
10 14 (2.81%) TypeScript
11 11 (2.20%) Bicep
12 9 (1.80%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.80%) Ruby
13 7 (1.40%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.80%) Go
14 4 (0.80%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.60%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.60%) VBScript
16 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 149 (29.86%) Security Cleared
2 115 (23.05%) Degree
3 104 (20.84%) SC Cleared
4 47 (9.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (8.22%) ISTQB
6 37 (7.41%) DV Cleared
7 21 (4.21%) DBS Check
8 18 (3.61%) Master's Degree
9 15 (3.01%) ISEB
10 10 (2.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 8 (1.60%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.20%) AWS Certification
12 6 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.60%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.40%) Chartered Engineer
14 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
15 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (32.26%) QA
2 21 (4.21%) Software Quality Assurance
3 10 (2.00%) GDPR
3 10 (2.00%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.40%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 2 (0.40%) SLA
5 1 (0.20%) MISRA
System Software
1 56 (11.22%) Docker
2 13 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.40%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.00%) Firmware
7 4 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.60%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (10.62%) Kubernetes
2 41 (8.22%) Ansible
3 30 (6.01%) Terraform
4 7 (1.40%) MIIS
5 4 (0.80%) Puppet
5 4 (0.80%) WMI
6 3 (0.60%) Kibana
7 2 (0.40%) Rancher
8 1 (0.20%) Grafana
8 1 (0.20%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.20%) Nessus
8 1 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 59 (11.82%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.40%) Xamarin
3 11 (2.20%) VMware
4 8 (1.60%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.20%) Palo Alto
5 6 (1.20%) SAP
5 6 (1.20%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.00%) IBM
7 4 (0.80%) WSO2
8 3 (0.60%) Conga
8 3 (0.60%) Google
8 3 (0.60%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.40%) Oracle
10 1 (0.20%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.20%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.20%) Parasoft
10 1 (0.20%) Splunk
10 1 (0.20%) Thales
10 1 (0.20%) YouTube