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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 33 28
Rank change year-on-year -55 -5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 510 990 1,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.04% 6.78% 8.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 7.17% 9.10%
Number of salaries quoted 287 481 968
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £82,500
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 14,188 13,810 18,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.53% 94.55% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9,890 8,011 11,960
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £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 £77,500 £85,000 £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 8 May 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 8 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
Thames Valley -70 156 £60,000 -4.00% 38
Hampshire -30 152 £50,000 -16.67% 37
Surrey -6 127 £47,500 -17.39% 14
Berkshire -53 83 £62,500 -3.85% 18
Buckinghamshire -11 43 £47,500 -1.55% 13
East Sussex -4 30 £70,000 +16.67% 2
Oxfordshire -56 30 £59,000 +2.61% 8
Kent -12 18 £65,000 -
West Sussex -32 17 £65,000 +13.04% 7
Middlesex -15 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 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.35%) Apache
3 10 (1.96%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.18%) Confluence
5 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.78%) TWiki
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.20%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (1.96%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.78%) Doxygen
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.20%) Mathematica
5 1 (0.20%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 14 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 153 (30.00%) Azure
2 82 (16.08%) SaaS
3 76 (14.90%) AWS
4 61 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (4.51%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (4.12%) Serverless
7 18 (3.53%) GitHub
8 17 (3.33%) IaaS
8 17 (3.33%) Power Automate
9 15 (2.94%) PaaS
10 11 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (1.57%) Pulumi
12 7 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (1.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (1.37%) Azure Functions
12 7 (1.37%) GCP
13 6 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (0.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.51%) 5G
1 23 (4.51%) Bluetooth
1 23 (4.51%) Wi-Fi
1 23 (4.51%) Wireless
2 22 (4.31%) GSM
2 22 (4.31%) ISDN
2 22 (4.31%) LTE
2 22 (4.31%) PSTN
2 22 (4.31%) UMTS
3 15 (2.94%) Network Security
4 10 (1.96%) HTTP
5 5 (0.98%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.78%) Firewall
7 3 (0.59%) Internet
8 2 (0.39%) Broadband
8 2 (0.39%) MQTT
8 2 (0.39%) RS-485
9 1 (0.20%) DHCP
9 1 (0.20%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.20%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 37 (7.25%) NoSQL
3 25 (4.90%) Relational Database
4 13 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.76%) MySQL
6 7 (1.37%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.98%) Redis
8 3 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.39%) Big Data
9 2 (0.39%) DB2
9 2 (0.39%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.39%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.20%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.20%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.20%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 129 (25.29%) Selenium
2 61 (11.96%) Jenkins
3 59 (11.57%) Git
3 59 (11.57%) JIRA
4 29 (5.69%) Cucumber
5 28 (5.49%) WebDriver
6 24 (4.71%) Ant
7 22 (4.31%) LabVIEW
7 22 (4.31%) Postman
7 22 (4.31%) Visual Studio
8 21 (4.12%) NUnit
9 20 (3.92%) JMeter
10 19 (3.73%) REST Assured
11 18 (3.53%) GitLab
12 17 (3.33%) TeamCity
13 16 (3.14%) JUnit
14 15 (2.94%) Cypress.io
14 15 (2.94%) TestRail
15 14 (2.75%) SpecFlow
15 14 (2.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 104 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 47 (9.22%) Aerospace
3 41 (8.04%) Finance
4 30 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 30 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 29 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (5.10%) Law
8 24 (4.71%) Retail
9 23 (4.51%) Public Sector
10 19 (3.73%) Marketing
11 11 (2.16%) Legal
12 10 (1.96%) Electronics
13 9 (1.76%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.57%) Police
15 7 (1.37%) Back Office
16 6 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
17 3 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.59%) Multimedia
17 3 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (22.16%) Developer
2 62 (12.16%) Tester
3 59 (11.57%) Software Engineer
4 48 (9.41%) Senior
5 43 (8.43%) Automation Tester
6 42 (8.24%) Analyst
7 37 (7.25%) Test Engineer
8 31 (6.08%) Test Analyst
9 30 (5.88%) Lead
10 26 (5.10%) DevOps Engineer
10 26 (5.10%) QA Engineer
10 26 (5.10%) Software Developer
11 25 (4.90%) Software Manager
12 24 (4.71%) C++ Developer
12 24 (4.71%) Full Stack Developer
13 22 (4.31%) C++ Software Engineer
14 21 (4.12%) Engineering Manager
15 20 (3.92%) Software Engineering Manager
16 19 (3.73%) Azure Developer
17 17 (3.33%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (22.75%) .NET
2 43 (8.43%) RESTful
3 42 (8.24%) React
4 36 (7.06%) .NET Core
5 35 (6.86%) CSS
6 33 (6.47%) Web Services
7 29 (5.69%) AngularJS
8 28 (5.49%) HTML
9 27 (5.29%) REST
10 24 (4.71%) ASP.NET
10 24 (4.71%) Hibernate
11 23 (4.51%) Vue
12 21 (4.12%) JSON
13 17 (3.33%) Middleware
13 17 (3.33%) Node.js
13 17 (3.33%) XML
14 16 (3.14%) jQuery
15 15 (2.94%) Laravel
16 14 (2.75%) OAuth
17 13 (2.55%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.43%) Satnav
2 22 (4.31%) Acoustics
2 22 (4.31%) Management Information System
3 20 (3.92%) Algorithms
4 19 (3.73%) Product Ownership
5 15 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.94%) Low-Code
6 14 (2.75%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.35%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.57%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.37%) Life Science
9 7 (1.37%) PKI
9 7 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.18%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.18%) IoT
11 4 (0.78%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 73 (14.31%) Linux
2 56 (10.98%) Windows
3 16 (3.14%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.59%) CentOS
6 3 (0.59%) Unix
7 2 (0.39%) Android
7 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.39%) Debian
7 2 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (53.92%) Agile
2 184 (36.08%) DevOps
3 151 (29.61%) Problem-Solving
4 116 (22.75%) Software Engineering
5 112 (21.96%) CI/CD
6 104 (20.39%) Actionable Insight
6 104 (20.39%) Software Testing
7 82 (16.08%) Scrum
7 82 (16.08%) Test Scripting
8 72 (14.12%) Mentoring
9 65 (12.75%) Coaching
9 65 (12.75%) Continuous Integration
10 60 (11.76%) Computer Science
11 58 (11.37%) Full Stack Development
12 55 (10.78%) Microservices
13 50 (9.80%) Code Quality
14 49 (9.61%) Design Patterns
15 48 (9.41%) User Experience
16 46 (9.02%) Collaborative Working
17 44 (8.63%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 162 (31.76%) SQL
2 136 (26.67%) C#
3 104 (20.39%) Java
4 89 (17.45%) Python
5 74 (14.51%) JavaScript
6 52 (10.20%) C++
7 35 (6.86%) PowerShell
8 33 (6.47%) C
9 17 (3.33%) Kotlin
10 15 (2.94%) PHP
11 14 (2.75%) Bash
11 14 (2.75%) TypeScript
12 11 (2.16%) Bicep
13 9 (1.76%) Ruby
14 7 (1.37%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.78%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.59%) Go
16 3 (0.59%) VBScript
17 2 (0.39%) Perl
17 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 151 (29.61%) Security Cleared
2 115 (22.55%) Degree
3 103 (20.20%) SC Cleared
4 47 (9.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (8.43%) ISTQB
6 39 (7.65%) DV Cleared
7 21 (4.12%) DBS Check
8 18 (3.53%) Master's Degree
9 15 (2.94%) ISEB
10 12 (2.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 8 (1.57%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.18%) AWS Certification
12 6 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.59%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.39%) Chartered Engineer
14 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
15 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (32.35%) QA
2 21 (4.12%) Software Quality Assurance
3 10 (1.96%) GDPR
3 10 (1.96%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.39%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 2 (0.39%) SLA
5 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.20%) MISRA
System Software
1 56 (10.98%) Docker
2 13 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.37%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.18%) Firmware
5 6 (1.18%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.59%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (10.39%) Kubernetes
2 41 (8.04%) Ansible
3 28 (5.49%) Terraform
4 7 (1.37%) MIIS
5 4 (0.78%) Puppet
5 4 (0.78%) WMI
6 2 (0.39%) Kibana
6 2 (0.39%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.20%) Grafana
7 1 (0.20%) Nessus
7 1 (0.20%) Packer
7 1 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 59 (11.57%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.35%) Xamarin
3 10 (1.96%) VMware
4 8 (1.57%) Salesforce
5 7 (1.37%) SAP
6 5 (0.98%) ServiceNow
7 4 (0.78%) IBM
7 4 (0.78%) Palo Alto
7 4 (0.78%) WSO2
8 3 (0.59%) Conga
8 3 (0.59%) Google
8 3 (0.59%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle
10 1 (0.20%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.20%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.20%) Atmel
10 1 (0.20%) Freescale
10 1 (0.20%) Splunk
10 1 (0.20%) Thales