Test Automation Jobs in the South West

Automated Testing
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 105 51 37
Rank change year-on-year -54 -14 +21
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 243 375 632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.61% 5.49% 7.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.12% 5.82% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 146 197 367
10th Percentile £35,500 £32,800 £37,950
25th Percentile £42,593 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £60,625
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,400 £73,675
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,779 6,447 7,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 83.68% 94.46% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5,564 3,582 5,012
10th Percentile £28,600 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,270 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the South West

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the South West

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the South West over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the South West

Test Automation
Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol -40 87 £57,500 -4.17% 27
Devon +7 65 £60,000 +60.00% 12
Dorset +3 40 £52,500 -9.48% 6
Gloucestershire -38 37 £65,000 +23.81% 10
Wiltshire -34 12 £51,750 -23.33% 4
Somerset -22 1 £45,000 -12.20% 13
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 14 (5.76%) Confluence
2 11 (4.53%) Apache
3 6 (2.47%) SAS
4 4 (1.65%) CMS
4 4 (1.65%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.82%) JBoss
5 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.82%) Mule
5 2 (0.82%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (5.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (5.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (15.23%) AWS
2 31 (12.76%) Azure
3 15 (6.17%) npm
4 14 (5.76%) GitHub
5 9 (3.70%) GCP
6 8 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.88%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.06%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.23%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.23%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.23%) IBM Cloud
10 3 (1.23%) OCI
10 3 (1.23%) Route 53
11 2 (0.82%) Datadog
11 2 (0.82%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.82%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (14.40%) 5G
1 35 (14.40%) SD-WAN
1 35 (14.40%) WAN
2 9 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 8 (3.29%) DNS
3 8 (3.29%) HTTP
3 8 (3.29%) Internet
3 8 (3.29%) SMTP
4 2 (0.82%) SSL
4 2 (0.82%) VPN
5 1 (0.41%) Broadband
5 1 (0.41%) Network Security
5 1 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.58%) MySQL
1 16 (6.58%) Relational Database
2 14 (5.76%) SQL Server
3 12 (4.94%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.47%) Power BI
5 6 (2.47%) Tableau
6 5 (2.06%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.65%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.82%) Big Data
8 2 (0.82%) DB2
8 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.41%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (16.05%) Selenium
2 38 (15.64%) Git
3 32 (13.17%) Jenkins
4 31 (12.76%) JIRA
5 20 (8.23%) Cucumber
6 13 (5.35%) Cypress.io
6 13 (5.35%) Storybook
7 11 (4.53%) LabVIEW
7 11 (4.53%) TeamCity
8 9 (3.70%) Subversion
9 8 (3.29%) Postman
9 8 (3.29%) SonarQube
9 8 (3.29%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (2.88%) Maven
11 5 (2.06%) Bitbucket
11 5 (2.06%) SpecFlow
12 4 (1.65%) JMeter
12 4 (1.65%) Moq
12 4 (1.65%) Visual Studio
12 4 (1.65%) Zephyr
General
1 97 (39.92%) Social Skills
2 76 (31.28%) Finance
3 61 (25.10%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (15.23%) Presentation Skills
5 32 (13.17%) Electronics
6 25 (10.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (9.05%) Banking
8 19 (7.82%) Law
9 16 (6.58%) Public Sector
10 14 (5.76%) Financial Institution
10 14 (5.76%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (4.94%) Retail
12 10 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (4.12%) Investment Banking
13 8 (3.29%) Legal
14 7 (2.88%) Automotive
15 4 (1.65%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.82%) Games
16 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.82%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 73 (30.04%) Developer
2 42 (17.28%) Senior
3 35 (14.40%) Lead
4 32 (13.17%) Software Engineer
5 30 (12.35%) Software Developer
6 26 (10.70%) Test Engineer
7 19 (7.82%) Senior Developer
8 16 (6.58%) RF Engineer
9 13 (5.35%) GNSS Engineer
9 13 (5.35%) QA Engineer
9 13 (5.35%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (4.94%) Java Engineer
11 11 (4.53%) Product Engineer
11 11 (4.53%) Project Leader
11 11 (4.53%) Technical Leader
11 11 (4.53%) Technical Project Leader
11 11 (4.53%) Verification Engineer
12 10 (4.12%) Python Engineer
12 10 (4.12%) Systems Engineer
13 9 (3.70%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.76%) .NET
2 27 (11.11%) Node.js
3 18 (7.41%) React
4 17 (7.00%) AngularJS
5 16 (6.58%) Spring
6 14 (5.76%) Gherkin
7 13 (5.35%) CSS
7 13 (5.35%) HTML
7 13 (5.35%) Sass
8 11 (4.53%) RESTful
9 10 (4.12%) Spring Boot
10 9 (3.70%) .NET Framework
11 8 (3.29%) ASP.NET
11 8 (3.29%) Kafka
11 8 (3.29%) pytest
12 7 (2.88%) Entity Framework
12 7 (2.88%) jQuery
12 7 (2.88%) LAMP
12 7 (2.88%) REST
12 7 (2.88%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.17%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (10.29%) GNSS
3 15 (6.17%) Management Information System
4 13 (5.35%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.53%) FPGA
6 10 (4.12%) Onboarding
7 9 (3.70%) Mobile App
8 8 (3.29%) CUDA
8 8 (3.29%) MicroBlaze
8 8 (3.29%) Robotics
8 8 (3.29%) Tandem
8 8 (3.29%) VHDL
9 7 (2.88%) Animation
9 7 (2.88%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.88%) Video Editing
10 6 (2.47%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.47%) Credit Risk
10 6 (2.47%) Market Risk
11 5 (2.06%) Private Cloud
11 5 (2.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (20.16%) Linux
2 44 (18.11%) Windows
3 22 (9.05%) Apple iOS
4 19 (7.82%) Unix
5 8 (3.29%) Debian
5 8 (3.29%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.06%) Android
7 3 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.82%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.41%) CentOS
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (50.62%) Problem-Solving
2 99 (40.74%) Agile
3 61 (25.10%) Software Engineering
4 60 (24.69%) B2B
5 59 (24.28%) DevOps
6 57 (23.46%) Computer Science
7 50 (20.58%) CI/CD
8 49 (20.16%) Mentoring
9 47 (19.34%) Scrum
10 44 (18.11%) Continuous Integration
11 40 (16.46%) Containerisation
12 39 (16.05%) Project Delivery
13 37 (15.23%) Coaching
14 35 (14.40%) Test Assurance
15 34 (13.99%) End-to-End Testing
16 28 (11.52%) Time Management
17 26 (10.70%) TDD
18 25 (10.29%) SDLC
18 25 (10.29%) Test Scripting
19 24 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 79 (32.51%) Java
2 69 (28.40%) Python
3 61 (25.10%) JavaScript
4 35 (14.40%) C#
5 33 (13.58%) C++
6 30 (12.35%) SQL
7 27 (11.11%) C
8 23 (9.47%) TypeScript
9 22 (9.05%) MATLAB
10 14 (5.76%) Bash
11 12 (4.94%) PHP
12 9 (3.70%) Go
12 9 (3.70%) Kotlin
12 9 (3.70%) Rust
13 8 (3.29%) Perl
13 8 (3.29%) Tcl
13 8 (3.29%) VB
14 7 (2.88%) Ruby
15 6 (2.47%) R
16 5 (2.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 105 (43.21%) Degree
2 16 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (4.53%) HND
3 11 (4.53%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.47%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.65%) ISEB
7 3 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.23%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.82%) HNC
9 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.41%) MCSA
9 1 (0.41%) MCSD
9 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (18.11%) QA
2 19 (7.82%) PMO
3 7 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.23%) JTAG
5 2 (0.82%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 30 (12.35%) Docker
2 17 (7.00%) Firmware
3 16 (6.58%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (5.76%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.35%) Terraform
3 11 (4.53%) Ansible
3 11 (4.53%) Progress Chef
4 7 (2.88%) Puppet
5 5 (2.06%) Argo
6 3 (1.23%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.82%) Nagios
7 2 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (16.46%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.53%) Xamarin
3 9 (3.70%) UiPath
4 8 (3.29%) Altera
4 8 (3.29%) Green Hills
4 8 (3.29%) Motorola
4 8 (3.29%) Oracle
4 8 (3.29%) Xilinx
5 7 (2.88%) Google
6 6 (2.47%) Alteryx
6 6 (2.47%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.47%) Pega
6 6 (2.47%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.23%) Automation Anywhere
7 3 (1.23%) Blue Prism
7 3 (1.23%) Coverity
7 3 (1.23%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.23%) IBM
7 3 (1.23%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.82%) Splunk