Test Automation Jobs in Southampton

Automated Testing
Hampshire > Southampton

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Southampton 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 17 29
Rank change year-on-year -41 +12 +7
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 22 83 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 2.60% 10.51% 8.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 11.13% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 14 62 99
10th Percentile £42,866 £38,300 £32,300
25th Percentile £52,063 £46,563 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +15.79% +15.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £63,375 £72,500 £67,500
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 700 746 1,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 82.84% 94.43% 96.64%
Number of salaries quoted 602 556 971
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £85,000
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £53,875
% change year-on-year -6.54% -0.70% +7.75%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Southampton

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Southampton

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Southampton

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Southampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Southampton over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Southampton

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Mathematica
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) GCP
3 2 (9.09%) IBM Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Selenium
2 6 (27.27%) Cucumber
2 6 (27.27%) JBehave
2 6 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 6 (27.27%) JIRA
2 6 (27.27%) SpecFlow
2 6 (27.27%) TeamCity
3 2 (9.09%) JMeter
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Retail
3 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Senior
2 8 (36.36%) Test Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) .NET Software Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) C# Software Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Senior C# Software Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Senior Software Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Software Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Test Manager
6 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 2 (9.09%) QA Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Full Stack Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) .NET
2 7 (31.82%) ASP.NET
2 7 (31.82%) Blazor
3 6 (27.27%) .NET Core
3 6 (27.27%) Gherkin
4 2 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Onboarding
2 6 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 6 (27.27%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Agile
2 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 10 (45.45%) DevOps
4 9 (40.91%) Design Patterns
4 9 (40.91%) Full Stack Development
4 9 (40.91%) TDD
5 8 (36.36%) BDD
5 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (31.82%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 7 (31.82%) Client Onboarding
6 7 (31.82%) Deployment Automation
6 7 (31.82%) Lean Software Development
6 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
6 7 (31.82%) Trade Surveillance
7 6 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (27.27%) Test Scripting
8 4 (18.18%) SDLC
8 4 (18.18%) Secure Coding
8 4 (18.18%) Unit Testing
9 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) SQL
2 9 (40.91%) C#
3 7 (31.82%) T-SQL
4 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.09%) Java
5 2 (9.09%) Python
5 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) DBS Check
2 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) IBM