QA Automation Jobs in the Thames Valley

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 250 264
Rank change year-on-year +3 +14 -47
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 6 10 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.090% 0.17% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.18% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 11
10th Percentile £35,000 £53,125 £55,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £53,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -17.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £53,438 £61,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £60,625 £61,375 -
South East median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% -17.86% +40.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

QA 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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,682 5,678 6,510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 84.81% 94.74% 92.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,901 3,105 3,905
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in the Thames Valley

QA Automation
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Automation in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for QA Automation in the Thames Valley

QA Automation
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation in the Thames Valley

QA Automation
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 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
Buckinghamshire -12 4 £51,250 -6.82% 2
Oxfordshire +8 1 £35,000 -39.13%
Berkshire - 1 £40,000 - 1
QA Automation
South East

QA Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) NUnit
2 2 (33.33%) Postman
2 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (16.67%) Appium
3 1 (16.67%) JMeter
3 1 (16.67%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Mockito
3 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
3 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Health Technology
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) API Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Build Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Fintech
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) SDET
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 1 (16.67%) Time Management
4 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft