Test Automation Jobs in the Thames Valley

Automated Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 34 28
Rank change year-on-year -69 -6 +9
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 158 429 516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.35% 6.98% 7.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 7.38% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 98 140 305
10th Percentile £40,800 £44,950 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% -3.60% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,625 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,745 5,814 6,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.39% 94.60% 92.69%
Number of salaries quoted 4,050 3,170 3,948
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,725 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £71,250
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% - +7.84%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the Thames Valley

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the Thames Valley

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the Thames Valley

Test 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 Test Automation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 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
Berkshire -55 87 £67,500 +8.00% 15
Buckinghamshire -12 42 £47,500 -7.32% 8
Oxfordshire -62 29 £59,000 +2.61% 7
Test Automation
South East

Test 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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (9.49%) SharePoint
2 11 (6.96%) Apache
3 10 (6.33%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.27%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.63%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (6.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (8.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (29.75%) Azure
2 29 (18.35%) AWS
3 26 (16.46%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (14.56%) Dynamics 365
5 17 (10.76%) Power Automate
6 14 (8.86%) GitHub
7 10 (6.33%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (6.33%) SaaS
7 10 (6.33%) Serverless
8 7 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (4.43%) IaaS
8 7 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.16%) PaaS
10 3 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.90%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (1.27%) GCP
12 1 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.63%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 23 (14.56%) Wi-Fi
2 22 (13.92%) 5G
2 22 (13.92%) Bluetooth
2 22 (13.92%) GSM
2 22 (13.92%) ISDN
2 22 (13.92%) LTE
2 22 (13.92%) PSTN
2 22 (13.92%) UMTS
2 22 (13.92%) Wireless
3 3 (1.90%) Internet
4 2 (1.27%) Broadband
5 1 (0.63%) DHCP
5 1 (0.63%) DNS
5 1 (0.63%) MQTT
5 1 (0.63%) RS-485
5 1 (0.63%) VLAN
5 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.13%) Relational Database
2 8 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.06%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.43%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.63%) Big Data
4 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (23.42%) Selenium
2 24 (15.19%) Cucumber
2 24 (15.19%) Git
3 22 (13.92%) LabVIEW
4 21 (13.29%) WebDriver
5 20 (12.66%) Jenkins
6 13 (8.23%) JIRA
7 12 (7.59%) JUnit
8 11 (6.96%) NUnit
8 11 (6.96%) REST Assured
8 11 (6.96%) TestNG
8 11 (6.96%) Visual Studio
9 9 (5.70%) JMeter
9 9 (5.70%) TestRail
10 8 (5.06%) Bitbucket Server
10 8 (5.06%) Serenity BDD
11 7 (4.43%) Bitbucket
11 7 (4.43%) SoapUI
12 4 (2.53%) Postman
13 3 (1.90%) Artifactory
General
1 23 (14.56%) Law
1 23 (14.56%) Telecoms
2 22 (13.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (10.76%) Social Skills
4 16 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.33%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.06%) Retail
7 7 (4.43%) Back Office
7 7 (4.43%) Police
8 4 (2.53%) Marketing
9 3 (1.90%) Finance
9 3 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.63%) Electronics
10 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.63%) Legal
10 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (24.68%) Developer
2 18 (11.39%) Tester
3 17 (10.76%) Consultant
4 16 (10.13%) Analyst
4 16 (10.13%) Automation Tester
5 15 (9.49%) Hardware Engineer
6 14 (8.86%) CRM Consultant
6 14 (8.86%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 14 (8.86%) QA Engineer
6 14 (8.86%) Test Engineer
7 13 (8.23%) Test Analyst
8 12 (7.59%) Mobile Developer
9 10 (6.33%) Software Developer
10 9 (5.70%) Microsoft Consultant
11 8 (5.06%) Hardware Test Engineer
12 7 (4.43%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (4.43%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
12 7 (4.43%) Java Developer
12 7 (4.43%) Microsoft CRM Consultant
12 7 (4.43%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (18.99%) .NET
2 22 (13.92%) Web Services
3 21 (13.29%) JSON
3 21 (13.29%) REST
4 18 (11.39%) .NET Core
5 16 (10.13%) XML
6 12 (7.59%) React Native
7 11 (6.96%) AngularJS
7 11 (6.96%) WireMock
8 10 (6.33%) Apache Commons
8 10 (6.33%) Guava
8 10 (6.33%) Java Concurrency
9 9 (5.70%) CSS
10 8 (5.06%) Node.js
10 8 (5.06%) RESTful
10 8 (5.06%) Spring
10 8 (5.06%) Spring Boot
11 7 (4.43%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (4.43%) SOAP
12 5 (3.16%) React
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.92%) Acoustics
1 22 (13.92%) Satnav
2 9 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.43%) Life Science
4 4 (2.53%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.90%) IoT
5 3 (1.90%) Robotics
6 2 (1.27%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.63%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.63%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.39%) Linux
2 3 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.27%) CentOS
3 2 (1.27%) Windows
3 2 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.63%) Debian
4 1 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.63%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (65.19%) Agile
2 57 (36.08%) DevOps
3 41 (25.95%) Continuous Integration
4 40 (25.32%) CI/CD
5 32 (20.25%) Scrum
6 31 (19.62%) SDET
7 29 (18.35%) Software Testing
7 29 (18.35%) Test Scripting
8 28 (17.72%) Coaching
9 27 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (16.46%) CRM
11 25 (15.82%) Microservices
12 24 (15.19%) Containerisation
13 22 (13.92%) Critical Thinking
13 22 (13.92%) Data Management
14 20 (12.66%) BDD
14 20 (12.66%) Manual Testing
14 20 (12.66%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 18 (11.39%) Artificial Intelligence
15 18 (11.39%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (27.22%) SQL
2 41 (25.95%) C#
2 41 (25.95%) Python
3 34 (21.52%) Java
4 20 (12.66%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.80%) Bash
5 6 (3.80%) Ruby
6 4 (2.53%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.90%) Go
7 3 (1.90%) Groovy
7 3 (1.90%) Perl
7 3 (1.90%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.27%) C
8 2 (1.27%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.27%) VBScript
9 1 (0.63%) C++
9 1 (0.63%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 58 (36.71%) Degree
2 39 (24.68%) Security Cleared
3 22 (13.92%) SC Cleared
4 14 (8.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (7.59%) ISTQB
6 9 (5.70%) Azure Certification
6 9 (5.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 8 (5.06%) DBS Check
7 8 (5.06%) DV Cleared
8 7 (4.43%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.27%) ISEB
9 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (32.28%) QA
System Software
1 32 (20.25%) Docker
2 7 (4.43%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.63%) Firmware
4 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (23.42%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.86%) Ansible
3 10 (6.33%) Terraform
4 2 (1.27%) Kibana
4 2 (1.27%) Packer
4 2 (1.27%) Rancher
5 1 (0.63%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.59%) Xamarin
3 5 (3.16%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.53%) VMware
4 4 (2.53%) WSO2
5 3 (1.90%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.90%) Conga
5 3 (1.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.27%) Google
6 2 (1.27%) IBM
6 2 (1.27%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle
7 1 (0.63%) YouTube