Automation Tester Jobs in the UK excluding London

Automation Tester
UK > UK excluding London

The median Automation Tester salary in the UK excluding London is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 710 672 600
Rank change year-on-year -38 -72 -97
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Tester 61 81 270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.082% 0.14% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.16% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 27 72 176
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +25.00% +2.22%
75th Percentile £64,375 £67,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £63,250
UK median annual salary £56,250 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +15.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 70,794 51,688 70,298
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.94% 89.09% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 49,908 29,605 42,636
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,348
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in the UK excluding London

Automation Tester
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Automation Tester in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Automation Tester in the UK excluding London

Automation Tester
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Tester in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Automation Tester in the UK excluding London

Automation Tester
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Tester within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
South East -7 42 £62,500 +8.70% 2
North of England +29 14 £46,250 -2.63% 4
North West -1 9 £47,500 -17.39% 1
Yorkshire +77 4 £45,000 +8.43% 3
East of England +1 3 £49,500 -5.71% 1
West Midlands -10 2 £45,000 -23.40% 2
Midlands -25 2 £45,000 -23.40% 2
North East -3 1 - -
Automation Tester
UK

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 29 May 2024, Automation Tester job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 61 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 53 (86.89%) Selenium
3 44 (72.13%) Agile
4 35 (57.38%) QA
5 34 (55.74%) Security Cleared
6 29 (47.54%) Test Scripting
7 25 (40.98%) Requirements Analysis
7 25 (40.98%) Technical Analysis
7 25 (40.98%) Mentoring
7 25 (40.98%) Coaching
7 25 (40.98%) Test Assurance
8 23 (37.70%) Collaborative Working
8 23 (37.70%) DV Cleared
8 23 (37.70%) Aerospace
9 21 (34.43%) Java
9 21 (34.43%) Actionable Insight
9 21 (34.43%) Cucumber
10 18 (29.51%) Scrum
10 18 (29.51%) CI/CD
11 16 (26.23%) JavaScript
11 16 (26.23%) Software Testing
11 16 (26.23%) WebDriver
12 14 (22.95%) BDD
12 14 (22.95%) API Testing
12 14 (22.95%) REST Assured
13 13 (21.31%) Scenario Testing
13 13 (21.31%) TestNG
13 13 (21.31%) JUnit
14 11 (18.03%) SC Cleared
14 11 (18.03%) Continuous Integration

Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (16.39%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.11%) SaaS
2 4 (6.56%) GitHub
3 3 (4.92%) AWS
3 3 (4.92%) Azure
4 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 53 (86.89%) Selenium
2 21 (34.43%) Cucumber
3 16 (26.23%) WebDriver
4 14 (22.95%) REST Assured
5 13 (21.31%) JUnit
5 13 (21.31%) TestNG
6 7 (11.48%) Appium
7 6 (9.84%) JMeter
7 6 (9.84%) SpecFlow
8 5 (8.20%) JIRA
8 5 (8.20%) Postman
8 5 (8.20%) SoapUI
9 4 (6.56%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (6.56%) Jenkins
9 4 (6.56%) Protractor
9 4 (6.56%) Serenity BDD
10 3 (4.92%) Bitbucket
10 3 (4.92%) TeamCity
11 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
11 2 (3.28%) Git
General
1 23 (37.70%) Aerospace
2 9 (14.75%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.28%) Banking
5 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.64%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.03%) REST
1 11 (18.03%) WireMock
2 10 (16.39%) Apache Commons
2 10 (16.39%) Guava
2 10 (16.39%) Java Concurrency
3 7 (11.48%) Gherkin
4 5 (8.20%) .NET
5 4 (6.56%) RESTful
5 4 (6.56%) Web Services
6 3 (4.92%) SOAP
7 2 (3.28%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.28%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (1.64%) ADO
8 1 (1.64%) CSS
8 1 (1.64%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.56%) Client/Server
1 4 (6.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 44 (72.13%) Agile
3 29 (47.54%) Test Scripting
4 25 (40.98%) Coaching
4 25 (40.98%) Mentoring
4 25 (40.98%) Requirements Analysis
4 25 (40.98%) Technical Analysis
4 25 (40.98%) Test Assurance
5 23 (37.70%) Collaborative Working
6 21 (34.43%) Actionable Insight
7 18 (29.51%) CI/CD
7 18 (29.51%) Scrum
8 16 (26.23%) Software Testing
9 14 (22.95%) API Testing
9 14 (22.95%) BDD
10 13 (21.31%) Scenario Testing
11 11 (18.03%) Code Quality
11 11 (18.03%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (16.39%) Containerisation
12 10 (16.39%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 21 (34.43%) Java
2 16 (26.23%) JavaScript
3 9 (14.75%) C#
4 7 (11.48%) SQL
5 1 (1.64%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.64%) VB
5 1 (1.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (55.74%) Security Cleared
2 23 (37.70%) DV Cleared
3 11 (18.03%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.56%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.64%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (57.38%) QA
2 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (16.39%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (16.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.64%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (1.64%) HP
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft
1 1 (1.64%) Oracle