QA Automation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 716 636 677
Rank change year-on-year -80 +41 -64
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 39 110 174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.065% 0.19% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 33 71 87
10th Percentile - £47,500 £43,050
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £64,375
90th Percentile £67,000 £72,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,715 56,667 67,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.64% 95.62% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 41,241 29,107 41,040
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in the UK excluding London

QA Automation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for QA Automation in the UK excluding London

QA Automation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation in the UK excluding London

QA Automation
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 QA Automation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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 -5 12 £47,500 -17.39% 2
Scotland - 12 £52,500 -
South West -27 7 £60,000 -7.69%
North of England +31 6 £52,500 -
North West -4 6 £52,500 +16.67%
Wales +6 1 £82,500 +32.00%
East of England -26 1 £38,000 - 1
QA Automation
UK

QA Automation
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 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (51.28%) Azure
2 10 (25.64%) AWS
3 5 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (12.82%) SaaS
4 3 (7.69%) BrowserStack
5 2 (5.13%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.56%) MySQL
1 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (51.28%) Cypress.io
2 16 (41.03%) Selenium
3 9 (23.08%) Postman
4 8 (20.51%) Jenkins
5 7 (17.95%) Cucumber
6 5 (12.82%) JIRA
6 5 (12.82%) JMeter
7 4 (10.26%) Git
8 3 (7.69%) Appium
8 3 (7.69%) JUnit
8 3 (7.69%) Mockito
8 3 (7.69%) SpecFlow
9 2 (5.13%) NUnit
9 2 (5.13%) REST Assured
9 2 (5.13%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (5.13%) Visual Studio
9 2 (5.13%) WebDriver
10 1 (2.56%) Subversion
10 1 (2.56%) TestCafe
General
1 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.26%) Electronics
2 4 (10.26%) Games
3 3 (7.69%) Finance
3 3 (7.69%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.56%) Marketing
4 1 (2.56%) Tech for Good
4 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (51.28%) QA Engineer
2 14 (35.90%) Lead
3 13 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
3 13 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
4 12 (30.77%) QA Leader
5 4 (10.26%) Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Automation Test Lead
6 2 (5.13%) QA Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Test Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Test Leader
7 1 (2.56%) .NET Software Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Head of Test
7 1 (2.56%) Java Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Senior
7 1 (2.56%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (48.72%) Playwright
2 7 (17.95%) .NET
3 4 (10.26%) Spring
4 3 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 3 (7.69%) Swagger
4 3 (7.69%) Web Services
4 3 (7.69%) WireMock
5 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (2.56%) COM
5 1 (2.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Public Cloud
2 4 (10.26%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.13%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (97.44%) Test Automation
2 24 (61.54%) Agile
3 14 (35.90%) Software Testing
4 12 (30.77%) API Testing
4 12 (30.77%) Mentoring
5 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
6 8 (20.51%) Test Scripting
7 7 (17.95%) Software Engineering
8 6 (15.38%) Coaching
8 6 (15.38%) DevOps
8 6 (15.38%) Performance Testing
8 6 (15.38%) Regression Testing
9 5 (12.82%) BDD
9 5 (12.82%) Code Quality
9 5 (12.82%) E-Commerce
9 5 (12.82%) Manual Testing
9 5 (12.82%) Microservices
9 5 (12.82%) Migration
9 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (10.26%) Cross-Browser Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.64%) C#
1 10 (25.64%) Java
1 10 (25.64%) SQL
2 9 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 8 (20.51%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.56%) Degree
1 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (10.26%) ISO 9001
2 4 (10.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.56%) VMware