Test Automation Jobs in Bedford

Automated Testing
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bedford requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 2 0 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedford 3.03% - 7.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% - 7.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.58%
75th Percentile £73,750 - £41,250
90th Percentile - - £48,750
Bedfordshire median annual salary £68,750 £53,250 £37,500
% change year-on-year +29.11% +42.00% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedford

Test Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58 104 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedford 87.88% 70.75% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 32 86 97
10th Percentile £38,000 £24,688 £32,600
25th Percentile £49,688 £27,179 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £35,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +51.43% -39.13% +27.78%
75th Percentile £74,313 £50,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £94,750 £61,250 £69,250
Bedfordshire median annual salary £52,250 £50,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.47% -12.17% +15.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedford

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Bedford

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Bedford

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Bedford

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedford 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) GSM
1 1 (50.00%) LTE
1 1 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (50.00%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DSP Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DSP Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JPA
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Redux
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) FPGA
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Issue Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Solace