Test Automation Jobs in Bedfordshire

Automated Testing
East of England > Bedfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 32 53
Rank change year-on-year -13 +21 -8
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 4 62 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 0.91% 8.38% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 8.64% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 3
10th Percentile £42,275 - £39,000
25th Percentile £46,063 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.00% -16.67% -30.77%
75th Percentile £59,563 £48,750 £45,500
90th Percentile £62,825 £60,000 £45,800
East of England median annual salary £51,250 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -24.07% +22.73% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 340 718 568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 77.45% 97.03% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 241 329 297
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,764 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £46,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +19.39% -2.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £88,750 £70,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Bedfordshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Bedfordshire

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Bedfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Bedfordshire

Test Automation
Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Luton +11 3 £65,000 -
Leighton Buzzard - 1 £41,500 -
Test Automation
East of England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Synthetic Environment
2 2 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA