Test Automation Jobs in Bedfordshire

Automated Testing
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 46 30
Rank change year-on-year +12 -16 +33
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 25 4 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 4.22% 0.90% 9.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 1.17% 9.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile £62,125 £42,275 -
25th Percentile £63,438 £46,063 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £53,250 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.11% +42.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £72,813 £59,563 £45,000
90th Percentile £73,375 £62,825 £51,000
East of England median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% -15.38% +26.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 565 343 662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 95.28% 77.25% 97.64%
Number of salaries quoted 115 239 303
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,900 £35,764
25th Percentile £40,825 £32,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £51,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -11.30% +15.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,000 £92,500 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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
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 13 May 2025. 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 +7 3 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Bedford - 2 £67,500 - 3
Leighton Buzzard -4 1 - -
Biggleswade - 1 - - 1
Dunstable - 1 - -
Henlow - 1 - -
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 10 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) AWS
1 11 (44.00%) Azure
2 10 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (52.00%) TCP/IP
1 13 (52.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) GSM
2 1 (4.00%) LTE
2 1 (4.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (4.00%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (4.00%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (44.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (92.00%) Cucumber
2 13 (52.00%) Robot Framework
3 10 (40.00%) Bitbucket
3 10 (40.00%) GitLab
3 10 (40.00%) JIRA
3 10 (40.00%) Maven
3 10 (40.00%) Selenium
3 10 (40.00%) SonarQube
3 10 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (8.00%) Git
General
1 23 (92.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (52.00%) Telecoms
4 10 (40.00%) Banking
4 10 (40.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 13 (52.00%) Test Engineer
2 10 (40.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 1 (4.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Developer
4 1 (4.00%) DSP Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior DSP Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) CSS
1 10 (40.00%) Hibernate
1 10 (40.00%) HTML
1 10 (40.00%) JPA
1 10 (40.00%) Kafka
1 10 (40.00%) React
1 10 (40.00%) Redux
1 10 (40.00%) Spring
1 10 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (56.00%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (40.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) FPGA
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Linux
2 13 (52.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) DevOps
2 14 (56.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (56.00%) System Testing
3 13 (52.00%) Coaching
3 13 (52.00%) Mentoring
3 13 (52.00%) Test Management
4 12 (48.00%) Agile
5 11 (44.00%) Microservices
6 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
6 10 (40.00%) Clean Code
6 10 (40.00%) Containerisation
6 10 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (40.00%) Front End Development
6 10 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 10 (40.00%) SDLC
6 10 (40.00%) Software Engineering
6 10 (40.00%) TDD
7 1 (4.00%) API Design
7 1 (4.00%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 23 (92.00%) JavaScript
2 14 (56.00%) Bash
2 14 (56.00%) Python
3 13 (52.00%) PowerShell
4 10 (40.00%) Java
4 10 (40.00%) SQL
5 1 (4.00%) C
5 1 (4.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (92.00%) QA
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Solace