Test Automation Job Trends in Bournemouth

Automated Testing
Dorset > Bournemouth

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bournemouth requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 14 29
Rank change year-on-year -4 +15 +2
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 8 16 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Bournemouth 5.48% 10.81% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.11% 11.51% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 6
10th Percentile - £39,875 -
25th Percentile - £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +72.97% -2.63% -
75th Percentile - £50,000 £57,188
90th Percentile - - £60,000
Dorset median annual salary £80,000 £46,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +72.97% -11.90% +10.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bournemouth

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 Bournemouth.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 131 139 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bournemouth 89.73% 93.92% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 90 87 139
10th Percentile £27,707 £39,350 £36,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £44,325 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -16.67% +26.32%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
Dorset median annual salary £39,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -21.00% -9.09% +13.99%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Bournemouth

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) CockroachDB
2 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 4 (50.00%) GitLab
2 4 (50.00%) JUnit
2 4 (50.00%) Selenium
2 4 (50.00%) TestNG
3 3 (37.50%) Gradle
3 3 (37.50%) JIRA
3 3 (37.50%) Maven
3 3 (37.50%) Postman
3 3 (37.50%) REST Assured
4 2 (25.00%) Checkstyle
4 2 (25.00%) ESLint
4 2 (25.00%) Mockito
4 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
5 1 (12.50%) Git
5 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Django Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Principal Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Python/Django Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) REST
2 3 (37.50%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (37.50%) Spring
2 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
2 3 (37.50%) Spring MVC
3 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (25.00%) Django
3 2 (25.00%) JWT
3 2 (25.00%) OAuth
3 2 (25.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (25.00%) OpenAPI
3 2 (25.00%) Playwright
3 2 (25.00%) React
3 2 (25.00%) Spring Security
3 2 (25.00%) Swagger
4 1 (12.50%) Kafka
4 1 (12.50%) pytest
4 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Private Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) API Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) MVC
5 2 (25.00%) API Design
5 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) Defect Management
5 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (25.00%) Pair Programming
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Project Management
5 2 (25.00%) SOLID
5 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) C#
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (25.00%) Bash
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (37.50%) Google
2 3 (37.50%) Splunk