Test Automation Jobs in Bournemouth

Automated Testing
Dorset > Bournemouth

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bournemouth 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 54 28
Rank change year-on-year +39 -26 +3
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 5 21 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bournemouth 8.33% 3.23% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.62% 3.51% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £37,875 - £40,100
25th Percentile £38,438 £55,000 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £51,875 £66,875 £59,438
90th Percentile £62,000 £68,000 £62,025
Dorset median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% -7.08% +13.00%

All Process and 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 58 599 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bournemouth 96.67% 92.01% 97.69%
Number of salaries quoted 38 269 110
10th Percentile - £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £62,188
90th Percentile £70,625 £75,000 £81,875
Dorset median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.63% - -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Bournemouth

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Bournemouth

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Bournemouth

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Bournemouth

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Bournemouth over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Bournemouth

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bournemouth 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Appium
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) git-flow
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) NUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) SOLID
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) ISEB
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker