Test Automation Jobs in Bristol

Automated Testing
South West > Bristol

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 41 38
Rank change year-on-year -31 -3 +25
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 95 174 252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 3.07% 6.53% 7.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.46% 6.83% 7.90%
Number of salaries quoted 85 100 191
10th Percentile £39,608 £35,483 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +8.25%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £64,106
90th Percentile £91,934 £77,715 £73,675
South West median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,746 2,549 3,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 88.67% 95.61% 97.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,056 1,512 2,180
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,723 £31,953
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £59,526 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +12.08% +11.81%
75th Percentile £72,433 £74,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +7.53%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Bristol

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Bristol

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Bristol over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Bristol

Test Automation
Job Locations in Bristol

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Bristol region over the 6 months to 27 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
Avonmouth - 1 £65,000 -
Test Automation
South West

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 6 (6.32%) Confluence
2 2 (2.11%) Apache
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.11%) Mule
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (25.26%) Azure
2 18 (18.95%) AWS
3 11 (11.58%) GCP
4 6 (6.32%) GitHub
4 6 (6.32%) npm
5 5 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.16%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.16%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.05%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.05%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.05%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.05%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.05%) SaaS
7 1 (1.05%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (1.05%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) Network Security
1 2 (2.11%) VPN
2 1 (1.05%) Firewall
2 1 (1.05%) LAN
2 1 (1.05%) SAN
2 1 (1.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.63%) NoSQL
2 7 (7.37%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.32%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.21%) Data Lake
4 4 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.16%) Big Data
5 3 (3.16%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 22 (23.16%) Selenium
2 17 (17.89%) Git
3 15 (15.79%) Jenkins
4 11 (11.58%) JIRA
5 8 (8.42%) Cucumber
5 8 (8.42%) Cypress.io
5 8 (8.42%) Maven
6 5 (5.26%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.26%) SpecFlow
6 5 (5.26%) WebDriver
7 4 (4.21%) Moq
7 4 (4.21%) REST Assured
7 4 (4.21%) Storybook
7 4 (4.21%) Zephyr
8 3 (3.16%) xUnit.net
9 2 (2.11%) Appium
9 2 (2.11%) JMeter
9 2 (2.11%) Postman
10 1 (1.05%) JUnit
10 1 (1.05%) Serenity BDD
General
1 37 (38.95%) Finance
2 32 (33.68%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (14.74%) Banking
4 11 (11.58%) Electronics
5 7 (7.37%) Automotive
5 7 (7.37%) Retail
6 5 (5.26%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.11%) Legal
7 2 (2.11%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (37.89%) Developer
2 22 (23.16%) Software Developer
3 21 (22.11%) Lead
4 18 (18.95%) Software Engineer
5 15 (15.79%) Senior
6 9 (9.47%) Senior Developer
7 8 (8.42%) Test Leader
8 7 (7.37%) QA Engineer
8 7 (7.37%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Developer in Test
9 6 (6.32%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) QA Automation Engineer
11 4 (4.21%) Automation Test Lead
11 4 (4.21%) Compiler Engineer
11 4 (4.21%) iOS Developer
11 4 (4.21%) iOS Software Engineer
11 4 (4.21%) QA Leader
11 4 (4.21%) Senior iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.95%) .NET
2 13 (13.68%) Node.js
3 11 (11.58%) React
4 9 (9.47%) RESTful
4 9 (9.47%) Spring
5 7 (7.37%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.26%) Web Services
7 4 (4.21%) JSON
7 4 (4.21%) LLVM
7 4 (4.21%) Playwright
7 4 (4.21%) Redux
7 4 (4.21%) Sass
8 3 (3.16%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.16%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (3.16%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (3.16%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 3 (3.16%) Flutter
8 3 (3.16%) Quarkus
8 3 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (3.16%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.42%) Public Cloud
2 7 (7.37%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.26%) Private Cloud
3 5 (5.26%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.21%) IoT
4 4 (4.21%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.11%) iPhone
7 1 (1.05%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.05%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.05%) Learning Management System
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.05%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (21.05%) Apple iOS
2 13 (13.68%) Windows
3 9 (9.47%) Linux
4 3 (3.16%) Android
5 2 (2.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (50.53%) Agile
2 36 (37.89%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (35.79%) Software Engineering
4 32 (33.68%) DevOps
5 28 (29.47%) Continuous Integration
6 26 (27.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (24.21%) CI/CD
8 18 (18.95%) Line Management
9 17 (17.89%) SDLC
10 15 (15.79%) iOS Development
10 15 (15.79%) Mentoring
11 14 (14.74%) BDD
11 14 (14.74%) Coaching
11 14 (14.74%) Scrum
11 14 (14.74%) Software Testing
12 13 (13.68%) Manual Testing
12 13 (13.68%) User Experience
12 13 (13.68%) UX Design
13 12 (12.63%) Deployment Automation
14 11 (11.58%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 42 (44.21%) Java
2 36 (37.89%) JavaScript
3 23 (24.21%) SQL
4 21 (22.11%) C#
5 13 (13.68%) TypeScript
6 11 (11.58%) Python
7 6 (6.32%) Go
8 5 (5.26%) Bash
9 4 (4.21%) C
9 4 (4.21%) Swift
10 3 (3.16%) C++
10 3 (3.16%) Kotlin
10 3 (3.16%) Rust
10 3 (3.16%) VB.NET
11 1 (1.05%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (13.68%) Degree
2 5 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.05%) ISEB
3 1 (1.05%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.05%) OCP
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (24.21%) QA
2 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.05%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 11 (11.58%) Docker
2 3 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.05%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.47%) Ansible
2 9 (9.47%) Progress Chef
3 7 (7.37%) Terraform
4 5 (5.26%) Argo
4 5 (5.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (11.58%) Xamarin
2 8 (8.42%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.32%) Oracle
4 3 (3.16%) Automation Anywhere
4 3 (3.16%) Blue Prism
4 3 (3.16%) Google
4 3 (3.16%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.16%) UiPath
5 2 (2.11%) Apple
6 1 (1.05%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.05%) Netlify
6 1 (1.05%) Veracode