Test Automation Jobs in Bristol

Automated Testing
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 79 44
Rank change year-on-year +43 -35 -7
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 80 92 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 6.34% 2.97% 6.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.70% 3.36% 6.81%
Number of salaries quoted 53 82 99
10th Percentile £47,231 £39,412 £35,483
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.20% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £93,778 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £140,677 £87,500 £77,715
South West median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +7.27% +4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,194 2,739 2,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 94.69% 88.33% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 783 2,060 1,506
10th Percentile £31,050 £33,975 £34,723
25th Percentile £47,231 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,000 £59,191
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -2.01% +11.00%
75th Percentile £71,625 £72,433 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,600 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.14% -2.86% +5.00%

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 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Bristol

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 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (41.25%) Azure
2 26 (32.50%) GCP
3 22 (27.50%) AWS
4 13 (16.25%) npm
5 6 (7.50%) GitHub
6 5 (6.25%) Serverless
7 4 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.75%) SaaS
9 2 (2.50%) Akamai
9 2 (2.50%) Apigee
9 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.50%) BrowserStack
9 2 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.50%) Sauce Labs
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.25%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.25%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.50%) NoSQL
2 6 (7.50%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.00%) DynamoDB
3 4 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.50%) Big Data
4 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (38.75%) Git
2 15 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 15 (18.75%) Sonatype Nexus
3 13 (16.25%) Cucumber
3 13 (16.25%) Cypress.io
3 13 (16.25%) webpack
4 12 (15.00%) GitLab
5 4 (5.00%) IBM UrbanCode
5 4 (5.00%) Maven
5 4 (5.00%) Selenium
5 4 (5.00%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.50%) Appium
6 2 (2.50%) Fiddler
6 2 (2.50%) JUnit
6 2 (2.50%) Postman
6 2 (2.50%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.50%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.50%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.25%) JIRA
7 1 (1.25%) SoapUI
General
1 37 (46.25%) Finance
2 30 (37.50%) Banking
3 25 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 13 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.00%) Electronics
6 2 (2.50%) Games
6 2 (2.50%) Legal
7 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 31 (38.75%) Software Engineer
2 19 (23.75%) Lead
3 15 (18.75%) Developer
4 10 (12.50%) Java Engineer
4 10 (12.50%) Lead Java Engineer
5 9 (11.25%) Senior
6 7 (8.75%) Software Developer
7 6 (7.50%) Software Team Leader
7 6 (7.50%) Team Leader
8 5 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) QA Specialist
9 4 (5.00%) Quality Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Design Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Software Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.00%) RESTful
2 17 (21.25%) Spring Boot
3 15 (18.75%) Web Services
4 14 (17.50%) Node.js
5 13 (16.25%) Jest
6 12 (15.00%) React
7 11 (13.75%) .NET
7 11 (13.75%) .NET Core
8 10 (12.50%) .NET Framework
8 10 (12.50%) REST
9 6 (7.50%) AngularJS
9 6 (7.50%) ASP.NET
9 6 (7.50%) Entity Framework
10 5 (6.25%) CSS
10 5 (6.25%) HTML
10 5 (6.25%) JSON
11 4 (5.00%) GraphQL
11 4 (5.00%) PySpark
12 3 (3.75%) Flutter
12 3 (3.75%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.50%) Public Cloud
2 10 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 9 (11.25%) Cloud Native
4 8 (10.00%) Algorithms
4 8 (10.00%) Distributed Applications
4 8 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (10.00%) Product Ownership
5 5 (6.25%) Mobile App
5 5 (6.25%) Reinsurance
6 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.50%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.50%) Replication
6 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.00%) Apple iOS
2 12 (15.00%) Windows
3 3 (3.75%) Android
3 3 (3.75%) Linux
4 2 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (53.75%) Software Engineering
2 38 (47.50%) CI/CD
3 37 (46.25%) Agile
4 30 (37.50%) Microservices
5 25 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (27.50%) Event-Driven
6 22 (27.50%) Mentoring
6 22 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (26.25%) Containerisation
7 21 (26.25%) DevOps
8 19 (23.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 17 (21.25%) Software Testing
10 15 (18.75%) Change Management
10 15 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
11 13 (16.25%) API Design
11 13 (16.25%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (16.25%) Micro Frontends
11 13 (16.25%) Release Automation
12 12 (15.00%) Unit Testing
13 11 (13.75%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 34 (42.50%) Java
2 24 (30.00%) Python
3 21 (26.25%) SQL
4 18 (22.50%) JavaScript
5 13 (16.25%) C++
6 12 (15.00%) TypeScript
7 11 (13.75%) C#
8 7 (8.75%) Bash
9 3 (3.75%) Dart
10 2 (2.50%) Go
10 2 (2.50%) Rust
11 1 (1.25%) C
11 1 (1.25%) Ruby
11 1 (1.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (3.75%) Degree
2 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (32.50%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (21.25%) Kubernetes
2 11 (13.75%) Terraform
3 2 (2.50%) Ansible
3 2 (2.50%) Istio
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (6.25%) Databricks
2 4 (5.00%) F5
2 4 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.50%) Fiserv
3 2 (2.50%) TSYS
4 1 (1.25%) VMware