QA Automation Engineer Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Automation QA Engineer
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Automation QA Engineer salary in Buckinghamshire is £58,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 111 150
Rank change year-on-year -17 +39 -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 2 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.10% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.16% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £52,375 £48,500 -
25th Percentile £54,063 £50,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% - -
75th Percentile £64,063 £60,000 -
90th Percentile £66,125 £61,500 -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 1,820 1,243 1,869
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 89.88% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,122 728 1,078
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

QA Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Job postings that featured QA Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Engineer in Buckinghamshire

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Automation Engineer in Buckinghamshire.

Salary trend for QA Automation Engineer in Buckinghamshire

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation Engineer in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation Engineer in Buckinghamshire

QA Automation Engineer
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation Engineer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Milton Keynes -4 2 £58,750 -2.08% 1
QA Automation Engineer
South East

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, QA Automation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Buckinghamshire region featuring QA Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Health Technology
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) WireMock
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Mockito
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Mockito
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform