Test Automation Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Automated Testing
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 56 89 75
Rank change year-on-year +33 -14 -21
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 39 42 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 3.62% 2.15% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 2.48% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 7 17 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% +2.15% -24.08%
75th Percentile £66,000 £53,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £69,200 £65,250 £68,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,035 1,691 1,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 96.01% 86.72% 91.95%
Number of salaries quoted 359 1,012 685
10th Percentile £24,750 £28,525 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £66,201 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,000 £75,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £56,673 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.35% -9.09% -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Buckinghamshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Buckinghamshire

Test Automation
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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 +14 6 £60,500 +27.37% 8
Marlow - 4 £60,000 - 1
Bletchley - 4 £70,000 - 1
Buckingham -5 2 - - 1
Princes Risborough - 2 - -
Newport Pagnell - 1 - -
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) AWS
1 5 (12.82%) Azure
2 4 (10.26%) GCP
3 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.56%) GitHub
3 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (64.10%) TCP/IP
1 25 (64.10%) VPN
2 1 (2.56%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (74.36%) Cucumber
2 25 (64.10%) Robot Framework
3 8 (20.51%) JIRA
4 5 (12.82%) Git
5 4 (10.26%) Bitbucket
5 4 (10.26%) GitLab
5 4 (10.26%) Maven
5 4 (10.26%) Selenium
5 4 (10.26%) SonarQube
5 4 (10.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (10.26%) Subversion
General
1 32 (82.05%) Social Skills
2 30 (76.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (64.10%) Telecoms
4 5 (12.82%) Aerospace
4 5 (12.82%) Electronics
5 4 (10.26%) Aviation
5 4 (10.26%) Banking
5 4 (10.26%) Finance
5 4 (10.26%) Manufacturing
6 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Games
7 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (69.23%) Test Engineer
2 25 (64.10%) Test Automation Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Electronics Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Senior
3 4 (10.26%) Senior Electronics Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Analyst
4 2 (5.13%) Test Analyst
4 2 (5.13%) Test Manager
5 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Communications Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Lead Test Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) QA Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) QA Leader
5 1 (2.56%) QA Manager
5 1 (2.56%) QA Test Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) QA Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) CSS
1 4 (10.26%) Hibernate
1 4 (10.26%) HTML
1 4 (10.26%) JPA
1 4 (10.26%) Kafka
1 4 (10.26%) React
1 4 (10.26%) Redux
1 4 (10.26%) Spring
1 4 (10.26%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (10.26%) CPLD
2 4 (10.26%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (10.26%) FPGA
2 4 (10.26%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.56%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.56%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 27 (69.23%) Linux
2 26 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (84.62%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (79.49%) DevOps
3 26 (66.67%) Coaching
3 26 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 26 (66.67%) Test Management
4 25 (64.10%) System Testing
5 8 (20.51%) SDLC
6 6 (15.38%) Agile
7 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
7 5 (12.82%) Validation
8 4 (10.26%) Clean Code
8 4 (10.26%) Containerisation
8 4 (10.26%) Customer Requirements
8 4 (10.26%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (10.26%) Issue Tracking
8 4 (10.26%) Project Delivery
8 4 (10.26%) Prototyping
8 4 (10.26%) Schematic Capture
8 4 (10.26%) Systems Thinking
8 4 (10.26%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 29 (74.36%) JavaScript
2 27 (69.23%) Python
3 26 (66.67%) Bash
3 26 (66.67%) PowerShell
4 6 (15.38%) C#
5 5 (12.82%) Java
6 4 (10.26%) C
6 4 (10.26%) C++
6 4 (10.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (76.92%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Agilent
1 4 (10.26%) Solace