Test Automation Engineer Job Trends in Burgess Hill

Automation Test Engineer
West Sussex > Burgess Hill

The median Automation Test Engineer salary in Burgess Hill is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Burgess Hill 3.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
75th Percentile £67,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Sussex median annual salary £65,000 £47,500 £48,250
% change year-on-year +36.84% -1.55% +23.72%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Burgess Hill

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Burgess Hill. 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 Burgess Hill with a recognized job title 20 45 16
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 62.50% 95.74% 88.89%
Number of salaries quoted 16 38 10
10th Percentile £51,875 £66,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £60,000 - £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +154.55% -49.07%
75th Percentile £70,625 £71,875 £51,250
90th Percentile £73,125 £77,875 £61,000
West Sussex median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% -4.35%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Burgess Hill

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Test Automation Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Burgess Hill.

Test Automation Engineer job vacancy trend in Burgess Hill

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in Burgess Hill

Salary distribution trend for Test Automation Engineer job vacancies in Burgess Hill.

Salary distribution trend for Test Automation Engineer job vacancies in Burgess Hill

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Burgess Hill

For the 6 months to 1 October 2025, Test Automation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Burgess Hill region featuring Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Advertising
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) International Banking
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) WebdriverIO
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Burgess Hill by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Advertising
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) WebdriverIO
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA