Test Automation Jobs in Cambridge

Automated Testing
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 38 38 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 -24 +41
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 6 45 125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 2.28% 4.50% 13.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 5.45% 13.87%
Number of salaries quoted 6 31 23
10th Percentile £45,000 - £45,000
25th Percentile £52,625 £36,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £42,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.71% -43.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £56,375 £69,450 £92,500
90th Percentile £60,625 £70,000 -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £54,000 £47,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +13.68% -32.14% +27.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 248 826 901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 94.30% 82.52% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 150 628 377
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £31,300
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,750 £87,500 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Cambridge

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Cambridge

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Cambridge

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Cambridge over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Cambridge

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium
2 3 (50.00%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 4 (66.67%) Law
2 3 (50.00%) Legal
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) QA Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Head of Development
3 1 (16.67%) Head of Product Development
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) Django
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Manual Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 3 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 3 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) User Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Product Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft