Test Automation Job Trends in Cambridge

Automated Testing
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 38 57
Rank change year-on-year +2 +19 -41
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 15 19 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 2.96% 4.09% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 4.73% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 14 10 4
10th Percentile - £51,000 £36,875
25th Percentile - £52,500 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -19.23%
75th Percentile £64,375 £75,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,250 £81,750 £67,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -23.08%

All Process & 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 407 402 435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 80.28% 86.45% 89.69%
Number of salaries quoted 278 193 288
10th Percentile £29,600 £38,750 £28,642
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Cambridge over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Cambridge

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (13.33%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (6.67%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) Selenium
3 2 (13.33%) JMeter
3 2 (13.33%) MSTest
3 2 (13.33%) NUnit
3 2 (13.33%) Postman
3 2 (13.33%) SpecFlow
3 2 (13.33%) TestNG
4 1 (6.67%) GitLab
4 1 (6.67%) LabVIEW
4 1 (6.67%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (13.33%) Electronics
2 1 (6.67%) Advertising
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Test Engineer
2 11 (73.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 9 (60.00%) Senior
4 7 (46.67%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 7 (46.67%) Senior Test Engineer
5 6 (40.00%) Python Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Development Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Embedded Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
7 1 (6.67%) QA Automation Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) QA Test Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Test Automation Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) RESTful
2 2 (13.33%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) Playwright
2 2 (13.33%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
3 1 (6.67%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) API Testing
2 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Security Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) BDD
5 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
5 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Exploratory Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Manual Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) SDET
5 2 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (6.67%) API Management
6 1 (6.67%) LLM
6 1 (6.67%) Prompt Engineering
6 1 (6.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) C++
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) MATLAB
4 1 (6.67%) Rust
4 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (53.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) EU AI Act
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Foundry
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft