Test Automation Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Automated Testing
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 56 19
Rank change year-on-year +10 -37 +46
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 14 49 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.76% 3.09% 10.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 3.92% 11.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11 34 24
10th Percentile £42,500 - £42,025
25th Percentile £52,750 £36,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,250 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -24.07% +22.73%
75th Percentile £63,750 £69,725 £86,875
90th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £92,500
East of England median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% -15.38% +26.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 487 1,250 1,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 96.06% 78.86% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 313 936 561
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,885 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,250 £86,250
East of England median annual salary £50,967 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.93% -9.09% +10.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Cambridgeshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Cambridgeshire

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Cambridgeshire

Test Automation
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Cambridge -1 7 £53,000 +8.72% 43
Peterborough +8 1 £80,000 - 2
St Neots - 1 - -
Test Automation
East of England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Solr
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (7.14%) Cloudflare
4 1 (7.14%) dbt
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Big Data
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) JIRA
1 7 (50.00%) Selenium
2 3 (21.43%) GitLab
3 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 2 (14.29%) Maven
3 2 (14.29%) SonarQube
3 2 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (7.14%) CircleCI
4 1 (7.14%) Git
4 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (35.71%) Law
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Legal
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) QA Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Senior QA Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Head of Development
3 2 (14.29%) Head of Product Development
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Integration Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.14%) Test and Integration Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) React
2 3 (21.43%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) CSS
2 3 (21.43%) HTML
2 3 (21.43%) Spring
2 3 (21.43%) Spring Boot
3 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 2 (14.29%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (14.29%) JPA
3 2 (14.29%) Kafka
3 2 (14.29%) Redux
3 2 (14.29%) Web Services
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (7.14%) Django
4 1 (7.14%) Java EE
4 1 (7.14%) JSON
4 1 (7.14%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.14%) Life Science
2 1 (7.14%) Raspberry Pi
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
3 5 (35.71%) Microservices
3 5 (35.71%) SDLC
3 5 (35.71%) Software Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Manual Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Test Scripting
4 4 (28.57%) User Experience
5 3 (21.43%) Defect Tracking
5 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (21.43%) Process Improvement
5 3 (21.43%) Project Management
5 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 4 (28.57%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) C#
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) ISTQB
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Solace
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle