Test Automation Engineer Job Trends in Cardiff

Automation Test Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

As of 13 September 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Automation Test Engineer salary in Cardiff.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.38% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
South Wales median annual salary - - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 256 602 389
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.34% 96.63% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 174 462 333
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £32,975
25th Percentile £37,628 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,152 £52,991
Median % change year-on-year +7.52% -3.47% +0.94%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £79,563 £75,000
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.20%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings that featured Test Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Engineer in Cardiff

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for Test Automation Engineer job vacancies in Cardiff.

Salary distribution trend for Test Automation Engineer job vacancies in Cardiff

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 13 September 2025, Test Automation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cardiff region featuring Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (100.00%) Component Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Component Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA