Test Automation Engineer Job Trends in Central London

Automation Test Engineer
London > Central London

The median Automation Test Engineer salary in Central London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 October 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 188 184
Rank change year-on-year +48 -4 +102
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 1 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.054% 0.063% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.066% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £42,700
25th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £52,500
90th Percentile - - -
London median annual salary £55,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -26.67% +25.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,757 3,013 3,273
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.51% 94.30% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,453 1,981 2,948
10th Percentile £36,750 £43,750 £39,085
25th Percentile £53,750 £54,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £94,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +5.63%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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 Central London.

Test Automation Engineer job vacancy trend in Central London

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for Test Automation Engineer job vacancies in Central London.

Salary distribution trend for Test Automation Engineer job vacancies in Central London

Test Automation Engineer
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
City of London +40 1 £75,000 - 7
Test Automation Engineer
London

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 22 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 Central London region featuring Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) YAML

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python