Test Automation Jobs in Central London

Automated Testing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 86 68
Rank change year-on-year +12 -18 -32
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 86 116 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 3.62% 3.05% 3.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.74% 3.33% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 75 79 170
10th Percentile £53,350 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,875 £63,750 £61,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -8.82% +21.43%
75th Percentile £103,750 £95,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £119,500 £111,000 £111,250
London median annual salary £73,875 £70,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year +5.54% -5.41% +5.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,298 3,487 4,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.72% 91.57% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,589 2,599 3,837
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Central London

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Central London

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Central London over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Central London

Test Automation
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 within the Central London region over the 6 months to 13 June 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 +7 77 £85,000 +9.68% 161
Camden - 4 - - 2
City of Westminster -13 2 - - 2
Test Automation
London

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (2.33%) Liferay
2 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (16.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.16%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 43 (50.00%) Azure
2 21 (24.42%) AWS
2 21 (24.42%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (17.44%) Dynamics 365
4 12 (13.95%) GCP
5 11 (12.79%) GitHub
6 9 (10.47%) Entra ID
6 9 (10.47%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (9.30%) Datadog
7 8 (9.30%) Serverless
8 6 (6.98%) Google Workspace
8 6 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (5.81%) PaaS
9 5 (5.81%) Power Platform
9 5 (5.81%) Snowflake
10 4 (4.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (2.33%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (2.33%) Power Automate
11 2 (2.33%) PowerApps
11 2 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.98%) SSL
1 6 (6.98%) VLAN
1 6 (6.98%) Wireless
2 4 (4.65%) VPN
3 3 (3.49%) HTTP
4 1 (1.16%) Firewall
4 1 (1.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (10.47%) MongoDB
2 9 (10.47%) NoSQL
2 9 (10.47%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.98%) MySQL
4 5 (5.81%) Data Vault
4 5 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.81%) Power BI
4 5 (5.81%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (2.33%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (6.98%) Git
2 5 (5.81%) Gradle
3 4 (4.65%) Appium
3 4 (4.65%) Maven
3 4 (4.65%) Selenium
3 4 (4.65%) XCUITest
4 3 (3.49%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.49%) JIRA
5 2 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (2.33%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.33%) Xcode
6 1 (1.16%) GitLab
6 1 (1.16%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (1.16%) NeoLoad
6 1 (1.16%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.16%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.16%) TeamCity
General
1 29 (33.72%) Finance
2 22 (25.58%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.12%) Back Office
4 8 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.65%) Banking
5 4 (4.65%) Games
6 3 (3.49%) Legal
6 3 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.33%) Front Office
7 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.16%) Law
8 1 (1.16%) Marketing
8 1 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (38.37%) Developer
2 19 (22.09%) Senior
3 14 (16.28%) Development Manager
4 12 (13.95%) Senior Developer
5 11 (12.79%) Application Development Manager
5 11 (12.79%) Applications Development Manager
5 11 (12.79%) Applications Manager
6 9 (10.47%) Lead
7 8 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Applications Support
8 7 (8.14%) Applications Support Manager
8 7 (8.14%) Support Manager
9 6 (6.98%) Software Developer
10 5 (5.81%) Lead Developer
10 5 (5.81%) Node.js Developer
10 5 (5.81%) Software Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) QA Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (23.26%) .NET
2 15 (17.44%) .NET Framework
3 12 (13.95%) RESTful
4 8 (9.30%) React
4 8 (9.30%) REST
5 7 (8.14%) Node.js
5 7 (8.14%) Web Services
6 6 (6.98%) JSON
7 5 (5.81%) CSS
7 5 (5.81%) Express.js
7 5 (5.81%) GraphQL
7 5 (5.81%) HTML
7 5 (5.81%) Kafka
7 5 (5.81%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (5.81%) WebSockets
8 4 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (4.65%) SOAP
8 4 (4.65%) Spring
9 2 (2.33%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.79%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.81%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.65%) Mobile Games
4 3 (3.49%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.33%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.16%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.16%) Derivative
6 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.16%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.16%) Equities
6 1 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.16%) PropTech
6 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.81%) Linux
2 4 (4.65%) Apple iOS
2 4 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.33%) Windows
4 1 (1.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (58.14%) DevOps
2 48 (55.81%) CI/CD
3 45 (52.33%) Agile
4 24 (27.91%) Scrum
5 21 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (19.77%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (18.60%) Front End Development
8 15 (17.44%) Cost Management
8 15 (17.44%) CRM
8 15 (17.44%) Software Engineering
9 14 (16.28%) Case Management
9 14 (16.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (15.12%) Data Integration
10 13 (15.12%) Data Management
10 13 (15.12%) Resource Management
10 13 (15.12%) Software Testing
11 12 (13.95%) Migration
12 11 (12.79%) Microservices
13 10 (11.63%) Computer Science
13 10 (11.63%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 32 (37.21%) SQL
2 20 (23.26%) Java
3 19 (22.09%) Python
4 18 (20.93%) C#
5 12 (13.95%) JavaScript
6 10 (11.63%) TypeScript
7 7 (8.14%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.65%) Swift
9 2 (2.33%) C++
9 2 (2.33%) PHP
9 2 (2.33%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.16%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.16%) C
10 1 (1.16%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 18 (20.93%) Degree
2 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.65%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (3.49%) ACCA
4 3 (3.49%) CIMA
4 3 (3.49%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.16%) ISEB
5 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.79%) QA
2 2 (2.33%) GDPR
2 2 (2.33%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.16%) ITGC
3 1 (1.16%) MiFID
3 1 (1.16%) NIST
3 1 (1.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 13 (15.12%) Docker
2 9 (10.47%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.65%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (17.44%) Terraform
2 12 (13.95%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.98%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (6.98%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (4.65%) Argo
4 4 (4.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (15.12%) Microsoft
1 13 (15.12%) Siebel
2 10 (11.63%) Google
3 8 (9.30%) Guidewire
4 6 (6.98%) Cisco
4 6 (6.98%) Meraki
5 4 (4.65%) Citrix
5 4 (4.65%) New Relic
5 4 (4.65%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.65%) VMware
6 3 (3.49%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.33%) Databricks
8 1 (1.16%) Oracle
8 1 (1.16%) Salesforce