Test Automation Jobs in Central London

Automated Testing
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 69 38
Rank change year-on-year -17 -31 -9
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 119 229 539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 3.15% 4.29% 6.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.40% 4.52% 7.10%
Number of salaries quoted 85 203 435
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £103,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £114,000 £111,000 £101,250
London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £69,078
% change year-on-year -3.33% +8.57% -1.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,499 5,066 7,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 92.52% 94.82% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,741 4,206 6,382
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,001 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 -13 117 £82,500 +6.45% 17
City of Westminster -8 10 £75,000 -30.23%
West End of London +7 1 £38,000 -64.65% 3
Lambeth - 1 £85,000 -
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 5 (4.20%) Confluence
2 4 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.68%) Moodle
4 1 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.84%) IIS
4 1 (0.84%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.84%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (31.93%) AWS
2 24 (20.17%) Azure
3 17 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (13.45%) SaaS
5 10 (8.40%) Power Platform
6 9 (7.56%) PaaS
7 8 (6.72%) GCP
7 8 (6.72%) Serverless
8 7 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (5.88%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.20%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 5 (4.20%) Snowflake
10 4 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.36%) Azure AKS
10 4 (3.36%) Entra ID
10 4 (3.36%) IaaS
11 3 (2.52%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.36%) DNS
2 1 (0.84%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.08%) MongoDB
2 8 (6.72%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (6.72%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.04%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.20%) Big Data
4 5 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.20%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.36%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.36%) Metadata
5 4 (3.36%) Power BI
5 4 (3.36%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (2.52%) MySQL
7 2 (1.68%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.84%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.84%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.84%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (14.29%) Git
1 17 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 17 (14.29%) JUnit
1 17 (14.29%) Selenium
2 9 (7.56%) JMeter
3 8 (6.72%) JIRA
4 7 (5.88%) Cypress.io
5 5 (4.20%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.20%) Postman
5 5 (4.20%) WebDriver
6 4 (3.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.52%) GitLab
7 3 (2.52%) SoapUI
7 3 (2.52%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.68%) JBehave
8 2 (1.68%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.68%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.84%) Bugzilla
9 1 (0.84%) NUnit
9 1 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 34 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 28 (23.53%) Finance
3 16 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.56%) Law
4 9 (7.56%) Marketing
5 7 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.20%) Banking
7 4 (3.36%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.52%) Billing
9 2 (1.68%) Front Office
9 2 (1.68%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.68%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.84%) Back Office
10 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.84%) Games
10 1 (0.84%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.84%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (31.93%) Lead
2 25 (21.01%) Developer
3 20 (16.81%) Senior
4 8 (6.72%) Data Engineer
4 8 (6.72%) Software Engineer
5 6 (5.04%) JavaScript Developer
5 6 (5.04%) Senior Developer
5 6 (5.04%) Senior JavaScript Developer
6 5 (4.20%) IT Director
6 5 (4.20%) Operations Director
6 5 (4.20%) Services Director
6 5 (4.20%) Tester
7 4 (3.36%) Analyst
7 4 (3.36%) Architect
7 4 (3.36%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (3.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.36%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (3.36%) QA Leader
7 4 (3.36%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (19.33%) JSON
1 23 (19.33%) REST
2 19 (15.97%) .NET
3 15 (12.61%) React
4 12 (10.08%) HTML
5 10 (8.40%) Node.js
6 9 (7.56%) jQuery
7 8 (6.72%) Web Services
8 7 (5.88%) .NET Framework
8 7 (5.88%) Playwright
9 6 (5.04%) Spring
9 6 (5.04%) Spring Boot
10 5 (4.20%) CSS
10 5 (4.20%) RESTful
11 4 (3.36%) Apache Thrift
11 4 (3.36%) ASP.NET
11 4 (3.36%) Kafka
11 4 (3.36%) XML
12 3 (2.52%) Pandas
13 2 (1.68%) Itk
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.20%) CMDB
1 5 (4.20%) Data Structures
2 3 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (2.52%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.68%) Hedge funds
3 2 (1.68%) Learning Management System
3 2 (1.68%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.68%) Reference Data
4 1 (0.84%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.84%) PropTech
4 1 (0.84%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.52%) Linux
1 3 (2.52%) Windows
2 1 (0.84%) Android
2 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (58.82%) Agile
2 33 (27.73%) DevOps
3 30 (25.21%) CI/CD
4 28 (23.53%) SDET
4 28 (23.53%) Test Strategy
5 21 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (17.65%) Software Testing
6 17 (14.29%) OO
6 17 (14.29%) Test Planning
6 17 (14.29%) Unit Testing
7 16 (13.45%) Mentoring
8 14 (11.76%) Computer Science
8 14 (11.76%) Full Stack Development
8 14 (11.76%) ITIL
8 14 (11.76%) Scrum
9 13 (10.92%) Microservices
9 13 (10.92%) Software Engineering
10 12 (10.08%) Code Quality
11 11 (9.24%) Decision-Making
12 10 (8.40%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 36 (30.25%) Java
2 33 (27.73%) JavaScript
3 26 (21.85%) Python
4 21 (17.65%) SQL
5 13 (10.92%) C#
6 9 (7.56%) PHP
7 7 (5.88%) PowerShell
7 7 (5.88%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.36%) C++
8 4 (3.36%) Go
8 4 (3.36%) Scala
9 3 (2.52%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.68%) C
10 2 (1.68%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.84%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.84%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (13.45%) Degree
2 13 (10.92%) Security Cleared
3 12 (10.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.20%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (3.36%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.68%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (1.68%) MCAD
7 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.84%) ISEB
8 1 (0.84%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.84%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.29%) QA
2 6 (5.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.20%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.84%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.84%) ITGC
4 1 (0.84%) SOC 1
4 1 (0.84%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.84%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (10.92%) Terraform
2 10 (8.40%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.52%) Packer
4 1 (0.84%) cPanel
Vendors
1 6 (5.04%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.20%) Automation Anywhere
2 5 (4.20%) Blue Prism
2 5 (4.20%) UiPath
3 4 (3.36%) Google
4 3 (2.52%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.52%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.68%) Oracle
6 1 (0.84%) BEA
6 1 (0.84%) Brio
6 1 (0.84%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.84%) Databricks
6 1 (0.84%) DocuSign
6 1 (0.84%) IBM
6 1 (0.84%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.84%) Solace
6 1 (0.84%) Splunk
6 1 (0.84%) Spotify
6 1 (0.84%) TIBCO