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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 88 75
Rank change year-on-year +11 -13 -37
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 84 116 199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 3.57% 3.07% 3.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 3.34% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 72 83 174
10th Percentile £51,625 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £103,750 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £114,500 £111,250
London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +7.14%

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 2,273 3,471 4,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.64% 91.83% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,546 2,651 3,984
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 28 May 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 28 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
City of London +4 72 £80,000 - 38
Camden - 5 - - 1
City of Westminster -15 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 (2.38%) Liferay
2 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.19%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 42 (50.00%) Azure
2 21 (25.00%) AWS
3 19 (22.62%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
5 12 (14.29%) GCP
5 12 (14.29%) GitHub
6 10 (11.90%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (9.52%) Entra ID
7 8 (9.52%) Serverless
8 6 (7.14%) Google Workspace
8 6 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (5.95%) Datadog
9 5 (5.95%) Power Platform
9 5 (5.95%) Snowflake
10 4 (4.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (4.76%) PaaS
11 2 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (2.38%) Power Automate
11 2 (2.38%) PowerApps
11 2 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.14%) SSL
1 6 (7.14%) VLAN
1 6 (7.14%) Wireless
2 4 (4.76%) VPN
3 3 (3.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.10%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (11.90%) MongoDB
2 10 (11.90%) NoSQL
3 7 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (8.33%) MySQL
4 6 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.95%) Data Vault
5 5 (5.95%) Power BI
5 5 (5.95%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (2.38%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Git
1 6 (7.14%) Gradle
2 5 (5.95%) Maven
3 4 (4.76%) Appium
3 4 (4.76%) Selenium
3 4 (4.76%) XCUITest
4 3 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.57%) JIRA
4 3 (3.57%) SoapUI
5 2 (2.38%) Postman
5 2 (2.38%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (2.38%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.38%) Xcode
6 1 (1.19%) GitLab
6 1 (1.19%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (1.19%) NeoLoad
6 1 (1.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 26 (30.95%) Finance
2 22 (26.19%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.10%) Back Office
4 8 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.95%) Games
6 3 (3.57%) Banking
6 3 (3.57%) Legal
6 3 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.19%) Front Office
8 1 (1.19%) Law
8 1 (1.19%) Marketing
8 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (36.90%) Developer
2 19 (22.62%) Senior
3 13 (15.48%) Senior Developer
4 11 (13.10%) Development Manager
5 9 (10.71%) Application Development Manager
5 9 (10.71%) Applications Development Manager
5 9 (10.71%) Applications Manager
5 9 (10.71%) Lead
6 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (8.33%) Software Developer
7 5 (5.95%) Applications Support
7 5 (5.95%) Applications Support Manager
7 5 (5.95%) Lead Developer
7 5 (5.95%) Node.js Developer
7 5 (5.95%) Senior Software Developer
7 5 (5.95%) Software Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Support Manager
8 4 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.05%) .NET
2 13 (15.48%) .NET Framework
2 13 (15.48%) RESTful
3 8 (9.52%) React
3 8 (9.52%) REST
4 7 (8.33%) Node.js
4 7 (8.33%) Web Services
5 6 (7.14%) JSON
6 5 (5.95%) CSS
6 5 (5.95%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (5.95%) Express.js
6 5 (5.95%) GraphQL
6 5 (5.95%) HTML
6 5 (5.95%) Kafka
6 5 (5.95%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (5.95%) Spring
6 5 (5.95%) WebSockets
7 4 (4.76%) SOAP
8 2 (2.38%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 6 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.95%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.95%) Mobile Games
4 3 (3.57%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.38%) Equities
5 2 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.38%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.19%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.19%) Derivative
6 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.19%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.19%) FPGA
6 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.19%) PropTech
6 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.95%) Linux
2 4 (4.76%) Apple iOS
2 4 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (55.95%) DevOps
2 44 (52.38%) CI/CD
3 42 (50.00%) Agile
4 22 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (21.43%) Scrum
6 17 (20.24%) Front End Development
7 16 (19.05%) Software Engineering
8 15 (17.86%) Software Testing
9 14 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (15.48%) CRM
10 13 (15.48%) Data Integration
11 12 (14.29%) Case Management
11 12 (14.29%) Cost Management
11 12 (14.29%) Microservices
12 11 (13.10%) Computer Science
12 11 (13.10%) Data Management
12 11 (13.10%) ETL
12 11 (13.10%) Resource Management
12 11 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (11.90%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 31 (36.90%) SQL
2 16 (19.05%) Java
2 16 (19.05%) Python
3 13 (15.48%) C#
4 12 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 10 (11.90%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.76%) Swift
8 3 (3.57%) C++
9 2 (2.38%) PHP
9 2 (2.38%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.19%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.19%) C
10 1 (1.19%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 19 (22.62%) Degree
2 6 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.95%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (3.57%) ACCA
4 3 (3.57%) CIMA
4 3 (3.57%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.19%) ISEB
5 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.86%) QA
2 2 (2.38%) PMO
2 2 (2.38%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.19%) GDPR
3 1 (1.19%) MiFID
3 1 (1.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 14 (16.67%) Docker
2 8 (9.52%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (17.86%) Terraform
2 13 (15.48%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.14%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (5.95%) Argo
4 5 (5.95%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.10%) Google
2 11 (13.10%) Siebel
3 6 (7.14%) Cisco
3 6 (7.14%) Meraki
4 5 (5.95%) Guidewire
4 5 (5.95%) New Relic
5 4 (4.76%) Citrix
5 4 (4.76%) Databricks
5 4 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.76%) VMware
6 3 (3.57%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.19%) Oracle
7 1 (1.19%) Salesforce