Test Automation Job Trends in Central London

Automated Testing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 66 56
Rank change year-on-year +17 -10 -9
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 102 126 127
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 4.24% 3.93% 4.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.81% 4.10% 4.36%
Number of salaries quoted 88 79 111
10th Percentile £60,875 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £80,938 £46,875 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.31% -3.03% +17.86%
75th Percentile £110,625 £91,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +7.14%

All Process & 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 2,119 3,072 2,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 88.18% 95.70% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,577 1,869 2,582
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Central London

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Central London over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

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 4 January 2026. 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 +10 85 £87,500 +9.38% 67
Test Automation
London

Test Automation
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.96%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.98%) Apache
2 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (30.39%) AWS
2 27 (26.47%) Azure
3 16 (15.69%) Datadog
4 14 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (7.84%) Power Platform
5 8 (7.84%) SaaS
6 7 (6.86%) GitHub
6 7 (6.86%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (5.88%) PaaS
7 6 (5.88%) Snowflake
8 5 (4.90%) dbt
9 4 (3.92%) GCP
10 3 (2.94%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.96%) Serverless
11 2 (1.96%) Tricentis Tosca
12 1 (0.98%) BrowserStack
12 1 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.98%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.98%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.69%) Relational Database
2 6 (5.88%) Power BI
3 5 (4.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.94%) Data Mining
5 3 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.96%) Big Data
6 2 (1.96%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.96%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.98%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.98%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.98%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.98%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.98%) MySQL
7 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.88%) Git
2 4 (3.92%) Cypress.io
2 4 (3.92%) Selenium
3 3 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.94%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.96%) GitLab
5 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.98%) Deequ
5 1 (0.98%) JIRA
5 1 (0.98%) JMeter
5 1 (0.98%) JUnit
5 1 (0.98%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.98%) NUnit
5 1 (0.98%) Postman
5 1 (0.98%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.98%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (36.27%) Social Skills
2 23 (22.55%) Finance
3 10 (9.80%) Banking
4 6 (5.88%) Legal
5 5 (4.90%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.90%) Retail
6 4 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.92%) International Banking
7 3 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.94%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.96%) Advertising
8 2 (1.96%) Front Office
9 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.98%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (31.37%) Senior
2 31 (30.39%) Lead
3 30 (29.41%) Developer
4 18 (17.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 11 (10.78%) Senior Developer
6 10 (9.80%) Java Engineer
7 8 (7.84%) Senior Java Engineer
8 6 (5.88%) Python Developer
9 5 (4.90%) Security Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) ServiceNow Developer
9 5 (4.90%) Tester
10 4 (3.92%) Analyst
10 4 (3.92%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.92%) JavaScript Engineer
10 4 (3.92%) Operations Analyst
10 4 (3.92%) QA Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.92%) QA Engineer
10 4 (3.92%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.92%) Senior Operations Analyst
10 4 (3.92%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (21.57%) .NET
2 19 (18.63%) React
3 18 (17.65%) Node.js
4 8 (7.84%) Spring
4 8 (7.84%) Spring Boot
5 7 (6.86%) REST
6 6 (5.88%) Playwright
6 6 (5.88%) YAML
7 5 (4.90%) SOAP
8 2 (1.96%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.96%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.96%) HTML
8 2 (1.96%) pytest
9 1 (0.98%) Apache Thrift
9 1 (0.98%) Blazor
9 1 (0.98%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.98%) Great Expectations
9 1 (0.98%) Pandas
9 1 (0.98%) PrimeNG
9 1 (0.98%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 26 (25.49%) Cloud Native
2 16 (15.69%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.88%) Mobile App
3 6 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.90%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.92%) Credit Risk
5 4 (3.92%) Market Risk
6 3 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.98%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.98%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.98%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.98%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.98%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (63.73%) CI/CD
2 43 (42.16%) Agile
3 41 (40.20%) DevOps
4 31 (30.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (26.47%) Technical Leadership
6 25 (24.51%) Full-Stack Development
7 23 (22.55%) Mentoring
7 23 (22.55%) Scrum
8 20 (19.61%) Computer Science
8 20 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (19.61%) Software Testing
9 18 (17.65%) Prototyping
9 18 (17.65%) Software Delivery
9 18 (17.65%) User Experience
10 17 (16.67%) Clean Code
10 17 (16.67%) Document Management
10 17 (16.67%) Observability
11 16 (15.69%) Migration
11 16 (15.69%) Requirements Gathering
11 16 (15.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (49.02%) Java
2 39 (38.24%) Python
3 31 (30.39%) JavaScript
3 31 (30.39%) SQL
4 26 (25.49%) C#
5 19 (18.63%) TypeScript
6 13 (12.75%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.84%) Kotlin
8 5 (4.90%) VBA
9 3 (2.94%) Bicep
10 2 (1.96%) Bash
11 1 (0.98%) C++
11 1 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.98%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 22 (21.57%) Degree
2 4 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (3.92%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.98%) ACCA
3 1 (0.98%) CISA
3 1 (0.98%) ISEB
3 1 (0.98%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.73%) QA
2 8 (7.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (7.84%) NIST
3 5 (4.90%) NCSC
4 2 (1.96%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.98%) GDPR
5 1 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (6.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (9.80%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.88%) Terraform
3 3 (2.94%) Ansible
3 3 (2.94%) Grafana
4 1 (0.98%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.98%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.98%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.98%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (15.69%) Guidewire
2 8 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.90%) Pega
3 5 (4.90%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.92%) Blue Prism
5 3 (2.94%) Commvault
5 3 (2.94%) VMware
6 2 (1.96%) SAP
7 1 (0.98%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.98%) Databricks
7 1 (0.98%) Google
7 1 (0.98%) HP
7 1 (0.98%) Siebel
7 1 (0.98%) Splunk