Test Automation Jobs in Chelmsford

Automated Testing
Essex > Chelmsford

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Chelmsford 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 23 27
Rank change year-on-year +13 +4 -1
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 3 6 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chelmsford 6.52% 4.65% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.82% 5.41% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile - £49,375 -
25th Percentile - £52,500 £39,264
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £39,529
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +39.14% +5.41%
75th Percentile £58,375 £59,375 £39,793
90th Percentile £61,600 £60,000 -
Essex median annual salary £57,750 £36,500 £39,529
% change year-on-year +58.22% -7.66% -20.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Chelmsford

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 Chelmsford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 44 111 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chelmsford 95.65% 86.05% 93.43%
Number of salaries quoted 41 96 54
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £25,150
25th Percentile £46,250 £30,000 £30,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £46,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +1.60% -13.43%
75th Percentile £66,500 £65,000 £52,563
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £65,175
Essex median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Chelmsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Chelmsford

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Chelmsford

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Chelmsford

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chelmsford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
General
1 3 (100.00%) Law
2 2 (66.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) QA Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Head of Development
2 1 (33.33%) Head of Product Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (33.33%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Defect Tracking
2 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft