Test Automation Jobs in Cheltenham

Automated Testing
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 55 39
Rank change year-on-year +35 -16 +4
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 6 14 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 6.67% 3.34% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.32% 3.56% 5.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5 10 15
10th Percentile £52,750 £42,875 £41,950
25th Percentile £66,250 £49,688 £43,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £56,250 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.89% +1.35% +11.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £71,625
90th Percentile £98,000 - £73,050
Gloucestershire median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +20.37% -1.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 82 393 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 91.11% 93.79% 97.33%
Number of salaries quoted 50 289 206
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £34,625
25th Percentile £48,125 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +33.21%
75th Percentile £78,125 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,750 £82,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.20% -9.09% +10.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Cheltenham

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Cheltenham

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Cheltenham

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (33.33%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (33.33%) React
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Android Development
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 2 (33.33%) Open Source
3 2 (33.33%) RAD
3 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (33.33%) Go
3 2 (33.33%) Kotlin
4 1 (16.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) IBM