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

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 50 37
Rank change year-on-year +32 -13 +5
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 6 15 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 6.59% 3.90% 5.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.23% 4.19% 5.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 17
10th Percentile £52,750 £36,250 £42,300
25th Percentile £66,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £55,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +54.55% -0.90% +11.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £98,000 - £72,700
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 83 358 311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 91.21% 92.99% 97.49%
Number of salaries quoted 49 281 206
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £34,625
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £78,750 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £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 18 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (16.67%) boto
1 1 (16.67%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Android Development
4 1 (16.67%) Blue-Green Deployment
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Open Source
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) RAD
4 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
4 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) DV Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) IBM