Test Automation Job Trends in the City of London

Automated Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 61 59
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 -11
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 86 115 118
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.73% 4.33% 4.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 4.53% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 72 72 102
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £66,875 £49,375 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -3.03% +17.86%
75th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £110,000
90th Percentile - £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £92,500 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +15.63% -3.03% +17.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,992 2,540 2,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.35% 95.67% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,457 1,620 2,368
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £40,750
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 £113,750 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in the City of London

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the City of London

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.16%) Apache
2 1 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (31.40%) Azure
2 16 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (17.44%) Datadog
4 14 (16.28%) AWS
5 9 (10.47%) GitHub
5 9 (10.47%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (9.30%) SaaS
7 7 (8.14%) Power Platform
8 6 (6.98%) Snowflake
9 5 (5.81%) dbt
9 5 (5.81%) PaaS
10 4 (4.65%) GCP
11 3 (3.49%) Nutanix
12 2 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (2.33%) Serverless
12 2 (2.33%) Tricentis Tosca
13 1 (1.16%) BrowserStack
13 1 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (1.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.16%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.44%) Relational Database
2 6 (6.98%) Power BI
3 5 (5.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.49%) Data Mining
5 3 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.33%) Big Data
6 2 (2.33%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.16%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.16%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.16%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.16%) MySQL
7 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (9.30%) Git
2 5 (5.81%) Cypress.io
3 4 (4.65%) Selenium
4 3 (3.49%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.49%) SpecFlow
5 2 (2.33%) GitLab
6 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.16%) Deequ
6 1 (1.16%) JIRA
6 1 (1.16%) JMeter
6 1 (1.16%) JUnit
6 1 (1.16%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (1.16%) NUnit
6 1 (1.16%) Postman
6 1 (1.16%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.16%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (27.91%) Finance
2 22 (25.58%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.47%) Banking
4 5 (5.81%) Legal
4 5 (5.81%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.65%) International Banking
5 4 (4.65%) Retail
6 3 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.49%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.33%) Advertising
7 2 (2.33%) Front Office
8 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (37.21%) Senior
2 31 (36.05%) Developer
3 14 (16.28%) Lead
4 11 (12.79%) Senior Developer
5 9 (10.47%) Java Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) Python Developer
6 8 (9.30%) Senior Java Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) QA Automation Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) QA Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Tester
8 5 (5.81%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) JavaScript Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) ServiceNow Developer
9 4 (4.65%) Analyst
9 4 (4.65%) Automation Tester
9 4 (4.65%) Operations Analyst
9 4 (4.65%) Security Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (4.65%) Senior Operations Analyst
10 3 (3.49%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.30%) Spring
1 8 (9.30%) Spring Boot
2 7 (8.14%) REST
3 6 (6.98%) Playwright
4 5 (5.81%) .NET
4 5 (5.81%) SOAP
4 5 (5.81%) YAML
5 2 (2.33%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.33%) HTML
5 2 (2.33%) pytest
5 2 (2.33%) React
6 1 (1.16%) Apache Thrift
6 1 (1.16%) Blazor
6 1 (1.16%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.16%) Great Expectations
6 1 (1.16%) Pandas
6 1 (1.16%) PrimeNG
6 1 (1.16%) PySpark
6 1 (1.16%) RxJS
6 1 (1.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.44%) Onboarding
2 10 (11.63%) Cloud Native
3 8 (9.30%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.98%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.65%) Credit Risk
5 4 (4.65%) Market Risk
5 4 (4.65%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.16%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.16%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (56.98%) CI/CD
2 41 (47.67%) DevOps
3 27 (31.40%) Agile
4 23 (26.74%) Mentoring
5 22 (25.58%) Scrum
6 19 (22.09%) Observability
7 16 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (18.60%) Document Management
8 15 (17.44%) Error Analysis
8 15 (17.44%) Migration
8 15 (17.44%) Requirements Gathering
8 15 (17.44%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (12.79%) Analytics
9 11 (12.79%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (11.63%) AI
10 10 (11.63%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (10.47%) Containerisation
11 9 (10.47%) SDLC
12 8 (9.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 8 (9.30%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 39 (45.35%) Python
2 32 (37.21%) Java
3 30 (34.88%) SQL
4 25 (29.07%) C#
5 15 (17.44%) JavaScript
6 12 (13.95%) PowerShell
7 8 (9.30%) Kotlin
8 5 (5.81%) VBA
9 3 (3.49%) Bicep
10 2 (2.33%) Bash
10 2 (2.33%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.16%) C++
11 1 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.16%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (6.98%) Degree
2 4 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (4.65%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.16%) ACCA
3 1 (1.16%) CISA
3 1 (1.16%) ISEB
3 1 (1.16%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.60%) QA
2 7 (8.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (8.14%) NIST
3 4 (4.65%) NCSC
4 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.16%) GDPR
5 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (10.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (11.63%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.81%) Terraform
3 3 (3.49%) Ansible
3 3 (3.49%) Grafana
4 1 (1.16%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.16%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (17.44%) Guidewire
2 6 (6.98%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.81%) Pega
3 5 (5.81%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.65%) Blue Prism
5 3 (3.49%) Commvault
5 3 (3.49%) VMware
6 2 (2.33%) SAP
7 1 (1.16%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.16%) Databricks
7 1 (1.16%) Google
7 1 (1.16%) HP
7 1 (1.16%) Siebel
7 1 (1.16%) Splunk