Test Automation Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Automated Testing
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 37 34
Rank change year-on-year +22 -3 -24
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 4 2 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of Westminster 8.70% 1.42% 5.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.89% 1.61% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.23%
75th Percentile £82,500 - £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £76,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% +11.84% -10.59%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45 124 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 97.83% 87.94% 90.00%
Number of salaries quoted 19 29 88
10th Percentile £64,682 £32,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £71,121 £44,590 £39,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% +25.00% -41.18%
75th Percentile £89,375 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £87,500 £86,250
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the City of Westminster

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

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

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Einstein
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (75.00%) Games
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Python Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Low-Code
1 3 (75.00%) Video\Live Streaming
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) AIOps
2 3 (75.00%) API Design
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Generative AI
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Intelligent Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Runbook
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) API Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Go
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Apex Code
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce