Test Automation Jobs in Croydon

Automated Testing
South London > Croydon

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Croydon with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 24 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 -9
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 29 15 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 13.49% 7.58% 15.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.88% 8.15% 15.89%
Number of salaries quoted 22 5 26
10th Percentile - £69,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £24,000 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £75,000 £61,402
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +22.15% -1.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £72,500
90th Percentile £77,250 - £96,875
South London median annual salary £57,500 £58,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.13% +6.82% -12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Croydon with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 209 184 321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 97.21% 92.93% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 149 113 216
10th Percentile £24,750 £31,050 £40,000
25th Percentile £34,341 £42,469 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £81,786 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,000 £80,000
South London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -16.67%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Croydon

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Croydon

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Croydon

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Croydon

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Croydon over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Croydon

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 9 (31.03%) Apache
2 4 (13.79%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
1 8 (27.59%) Serverless
2 7 (24.14%) AWS
3 4 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (13.79%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) GitHub
4 3 (10.34%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (13.79%) NoSQL
2 4 (13.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (41.38%) Cucumber
1 12 (41.38%) Selenium
2 11 (37.93%) JUnit
2 11 (37.93%) TestNG
3 10 (34.48%) REST Assured
4 9 (31.03%) WebDriver
5 7 (24.14%) Jenkins
6 4 (13.79%) Git
7 3 (10.34%) Bitbucket
7 3 (10.34%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (10.34%) JIRA
7 3 (10.34%) JMeter
7 3 (10.34%) Serenity BDD
7 3 (10.34%) SoapUI
8 1 (3.45%) Maven
8 1 (3.45%) Postman
General
1 18 (62.07%) Public Sector
2 9 (31.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Developer
2 9 (31.03%) Automation Tester
2 9 (31.03%) Tester
3 8 (27.59%) Java Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Java Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) .NET Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Full Stack Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) DevOps Developer
6 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Software Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Automation Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Developer in Test
7 2 (6.90%) Java Software Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Test Automation Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Test Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Java Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (48.28%) REST
2 10 (34.48%) WireMock
3 9 (31.03%) Apache Commons
3 9 (31.03%) Guava
3 9 (31.03%) Java Concurrency
4 7 (24.14%) Web Services
5 4 (13.79%) .NET
5 4 (13.79%) AngularJS
5 4 (13.79%) Apache Camel
5 4 (13.79%) CSS
5 4 (13.79%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (13.79%) JSON
5 4 (13.79%) Node.js
5 4 (13.79%) Spring
5 4 (13.79%) Spring Boot
5 4 (13.79%) XML
6 3 (10.34%) RESTful
6 3 (10.34%) SOAP
7 2 (6.90%) Gherkin
7 2 (6.90%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Legacy Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Wiki
2 3 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) Agile
1 15 (51.72%) Scrum
2 13 (44.83%) BDD
3 12 (41.38%) CI/CD
3 12 (41.38%) Code Quality
4 10 (34.48%) API Testing
4 10 (34.48%) Microservices
5 9 (31.03%) Coaching
5 9 (31.03%) Containerisation
5 9 (31.03%) Design Patterns
5 9 (31.03%) DevOps
5 9 (31.03%) End-to-End Testing
5 9 (31.03%) Mentoring
5 9 (31.03%) Scenario Testing
6 8 (27.59%) Full Stack Development
6 8 (27.59%) Kanban
6 8 (27.59%) Software Testing
7 7 (24.14%) SDET
8 5 (17.24%) Continuous Deployment
8 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 25 (86.21%) Java
2 13 (44.83%) C#
3 11 (37.93%) JavaScript
3 11 (37.93%) SQL
4 9 (31.03%) Python
5 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
6 3 (10.34%) Shell Script
7 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) SC Cleared
1 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) AWS Certification
2 4 (13.79%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 15 (51.72%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (51.72%) Kubernetes
2 6 (20.69%) Ansible
3 4 (13.79%) Terraform
4 1 (3.45%) Consul
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) YouTube
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) WSO2
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle