QA Automation Engineer Job Trends in Dorset

Automation QA Engineer
South West > Dorset

As of 5 December 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Automation QA Engineer salary in Dorset.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 0.21% - 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% - 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £40,000
75th Percentile - - £42,500
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary - £66,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +47.22% -18.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Dorset

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Dorset. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Dorset with a recognized job title 461 492 315
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.44% 97.04% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 338 318 281
10th Percentile £27,707 £33,577 £35,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £59,750 £60,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £77,500
South West median annual salary £47,500 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.86% -2.86% +5.00%

QA Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'QA Automation Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

QA Automation Engineer job vacancy trend in Dorset

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for QA Automation Engineer job vacancies in Dorset.

Salary distribution trend for QA Automation Engineer job vacancies in Dorset

QA Automation Engineer
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation Engineer within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 5 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bournemouth - 1 - - 1
QA Automation Engineer
South West

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset

For the 6 months to 5 December 2025, QA Automation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Dorset region featuring QA Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CockroachDB
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk