Test Automation Engineer Jobs in Dorset

Automation Test Engineer
South West > Dorset

As of 22 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Automation Test Engineer salary in Dorset.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 - 73
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 0.23% - 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% - 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +15.79% +5.56%

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 422 1,147 545
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.60% 94.87% 82.95%
Number of salaries quoted 177 677 342
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,030 £32,050
25th Percentile £37,574 £37,000 £38,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £61,162
90th Percentile £63,750 £65,200 £72,500
South West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Job postings that featured Test Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Engineer in Dorset

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in Dorset

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

Salary trend for Test Automation Engineer in Dorset

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Test Automation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Dorset region featuring Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks