Test Automation Jobs in Dorset

Automated Testing
South West > Dorset

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 58 64 23
Rank change year-on-year +6 -41 +44
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 40 19 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 3.55% 2.69% 11.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.13% 2.79% 12.31%
Number of salaries quoted 18 9 45
10th Percentile - £40,000 £40,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £47,501 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £92,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +3.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 969 680 723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 86.06% 96.18% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 568 359 565
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,260 £38,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,750 £59,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £74,500
South West median annual salary £50,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +7.53%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Dorset

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Dorset

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Dorset

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Dorset

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

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Dorset

Test Automation
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 -22 21 £60,000 +7.14% 2
Poole +21 8 £52,500 -12.50% 1
Ferndown - 7 £32,500 -
Weymouth -14 2 - -
Test Automation
South West

Test Automation
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (17.50%) Apache
2 6 (15.00%) SAS
3 2 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (35.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) AWS
2 6 (15.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (37.50%) MySQL
2 8 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 6 (15.00%) Power BI
3 6 (15.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (30.00%) Cucumber
1 12 (30.00%) Selenium
2 10 (25.00%) TeamCity
3 7 (17.50%) Subversion
4 4 (10.00%) JIRA
4 4 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (5.00%) GitLab
5 2 (5.00%) Postman
6 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 22 (55.00%) Finance
2 18 (45.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 18 (45.00%) Law
3 10 (25.00%) Banking
3 10 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 10 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 8 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (15.00%) Legal
6 2 (5.00%) Electronics
6 2 (5.00%) Games
6 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 8 (20.00%) Developer
2 8 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 8 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) PHP Developer
3 7 (17.50%) PHP Web Developer
3 7 (17.50%) Senior
3 7 (17.50%) Web Developer
4 6 (15.00%) Analytics Manager
4 6 (15.00%) Data Analytics Manager
4 6 (15.00%) Testing Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.00%) QA Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Software QA Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Systems Test Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Technical Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Technical Project Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Programme Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) Gherkin
2 8 (20.00%) Kafka
2 8 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 7 (17.50%) CSS
3 7 (17.50%) HTML
3 7 (17.50%) jQuery
3 7 (17.50%) LAMP
3 7 (17.50%) SVG
4 2 (5.00%) .NET
4 2 (5.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.00%) JSON
4 2 (5.00%) REST
4 2 (5.00%) Swagger
5 1 (2.50%) Playwright
5 1 (2.50%) RESTful
5 1 (2.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Animation
1 7 (17.50%) Onboarding
1 7 (17.50%) Video Editing
2 6 (15.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (15.00%) Credit Risk
2 6 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 6 (15.00%) Market Risk
3 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) Agile
2 22 (55.00%) Scrum
3 18 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (30.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 12 (30.00%) Test Scripting
4 12 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 10 (25.00%) Change Management
5 10 (25.00%) Coaching
5 10 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
5 10 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 10 (25.00%) Process Improvement
5 10 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 10 (25.00%) TDD
5 10 (25.00%) Time Management
5 10 (25.00%) User Stories
6 8 (20.00%) Defect Management
6 8 (20.00%) Microservices
6 8 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 8 (20.00%) Test Management
6 8 (20.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 22 (55.00%) Java
2 15 (37.50%) Python
3 8 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (17.50%) Kotlin
4 7 (17.50%) PHP
5 6 (15.00%) R
6 2 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (45.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) HNC
2 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (27.50%) QA
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 25 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) Alteryx
2 6 (15.00%) Pega
2 6 (15.00%) UiPath