Test Automation Jobs in Dorset

Automated Testing
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Dorset requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 63 60
Rank change year-on-year +10 -3 -38
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 9 39 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 2.12% 3.17% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 3.72% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8 17 8
10th Percentile £41,875 - £46,900
25th Percentile £43,750 £31,250 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -7.08% +13.00%
75th Percentile £58,000 £53,750 £60,938
90th Percentile £61,225 £65,000 £65,625
South West median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 397 1,049 635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 93.41% 85.15% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 152 595 329
10th Percentile £28,800 £30,000 £31,850
25th Percentile £37,188 £36,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £62,950 £66,250 £76,250
South West median annual salary £52,500 £50,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +3.96% -6.48% +8.00%

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 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
Poole +9 4 £47,500 -9.52% 3
Bournemouth +39 2 £51,250 -14.58% 9
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) MySQL
1 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) git-flow
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Locust
2 1 (11.11%) NUnit
2 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Software Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Java Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) QA Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Software Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Kafka
1 4 (44.44%) Spring Boot
2 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
2 1 (11.11%) Playwright
2 1 (11.11%) pytest
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Software Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) Scrum
4 4 (44.44%) Code Quality
4 4 (44.44%) Microservices
5 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
6 2 (22.22%) Mathematics
6 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
7 1 (11.11%) API Testing
7 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (11.11%) BDD
7 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
7 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
7 1 (11.11%) Manual Testing
7 1 (11.11%) SOLID
7 1 (11.11%) TDD
7 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
7 1 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) Rust
4 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
2 1 (11.11%) ISEB
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Databricks