Test Automation Jobs in the East of England

Automated Testing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 121 35
Rank change year-on-year +14 -86 +19
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 79 111 384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 2.34% 1.80% 7.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 2.25% 7.82%
Number of salaries quoted 44 82 78
10th Percentile £37,875 £32,150 £39,035
25th Percentile £53,000 £36,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +26.21%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £69,890 £94,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,178 4,935 4,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 94.16% 79.89% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,461 3,706 2,148
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,809 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,206 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £81,975
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the East of England

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in the East of England.

Salary trend for Test Automation in the East of England

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the East of England over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the East of England

Test Automation
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the East of England region over the 6 months to 21 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
Bedfordshire +12 25 £68,750 +29.11% 7
Cambridgeshire +9 14 £55,000 +7.32% 48
Hertfordshire +16 13 £60,000 +4.35% 19
Norfolk +26 11 £50,250 +66.12% 12
Essex +6 11 £53,000 +42.28% 22
Suffolk -16 5 £53,000 +11.58% 5
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 13 (16.46%) Confluence
2 3 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.53%) Appian
4 1 (1.27%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.27%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 27 (34.18%) Azure
2 23 (29.11%) AWS
3 13 (16.46%) GCP
4 10 (12.66%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (8.86%) Azure Logic Apps
5 7 (8.86%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (8.86%) Power Automate
6 5 (6.33%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.80%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.80%) Serverless
8 2 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.53%) GitHub
8 2 (2.53%) MinIO
8 2 (2.53%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.27%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.27%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.27%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.99%) TCP/IP
1 15 (18.99%) VPN
2 1 (1.27%) GSM
2 1 (1.27%) LTE
2 1 (1.27%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.27%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (1.27%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.25%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.06%) Big Data
3 2 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.53%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.53%) MySQL
3 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.27%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.27%) OLTP
4 1 (1.27%) Power BI
4 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (37.97%) Cucumber
2 29 (36.71%) Selenium
3 26 (32.91%) JIRA
4 18 (22.78%) GitLab
5 17 (21.52%) Robot Framework
5 17 (21.52%) Sonatype Nexus
6 15 (18.99%) Bitbucket
6 15 (18.99%) Maven
6 15 (18.99%) SonarQube
7 4 (5.06%) CppUnit
7 4 (5.06%) Cypress.io
7 4 (5.06%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (3.80%) Git
9 2 (2.53%) Artifactory
9 2 (2.53%) Snyk
9 2 (2.53%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.27%) CircleCI
10 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
10 1 (1.27%) JMeter
10 1 (1.27%) Postman
General
1 34 (43.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 24 (30.38%) Social Skills
3 18 (22.78%) Banking
4 16 (20.25%) Finance
4 16 (20.25%) Law
5 15 (18.99%) Telecoms
6 9 (11.39%) Legal
7 4 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.80%) Electronics
8 3 (3.80%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.53%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.53%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.53%) Retail
10 1 (1.27%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.27%) Automotive
10 1 (1.27%) Games
10 1 (1.27%) Marketing
10 1 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 21 (26.58%) Software Engineer
2 19 (24.05%) Senior
2 19 (24.05%) Test Engineer
3 16 (20.25%) Test Automation Engineer
4 11 (13.92%) QA Engineer
5 9 (11.39%) Senior QA Engineer
6 7 (8.86%) Head of Development
6 7 (8.86%) Head of Product Development
7 5 (6.33%) Embedded Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Software Verification Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Verification Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Developer
10 2 (2.53%) Applications Architect
10 2 (2.53%) Architect
10 2 (2.53%) Development Engineer
10 2 (2.53%) Senior Developer
10 2 (2.53%) Senior Development Engineer
10 2 (2.53%) Senior Test Engineer
10 2 (2.53%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (30.38%) React
2 20 (25.32%) Kafka
3 16 (20.25%) CSS
3 16 (20.25%) HTML
3 16 (20.25%) Spring
3 16 (20.25%) Spring Boot
4 15 (18.99%) JPA
4 15 (18.99%) Redux
5 13 (16.46%) Hibernate
6 9 (11.39%) .NET
7 7 (8.86%) HTML5 Canvas
8 5 (6.33%) RESTful
9 3 (3.80%) REST
10 2 (2.53%) .NET Framework
10 2 (2.53%) CSS3
10 2 (2.53%) gRPC
10 2 (2.53%) HTML5
10 2 (2.53%) Node.js
10 2 (2.53%) Sass
10 2 (2.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.25%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (18.99%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (18.99%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.53%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.53%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.53%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.53%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.53%) Replication
5 1 (1.27%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.27%) FPGA
5 1 (1.27%) Life Science
5 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.27%) Online Games
5 1 (1.27%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (1.27%) SCADA
5 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (25.32%) Linux
2 16 (20.25%) Windows
3 2 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (58.23%) DevOps
2 42 (53.16%) Agile
3 39 (49.37%) CI/CD
4 30 (37.97%) Software Engineering
5 29 (36.71%) Microservices
6 25 (31.65%) SDLC
7 23 (29.11%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (26.58%) Containerisation
9 18 (22.78%) Mentoring
10 17 (21.52%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (21.52%) Software Testing
10 17 (21.52%) System Testing
11 15 (18.99%) Coaching
11 15 (18.99%) Front End Development
11 15 (18.99%) Performance Optimisation
11 15 (18.99%) TDD
11 15 (18.99%) Test Management
12 14 (17.72%) Clean Code
13 13 (16.46%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (15.19%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 42 (53.16%) JavaScript
2 28 (35.44%) Python
3 23 (29.11%) Java
4 18 (22.78%) Bash
5 16 (20.25%) PowerShell
6 15 (18.99%) SQL
7 11 (13.92%) C#
8 7 (8.86%) C++
9 5 (6.33%) C
9 5 (6.33%) TypeScript
10 4 (5.06%) Rust
11 1 (1.27%) PHP
11 1 (1.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (29.11%) Degree
2 10 (12.66%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.80%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.53%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (54.43%) QA
2 4 (5.06%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (26.58%) Docker
2 2 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (26.58%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.59%) Terraform
3 4 (5.06%) Ansible
4 2 (2.53%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (18.99%) Solace
2 8 (10.13%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.53%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (2.53%) Black Duck
3 2 (2.53%) UiPath
3 2 (2.53%) VMware
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle