Test Automation Job Trends in the East of England

Automated Testing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 100 119
Rank change year-on-year -34 +19 -78
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 63 85 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.91% 2.46% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 2.78% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 33 51 46
10th Percentile £42,025 £34,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +16.92% -22.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £73,250 £61,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,150 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.93% +5.25% -7.69%

All Process & 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 4,905 3,060 3,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.63% 88.49% 74.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,479 1,657 2,486
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,533 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £89,600 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.41%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in the East of England

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Test Automation

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 1 August 2026.

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 1 August 2026. 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
Hertfordshire -10 25 £55,000 -18.52% 19
Cambridgeshire -17 20 £62,500 +6.84% 25
Essex -23 7 £51,250 -3.30% 4
Norfolk -33 6 £47,500 +24.18% 4
Suffolk +19 3 £77,500 +19.23% 3
Bedfordshire -23 2 - - 5
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.59%) CMS
1 1 (1.59%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (3.17%) Towers Watson Igloo
3 1 (1.59%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.63%) Azure
2 8 (12.70%) Power Platform
3 7 (11.11%) AWS
3 7 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (11.11%) GCP
4 5 (7.94%) GitHub
5 4 (6.35%) Azure Event Grid
5 4 (6.35%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (6.35%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (6.35%) SaaS
6 3 (4.76%) Google Analytics
6 3 (4.76%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.17%) Apigee
7 2 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.94%) Broadband
2 3 (4.76%) SMS
3 2 (3.17%) Bluetooth
4 1 (1.59%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (1.59%) Network Security
4 1 (1.59%) NFC
4 1 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.59%) Wireless
4 1 (1.59%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) BigQuery
1 4 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (6.35%) Power BI
1 4 (6.35%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (4.76%) Semantic Layer
3 2 (3.17%) MySQL
4 1 (1.59%) Airbyte
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.59%) Metadata
4 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.59%) Power Query
4 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.59%) SQLite
4 1 (1.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (19.05%) Selenium
2 9 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 7 (11.11%) Cypress.io
4 5 (7.94%) Git
4 5 (7.94%) JIRA
5 4 (6.35%) LabVIEW
6 3 (4.76%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (3.17%) Ranorex
7 2 (3.17%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.59%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (1.59%) Claude Code
8 1 (1.59%) GitLab
8 1 (1.59%) JMeter
8 1 (1.59%) Postman
8 1 (1.59%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.59%) SpecFlow
General
1 17 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.05%) Manufacturing
3 11 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.70%) Finance
4 8 (12.70%) Marketing
5 7 (11.11%) Electronics
5 7 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (7.94%) Law
6 5 (7.94%) Retail
7 4 (6.35%) Advertising
7 4 (6.35%) Aerospace
7 4 (6.35%) Automotive
8 3 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
9 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.59%) Games
10 1 (1.59%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 16 (25.40%) Lead
2 15 (23.81%) Senior
3 12 (19.05%) Software Engineer
4 10 (15.87%) Developer
5 8 (12.70%) Architect
5 8 (12.70%) Test Leader
6 6 (9.52%) Lead Software Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Test Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Dynamics 365 Architect
8 4 (6.35%) QA Leader
8 4 (6.35%) Senior Developer
8 4 (6.35%) Supply Chain Architect
9 3 (4.76%) Analyst
9 3 (4.76%) Embedded Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) QA Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Software Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Test Analyst
10 2 (3.17%) QA Test Analyst
10 2 (3.17%) RF Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.29%) Playwright
2 5 (7.94%) Node.js
3 4 (6.35%) Django
4 3 (4.76%) CSS
4 3 (4.76%) Flask
4 3 (4.76%) React
4 3 (4.76%) WPF
5 2 (3.17%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.17%) HTML
5 2 (3.17%) Middleware
5 2 (3.17%) NestJS
5 2 (3.17%) Next.js
5 2 (3.17%) pytest
5 2 (3.17%) REST
6 1 (1.59%) .NET
6 1 (1.59%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.59%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.59%) RESTful
6 1 (1.59%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.94%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.35%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.76%) IoT
5 3 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.59%) Analogue Electronics
7 1 (1.59%) ARM Cortex
7 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.59%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.59%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.59%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.35%) Linux
2 3 (4.76%) Windows
3 2 (3.17%) VxWorks
4 1 (1.59%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 27 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (39.68%) Agile
4 24 (38.10%) Software Engineering
5 20 (31.75%) Mentoring
6 18 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (26.98%) DevOps
8 15 (23.81%) Software Testing
9 13 (20.63%) AI
9 13 (20.63%) Roadmaps
9 13 (20.63%) SDLC
10 10 (15.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (15.87%) Validation
11 9 (14.29%) Analytics
11 9 (14.29%) Manual Testing
11 9 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
11 9 (14.29%) Regression Testing
11 9 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (12.70%) Code Quality
12 8 (12.70%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.16%) Python
2 10 (15.87%) C++
2 10 (15.87%) SQL
3 9 (14.29%) C
3 9 (14.29%) C#
4 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.76%) Embedded C
5 3 (4.76%) Embedded C++
5 3 (4.76%) Java
5 3 (4.76%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.17%) Ada
6 2 (3.17%) MATLAB
6 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.59%) Bash
7 1 (1.59%) Bicep
7 1 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.59%) Go
7 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (30.16%) Degree
2 5 (7.94%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.35%) DBS Check
4 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.76%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.59%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.59%) ISEB
6 1 (1.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (30.16%) QA
2 9 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.76%) Automotive SPICE
3 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.76%) GDPR
3 3 (4.76%) PERC
4 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (1.59%) ISO 26262
5 1 (1.59%) JTAG
5 1 (1.59%) MISRA
5 1 (1.59%) MISRA C
System Software
1 8 (12.70%) Firmware
2 4 (6.35%) Docker
3 3 (4.76%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (9.52%) Terraform
2 4 (6.35%) Ansible
3 3 (4.76%) Functional Safety
3 3 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.59%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.52%) Google
3 4 (6.35%) Oracle
4 3 (4.76%) dotdigital
4 3 (4.76%) Informatica
4 3 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (3.17%) Pega
6 1 (1.59%) DevExpress
6 1 (1.59%) New Relic
6 1 (1.59%) Telerik