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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 63 88
Rank change year-on-year -42 +25 -40
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 71 135 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.13% 3.24% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 4.23% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 51 33 19
10th Percentile £25,250 £35,400 £20,000
25th Percentile £44,375 £46,250 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,000 £74,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%

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 2,863 3,190 2,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 86.03% 76.50% 92.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,574 1,461 1,346
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -0.83% +0.83%

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 19 October 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 19 October 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
Cambridgeshire -3 18 £60,000 +13.65% 25
Essex 0 14 £53,000 -11.67% 5
Hertfordshire +18 12 £70,000 +21.74% 16
Bedfordshire -27 10 - - 4
Norfolk +22 9 £37,500 +36.36% 11
Suffolk -16 8 £65,000 +85.71% 3
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 13 (18.31%) Confluence
2 2 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.82%) Apache Solr
2 2 (2.82%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.82%) Appian
Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.41%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 37 (52.11%) Azure
2 24 (33.80%) AWS
3 19 (26.76%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (21.13%) GCP
5 12 (16.90%) Azure Logic Apps
5 12 (16.90%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (16.90%) Power Automate
6 5 (7.04%) GitHub
7 4 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.82%) MinIO
8 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.82%) SaaS
9 1 (1.41%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.41%) BrowserStack
9 1 (1.41%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) VPN
1 2 (2.82%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.41%) ATM
2 1 (1.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.13%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.23%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.82%) MySQL
3 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (42.25%) Selenium
2 29 (40.85%) JIRA
3 15 (21.13%) Bitbucket
3 15 (21.13%) Cucumber
3 15 (21.13%) GitLab
3 15 (21.13%) Maven
3 15 (21.13%) SonarQube
3 15 (21.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (7.04%) Git
4 5 (7.04%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.04%) Visual Studio
5 4 (5.63%) JMeter
5 4 (5.63%) Postman
6 2 (2.82%) MSTest
6 2 (2.82%) NUnit
6 2 (2.82%) Robot Framework
6 2 (2.82%) Snyk
6 2 (2.82%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.82%) TestNG
7 1 (1.41%) Cypress.io
General
1 21 (29.58%) Law
2 17 (23.94%) Finance
3 15 (21.13%) Banking
3 15 (21.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (15.49%) Legal
5 7 (9.86%) Social Skills
6 6 (8.45%) Electronics
6 6 (8.45%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Games
7 2 (2.82%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.82%) Retail
8 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (22.54%) Software Engineer
2 13 (18.31%) Senior
3 11 (15.49%) Test Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) Head of Development
4 10 (14.08%) Head of Product Development
4 10 (14.08%) QA Engineer
5 9 (12.68%) Senior QA Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) Test Technician
7 5 (7.04%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Senior Test Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Analyst
9 3 (4.23%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Test Analyst
10 2 (2.82%) Automation Test Analyst
10 2 (2.82%) Development Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) IT Support
10 2 (2.82%) Site Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) Support Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) Windows Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (38.03%) React
2 17 (23.94%) Kafka
3 15 (21.13%) CSS
3 15 (21.13%) HTML
3 15 (21.13%) JPA
3 15 (21.13%) Redux
3 15 (21.13%) Spring
3 15 (21.13%) Spring Boot
4 14 (19.72%) .NET
5 13 (18.31%) Hibernate
6 12 (16.90%) HTML5 Canvas
7 5 (7.04%) Playwright
7 5 (7.04%) REST
7 5 (7.04%) RESTful
8 2 (2.82%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (2.82%) CSS3
8 2 (2.82%) HTML5
8 2 (2.82%) Jest
8 2 (2.82%) Middleware
8 2 (2.82%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.54%) Product Ownership
2 15 (21.13%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.23%) Low-Code
3 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.41%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.41%) IoT
4 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.41%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.04%) Linux
2 4 (5.63%) Windows
3 2 (2.82%) Debian
3 2 (2.82%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.82%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.41%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (66.20%) Agile
2 43 (60.56%) CI/CD
3 36 (50.70%) DevOps
4 34 (47.89%) SDLC
5 30 (42.25%) Microservices
6 21 (29.58%) Containerisation
6 21 (29.58%) Software Engineering
7 15 (21.13%) Front End Development
7 15 (21.13%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (21.13%) Performance Optimisation
8 14 (19.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (19.72%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (19.72%) Scrum
8 14 (19.72%) User Experience
9 13 (18.31%) Clean Code
9 13 (18.31%) Manual Testing
9 13 (18.31%) Software Testing
9 13 (18.31%) TDD
9 13 (18.31%) Test Scripting
10 12 (16.90%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 30 (42.25%) JavaScript
2 20 (28.17%) SQL
3 17 (23.94%) C#
4 16 (22.54%) Java
5 10 (14.08%) Python
6 5 (7.04%) C++
7 3 (4.23%) Bicep
7 3 (4.23%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.82%) Bash
8 2 (2.82%) PHP
8 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.41%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 14 (19.72%) ISTQB
2 5 (7.04%) Degree
3 4 (5.63%) HNC
4 2 (2.82%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.82%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.41%) ISEB
5 1 (1.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (40.85%) QA
2 3 (4.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 25 (35.21%) Docker
2 2 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (29.58%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.45%) Ansible
3 4 (5.63%) Terraform
4 2 (2.82%) Control-M
4 2 (2.82%) Grafana
4 2 (2.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (21.13%) Solace
2 14 (19.72%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.82%) Aderant
3 2 (2.82%) AppDynamics
3 2 (2.82%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (2.82%) Black Duck
3 2 (2.82%) IBM
3 2 (2.82%) iManage
3 2 (2.82%) Intapp
3 2 (2.82%) MuleSoft
3 2 (2.82%) UiPath
3 2 (2.82%) VMware
4 1 (1.41%) DataCore
4 1 (1.41%) NCR