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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 70 92
Rank change year-on-year -44 +22 -55
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 47 120 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.13% 3.42% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 3.93% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 40 26 22
10th Percentile £25,250 £46,250 £20,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £52,500 £30,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +75.00% -38.46%
75th Percentile £65,000 £78,438 £48,438
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,750 £59,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +4.17%

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 3,081 3,056 2,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 74.38% 87.19% 86.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,806 1,194 1,544
10th Percentile £27,688 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,275 £84,850
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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
Cambridgeshire +4 17 £55,000 - 28
Hertfordshire +9 11 £72,500 +3.57% 25
Norfolk +13 8 £37,500 - 17
Suffolk -7 6 £45,000 - 24
Essex -1 4 £25,250 - 19
Bedfordshire -22 1 - - 18
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 2 (4.26%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.40%) Azure
2 5 (10.64%) AWS
3 4 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.51%) GitHub
4 3 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (6.38%) Power Automate
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (4.26%) GCP
5 2 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.26%) SaaS
6 1 (2.13%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.13%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (2.13%) PaaS
6 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.13%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) VPN
1 3 (6.38%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.13%) ATM
2 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.26%) MySQL
3 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.13%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (2.13%) Metadata
3 1 (2.13%) Power BI
3 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Git
2 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.38%) Selenium
3 3 (6.38%) Visual Studio
4 2 (4.26%) JIRA
4 2 (4.26%) JMeter
4 2 (4.26%) MSTest
4 2 (4.26%) NUnit
4 2 (4.26%) Postman
4 2 (4.26%) SpecFlow
4 2 (4.26%) TestNG
5 1 (2.13%) GitLab
5 1 (2.13%) LabVIEW
5 1 (2.13%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (14.89%) Electronics
2 4 (8.51%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.26%) Finance
3 2 (4.26%) Law
3 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.13%) Advertising
4 1 (2.13%) Games
4 1 (2.13%) Marketing
4 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.13%) Retail
4 1 (2.13%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (46.81%) Test Engineer
2 14 (29.79%) Senior
2 14 (29.79%) Test Automation Engineer
3 10 (21.28%) Senior Test Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Python Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Developer
5 5 (10.64%) Test Technician
6 4 (8.51%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Principal Software Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Software Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Software Test Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Software Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) IT Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) IT Support
7 3 (6.38%) RF Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) RF Test Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Windows Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) .NET
2 3 (6.38%) RESTful
3 2 (4.26%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (4.26%) Node.js
3 2 (4.26%) Playwright
3 2 (4.26%) React
3 2 (4.26%) REST
4 1 (2.13%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.13%) JSON
4 1 (2.13%) JSON-LD
4 1 (2.13%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.13%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (2.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.13%) IoT
3 1 (2.13%) Linked Data
3 1 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.13%) Semantic Web
3 1 (2.13%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.02%) Linux
2 5 (10.64%) Windows
3 3 (6.38%) Debian
3 3 (6.38%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.13%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.91%) CI/CD
2 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (17.02%) API Testing
3 8 (17.02%) Manual Testing
3 8 (17.02%) Software Engineering
3 8 (17.02%) Software Testing
4 6 (12.77%) Agile
4 6 (12.77%) Microservices
4 6 (12.77%) SDLC
5 5 (10.64%) DevOps
5 5 (10.64%) Mentoring
6 4 (8.51%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (8.51%) Containerisation
6 4 (8.51%) Decision-Making
6 4 (8.51%) Design Patterns
6 4 (8.51%) High Availability
6 4 (8.51%) Product Roadmap
6 4 (8.51%) Roadmaps
6 4 (8.51%) Scrum
6 4 (8.51%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.79%) Python
2 9 (19.15%) C#
3 4 (8.51%) C++
3 4 (8.51%) JavaScript
3 4 (8.51%) SQL
4 2 (4.26%) PHP
5 1 (2.13%) Java
5 1 (2.13%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.13%) Rust
5 1 (2.13%) SHACL
5 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.13%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 5 (10.64%) Degree
2 3 (6.38%) HNC
3 2 (4.26%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.13%) ISEB
4 1 (2.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.13%) MCP
4 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.15%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) EU AI Act
2 1 (2.13%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (17.02%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.38%) Ansible
3 1 (2.13%) Control-M
3 1 (2.13%) Grafana
3 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.13%) AppDynamics
2 1 (2.13%) Foundry
2 1 (2.13%) NCR
2 1 (2.13%) SAP