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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 94 116
Rank change year-on-year -33 +22 -71
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 73 82 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.92% 2.40% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 2.77% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 42 49 35
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,525 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,031 £36,250 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +17.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,375 £70,650 £63,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%

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 5,516 2,957 3,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 69.66% 86.66% 73.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4,053 1,585 1,842
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -1.87%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -14 24 £50,000 -30.07% 21
Cambridgeshire -24 17 £45,050 -24.92% 41
Essex -20 14 £45,000 -15.09% 10
Suffolk +13 8 £60,000 -7.69% 19
Bedfordshire -25 7 £42,500 - 11
Norfolk -34 4 £54,500 +42.48% 6
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 (2.74%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.37%) CMS
2 1 (1.37%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (1.37%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.70%) Azure
2 6 (8.22%) GCP
3 5 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (6.85%) GitHub
4 4 (5.48%) AWS
4 4 (5.48%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.48%) SaaS
5 3 (4.11%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (4.11%) Google Analytics
6 2 (2.74%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.74%) Serverless
6 2 (2.74%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.37%) Apigee
7 1 (1.37%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.37%) dbt
7 1 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) Broadband
2 3 (4.11%) DNS
2 3 (4.11%) SMS
2 3 (4.11%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.74%) 4G
3 2 (2.74%) 5G
3 2 (2.74%) HTTP
3 2 (2.74%) SSH
4 1 (1.37%) BGP
4 1 (1.37%) Bluetooth
4 1 (1.37%) DHCP
4 1 (1.37%) NFC
4 1 (1.37%) OSPF
4 1 (1.37%) VLAN
4 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.22%) Relational Database
2 4 (5.48%) BigQuery
2 4 (5.48%) Power BI
3 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.11%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.11%) Semantic Layer
3 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.74%) MySQL
4 2 (2.74%) Redis
4 2 (2.74%) SQLite
5 1 (1.37%) Airbyte
5 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.37%) Metadata
5 1 (1.37%) Power Query
5 1 (1.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (20.55%) Selenium
2 10 (13.70%) Git
3 8 (10.96%) Cypress.io
4 7 (9.59%) Jenkins
5 5 (6.85%) GitLab
6 4 (5.48%) JIRA
6 4 (5.48%) LabVIEW
7 3 (4.11%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (4.11%) Robot Framework
8 2 (2.74%) Ranorex
8 2 (2.74%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.37%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (1.37%) Claude Code
9 1 (1.37%) JMeter
9 1 (1.37%) Postman
9 1 (1.37%) SpecFlow
General
1 16 (21.92%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.55%) Electronics
2 15 (20.55%) Manufacturing
3 12 (16.44%) Aerospace
3 12 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.33%) Automotive
5 7 (9.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (6.85%) Telecoms
7 4 (5.48%) Advertising
7 4 (5.48%) Finance
7 4 (5.48%) Law
7 4 (5.48%) Marketing
8 3 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (19.18%) Developer
1 14 (19.18%) Lead
1 14 (19.18%) Senior
2 12 (16.44%) Software Engineer
3 11 (15.07%) Test Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) Test Leader
5 6 (8.22%) Lead Software Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Software Developer
6 5 (6.85%) Senior Developer
6 5 (6.85%) Test Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Architect
7 4 (5.48%) Commissioning Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Embedded Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) QA Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) QA Leader
8 3 (4.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Real Time Embedded Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Real Time Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Real Time Software Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.44%) Playwright
2 6 (8.22%) .NET
2 6 (8.22%) REST
2 6 (8.22%) WPF
3 4 (5.48%) .NET Framework
3 4 (5.48%) Entity Framework
3 4 (5.48%) Flask
3 4 (5.48%) pytest
3 4 (5.48%) WinForms
4 3 (4.11%) CSS
4 3 (4.11%) Django
4 3 (4.11%) FastAPI
4 3 (4.11%) Node.js
4 3 (4.11%) RESTful
5 2 (2.74%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.74%) Jinja
5 2 (2.74%) Kafka
5 2 (2.74%) Pandas
5 2 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.22%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.85%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (6.85%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.11%) Analogue Electronics
6 2 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.74%) IoT
7 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.37%) ARM Cortex
7 1 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.37%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.59%) Linux
2 5 (6.85%) Windows
3 3 (4.11%) VxWorks
4 1 (1.37%) Android
4 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (41.10%) Software Engineering
2 29 (39.73%) CI/CD
3 27 (36.99%) Agile
4 25 (34.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (27.40%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (26.03%) Mentoring
7 17 (23.29%) Validation
8 15 (20.55%) Software Testing
9 14 (19.18%) DevOps
10 10 (13.70%) Roadmaps
10 10 (13.70%) SDLC
11 9 (12.33%) AI
11 9 (12.33%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (12.33%) Manual Testing
11 9 (12.33%) User Experience
12 8 (10.96%) Code Quality
12 8 (10.96%) Regression Testing
12 8 (10.96%) Software Architecture
12 8 (10.96%) Technical Leadership
13 7 (9.59%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 22 (30.14%) Python
2 14 (19.18%) C#
2 14 (19.18%) SQL
3 11 (15.07%) C++
4 9 (12.33%) C
5 5 (6.85%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.48%) MATLAB
7 3 (4.11%) Ada
7 3 (4.11%) Embedded C
7 3 (4.11%) Embedded C++
7 3 (4.11%) Java
7 3 (4.11%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.74%) Bash
8 2 (2.74%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.37%) Assembly Language
9 1 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (20.55%) Degree
2 13 (17.81%) Security Cleared
3 8 (10.96%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (5.48%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.11%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.74%) HNC
7 2 (2.74%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.37%) HND
8 1 (1.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (28.77%) QA
2 6 (8.22%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.11%) Automotive SPICE
3 3 (4.11%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.11%) GDPR
3 3 (4.11%) PERC
4 1 (1.37%) ISO 26262
4 1 (1.37%) MISRA
4 1 (1.37%) MISRA C
System Software
1 8 (10.96%) Firmware
2 6 (8.22%) Docker
3 3 (4.11%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (4.11%) Functional Safety
2 2 (2.74%) Grafana
2 2 (2.74%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (6.85%) Google
1 5 (6.85%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.48%) DevExpress
2 4 (5.48%) SAP
2 4 (5.48%) Telerik
3 3 (4.11%) dotdigital
3 3 (4.11%) Informatica
3 3 (4.11%) Oracle
3 3 (4.11%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) Pega