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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 95 63
Rank change year-on-year -11 -32 +11
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 107 83 137
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.28% 2.49% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 2.89% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 61 49 36
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,125 £34,375
25th Percentile £40,750 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £60,000 £52,795
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +13.65% +0.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -

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 5,878 2,874 3,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.28% 86.13% 76.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,292 1,545 1,529
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,878 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% -18.18% +1.85%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,833 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 October 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 October 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 -4 35 £51,250 -26.79% 24
Essex -9 25 £40,000 -24.53% 19
Cambridgeshire -18 25 £45,050 -24.92% 118
Suffolk +13 11 £65,000 - 26
Bedfordshire -24 9 £42,500 - 23
Norfolk -31 4 £54,500 +45.33% 4
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 (1.87%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.93%) CMS
2 1 (0.93%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Simulink
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.93%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.95%) Azure
2 9 (8.41%) AWS
3 8 (7.48%) GCP
4 6 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.61%) GitHub
5 5 (4.67%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.74%) SaaS
7 3 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.80%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (2.80%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.87%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.87%) Serverless
8 2 (1.87%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.87%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.93%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.93%) BrowserStack
9 1 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) Broadband
2 4 (3.74%) DNS
2 4 (3.74%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.80%) SMS
4 2 (1.87%) 4G
4 2 (1.87%) 5G
4 2 (1.87%) BGP
4 2 (1.87%) DHCP
4 2 (1.87%) Ethernet
4 2 (1.87%) HTTP
4 2 (1.87%) OSPF
4 2 (1.87%) SSH
4 2 (1.87%) VLAN
4 2 (1.87%) VPN
5 1 (0.93%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.93%) DOCSIS
5 1 (0.93%) MQTT
5 1 (0.93%) NFC
5 1 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.61%) Redis
1 6 (5.61%) Relational Database
2 5 (4.67%) Power BI
3 4 (3.74%) BigQuery
3 4 (3.74%) MySQL
3 4 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.80%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.80%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (2.80%) Semantic Layer
4 3 (2.80%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.87%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.87%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (1.87%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.87%) Spatial Data
5 2 (1.87%) SQLite
6 1 (0.93%) Airbyte
6 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.93%) SAS EBI
6 1 (0.93%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (16.82%) Selenium
2 14 (13.08%) Git
3 10 (9.35%) Cypress.io
4 8 (7.48%) GitLab
5 6 (5.61%) Jenkins
6 5 (4.67%) JIRA
6 5 (4.67%) LabVIEW
7 4 (3.74%) REST Assured
7 4 (3.74%) Robot Framework
8 3 (2.80%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (1.87%) Ranorex
9 2 (1.87%) Vite
10 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.93%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.93%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.93%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.93%) Postman
10 1 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.93%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (28.97%) Manufacturing
2 23 (21.50%) Electronics
3 21 (19.63%) Social Skills
4 18 (16.82%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (14.95%) Aerospace
6 10 (9.35%) Automotive
7 9 (8.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (6.54%) Finance
8 7 (6.54%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.74%) Law
9 4 (3.74%) Marketing
10 3 (2.80%) Advertising
10 3 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Banking
11 1 (0.93%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.93%) Military
11 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (20.56%) Test Engineer
2 19 (17.76%) Senior
3 16 (14.95%) Developer
3 16 (14.95%) Lead
4 15 (14.02%) Test Automation Engineer
5 13 (12.15%) Software Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) Software Developer
7 6 (5.61%) QA Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Test Leader
8 5 (4.67%) Analyst
8 5 (4.67%) Lead Software Engineer
8 5 (4.67%) Python Engineer
8 5 (4.67%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.67%) Test Analyst
9 4 (3.74%) Architect
9 4 (3.74%) Commissioning Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) Electronics Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) QA Leader
10 3 (2.80%) Lead Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.15%) Playwright
2 11 (10.28%) REST
3 7 (6.54%) .NET
3 7 (6.54%) WPF
4 6 (5.61%) FastAPI
4 6 (5.61%) Flask
4 6 (5.61%) RESTful
5 5 (4.67%) CSS
5 5 (4.67%) WinForms
6 4 (3.74%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.74%) Entity Framework
6 4 (3.74%) Middleware
7 3 (2.80%) Django
7 3 (2.80%) Kafka
7 3 (2.80%) Node.js
7 3 (2.80%) pytest
7 3 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.87%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.87%) Jinja
8 2 (1.87%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.41%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.61%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.67%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.80%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.87%) Analogue Electronics
6 2 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.87%) IoT
6 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.93%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.93%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.93%) EPoS
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.35%) Linux
2 6 (5.61%) Windows
3 3 (2.80%) VxWorks
4 2 (1.87%) Unix
5 1 (0.93%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (32.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 33 (30.84%) CI/CD
3 32 (29.91%) Software Engineering
4 30 (28.04%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (27.10%) Agile
6 23 (21.50%) Validation
7 19 (17.76%) Mentoring
8 16 (14.95%) DevOps
9 15 (14.02%) Software Testing
10 13 (12.15%) Collaborative Working
11 12 (11.21%) Roadmaps
11 12 (11.21%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (10.28%) AI
12 11 (10.28%) SDLC
13 10 (9.35%) Regression Testing
14 9 (8.41%) Integration Testing
14 9 (8.41%) Test Strategy
14 9 (8.41%) User Experience
15 8 (7.48%) Continuous Integration
15 8 (7.48%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (26.17%) Python
2 20 (18.69%) SQL
3 15 (14.02%) C#
4 12 (11.21%) C++
5 9 (8.41%) C
6 4 (3.74%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.74%) MATLAB
7 3 (2.80%) Ada
7 3 (2.80%) Java
7 3 (2.80%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.87%) Assembly Language
8 2 (1.87%) Bash
8 2 (1.87%) Embedded C
8 2 (1.87%) Embedded C++
8 2 (1.87%) PHP
8 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (21.50%) Degree
2 20 (18.69%) Security Cleared
3 11 (10.28%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.54%) HNC
5 6 (5.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (5.61%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.67%) HND
7 4 (3.74%) ISTQB
8 3 (2.80%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.87%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (21.50%) QA
2 6 (5.61%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.80%) Automotive SPICE
3 3 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.80%) GDPR
3 3 (2.80%) PERC
4 2 (1.87%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.93%) ISO 26262
5 1 (0.93%) MISRA
5 1 (0.93%) MISRA C
System Software
1 9 (8.41%) Docker
1 9 (8.41%) Firmware
2 3 (2.80%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.80%) Functional Safety
1 3 (2.80%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.87%) Grafana
2 2 (1.87%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (6.54%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.74%) DevExpress
2 4 (3.74%) Google
2 4 (3.74%) SAP
2 4 (3.74%) Telerik
3 3 (2.80%) dotdigital
3 3 (2.80%) Informatica
3 3 (2.80%) Oracle
3 3 (2.80%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (0.93%) Allen-Bradley
4 1 (0.93%) Databricks
4 1 (0.93%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (0.93%) Plaid
4 1 (0.93%) Siemens