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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 65 87
Rank change year-on-year -53 +22 -45
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 44 131 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.23% 3.10% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 3.90% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 35 33 17
10th Percentile £25,250 - £20,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £69,250 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £71,950 £78,750 £79,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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 2,918 3,360 1,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 81.30% 79.56% 92.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,755 1,425 1,310
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £38,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +0.92% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,300 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 20 November 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 20 November 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 14 £60,000 +13.65% 17
Hertfordshire +9 12 £70,000 - 22
Norfolk +20 8 £37,500 - 4
Essex -10 7 £37,500 -37.50% 6
Suffolk -12 3 £65,000 +85.71% 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 (4.55%) Apache Solr
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.27%) Appian
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Elite 3E
2 1 (2.27%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.82%) Azure
2 10 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (18.18%) AWS
4 5 (11.36%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (11.36%) GitHub
4 5 (11.36%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (11.36%) Power Automate
5 4 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.55%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.55%) GCP
6 2 (4.55%) SaaS
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.27%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.27%) MinIO
7 1 (2.27%) PaaS
7 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) VPN
1 3 (6.82%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.27%) ATM
2 1 (2.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
1 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Git
1 5 (11.36%) Jenkins
1 5 (11.36%) JIRA
2 4 (9.09%) Selenium
3 3 (6.82%) JMeter
3 3 (6.82%) Postman
3 3 (6.82%) Visual Studio
4 2 (4.55%) MSTest
4 2 (4.55%) NUnit
4 2 (4.55%) SpecFlow
4 2 (4.55%) TestNG
5 1 (2.27%) LabVIEW
5 1 (2.27%) Robot Framework
5 1 (2.27%) Snyk
General
1 5 (11.36%) Law
2 4 (9.09%) Electronics
2 4 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 3 (6.82%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Finance
4 2 (4.55%) Games
4 2 (4.55%) Legal
5 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (34.09%) Test Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) Senior
3 7 (15.91%) Senior Test Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Test Technician
6 4 (9.09%) Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Head of Development
7 3 (6.82%) Head of Product Development
7 3 (6.82%) IT Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) IT Support
7 3 (6.82%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) RF Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) RF Test Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Senior RF Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Support Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Test Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Windows Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.91%) .NET
2 5 (11.36%) HTML5 Canvas
2 5 (11.36%) React
3 4 (9.09%) Playwright
3 4 (9.09%) RESTful
4 3 (6.82%) REST
5 2 (4.55%) ARM Templates
5 2 (4.55%) Middleware
5 2 (4.55%) Node.js
6 1 (2.27%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (2.27%) Kafka
6 1 (2.27%) PyTorch
6 1 (2.27%) Semantic Kernel
6 1 (2.27%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.55%) IoT
2 2 (4.55%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.27%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (2.27%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.64%) Linux
2 5 (11.36%) Windows
3 3 (6.82%) Debian
3 3 (6.82%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.27%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (43.18%) CI/CD
2 16 (36.36%) Agile
3 12 (27.27%) DevOps
3 12 (27.27%) SDLC
4 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (18.18%) Scrum
6 7 (15.91%) API Testing
6 7 (15.91%) Microservices
7 6 (13.64%) Containerisation
7 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (13.64%) Security Testing
7 6 (13.64%) Software Engineering
8 5 (11.36%) Manual Testing
8 5 (11.36%) Product Strategy
8 5 (11.36%) User Experience
9 4 (9.09%) API Management
9 4 (9.09%) Mentoring
9 4 (9.09%) Software Testing
10 3 (6.82%) Machine Learning
10 3 (6.82%) OO
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.27%) Python
2 10 (22.73%) C#
3 7 (15.91%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.36%) SQL
5 3 (6.82%) Bicep
5 3 (6.82%) C++
6 2 (4.55%) Bash
6 2 (4.55%) PHP
6 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.27%) Java
7 1 (2.27%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 5 (11.36%) Degree
1 5 (11.36%) ISTQB
2 4 (9.09%) HNC
3 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) ISEB
3 1 (2.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.27%) MCP
3 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) EU AI Act
2 1 (2.27%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (22.73%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.36%) Ansible
3 3 (6.82%) Terraform
4 2 (4.55%) Control-M
4 2 (4.55%) Grafana
4 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.55%) Aderant
2 2 (4.55%) AppDynamics
2 2 (4.55%) IBM
2 2 (4.55%) iManage
2 2 (4.55%) Intapp
2 2 (4.55%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.27%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (2.27%) Black Duck
3 1 (2.27%) DataCore
3 1 (2.27%) Foundry
3 1 (2.27%) NCR
3 1 (2.27%) UiPath
3 1 (2.27%) VMware