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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 68 87
Rank change year-on-year -47 +19 -50
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 43 134 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.15% 3.16% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 3.89% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 35 36 18
10th Percentile £25,250 £43,125 £20,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £32,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +21.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £69,250 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,000 £78,750 £77,125
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 2,970 3,449 1,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 79.69% 81.29% 92.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,785 1,499 1,298
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £43,375 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +0.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £67,875
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 27 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 27 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 -2 13 £60,000 +13.65% 13
Hertfordshire +18 12 £70,000 - 13
Norfolk +23 8 £37,500 - 4
Essex -6 7 £37,500 -37.50% 8
Suffolk -16 3 £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 2 (4.65%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Elite 3E
2 1 (2.33%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 13 (30.23%) Azure
2 9 (20.93%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (16.28%) AWS
4 5 (11.63%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (11.63%) GitHub
4 5 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (11.63%) Power Automate
5 4 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.65%) GCP
6 2 (4.65%) SaaS
7 1 (2.33%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.33%) PaaS
7 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) VPN
1 3 (6.98%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.33%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
1 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.65%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Git
1 5 (11.63%) Jenkins
1 5 (11.63%) JIRA
2 3 (6.98%) JMeter
2 3 (6.98%) Postman
2 3 (6.98%) Selenium
2 3 (6.98%) Visual Studio
3 2 (4.65%) MSTest
3 2 (4.65%) NUnit
3 2 (4.65%) SpecFlow
3 2 (4.65%) TestNG
4 1 (2.33%) LabVIEW
General
1 5 (11.63%) Law
2 4 (9.30%) Electronics
2 4 (9.30%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Finance
3 2 (4.65%) Games
3 2 (4.65%) Legal
3 2 (4.65%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (34.88%) Test Engineer
2 9 (20.93%) Senior
3 7 (16.28%) Senior Test Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Test Technician
6 4 (9.30%) Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Head of Development
7 3 (6.98%) IT Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) IT Support
7 3 (6.98%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) RF Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) RF Test Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Senior RF Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Support Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Test Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) Windows Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) .NET
2 5 (11.63%) HTML5 Canvas
2 5 (11.63%) React
3 4 (9.30%) Playwright
3 4 (9.30%) RESTful
4 3 (6.98%) REST
5 2 (4.65%) ARM Templates
5 2 (4.65%) Middleware
5 2 (4.65%) Node.js
6 1 (2.33%) PyTorch
6 1 (2.33%) Semantic Kernel
6 1 (2.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.33%) IoT
3 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Linux
2 5 (11.63%) Windows
3 3 (6.98%) Debian
3 3 (6.98%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.33%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (44.19%) CI/CD
2 14 (32.56%) Agile
3 12 (27.91%) SDLC
4 10 (23.26%) DevOps
5 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (16.28%) API Testing
6 7 (16.28%) Microservices
6 7 (16.28%) Scrum
7 6 (13.95%) Containerisation
7 6 (13.95%) Software Engineering
8 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (11.63%) Manual Testing
8 5 (11.63%) Mentoring
8 5 (11.63%) Product Strategy
8 5 (11.63%) Security Testing
8 5 (11.63%) User Experience
9 4 (9.30%) Software Testing
10 3 (6.98%) AI
10 3 (6.98%) Analytics
10 3 (6.98%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.58%) C#
2 10 (23.26%) Python
3 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.30%) SQL
5 3 (6.98%) C++
6 2 (4.65%) Bash
6 2 (4.65%) Bicep
6 2 (4.65%) PHP
6 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.33%) Java
7 1 (2.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Degree
1 5 (11.63%) ISTQB
2 4 (9.30%) HNC
3 1 (2.33%) ISEB
3 1 (2.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) EU AI Act
2 1 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.30%) Ansible
3 2 (4.65%) Control-M
3 2 (4.65%) Grafana
3 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.65%) Aderant
2 2 (4.65%) AppDynamics
2 2 (4.65%) IBM
2 2 (4.65%) iManage
2 2 (4.65%) Intapp
2 2 (4.65%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.33%) Foundry
3 1 (2.33%) NCR