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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 117 125
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 -91
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 57 46 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.90% 1.68% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.81% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 43 29 79
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £33,200
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +20.00% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £63,125
90th Percentile £84,490 £79,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%

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 4,464 2,545 4,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.39% 92.85% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,624 1,403 3,682
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £25,809
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,268 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,300 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -15 19 £50,000 -9.09% 22
Hertfordshire -19 15 £70,000 +16.67% 17
Suffolk +17 9 £45,000 -23.73% 6
Norfolk -13 7 £55,000 +41.03%
Essex -35 4 £50,000 -31.03% 9
Bedfordshire -2 3 £45,000 -34.55% 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.81%) Azure
2 6 (10.53%) AWS
3 5 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (8.77%) Power Platform
4 4 (7.02%) Azure Event Grid
4 4 (7.02%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (7.02%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Copilot
4 4 (7.02%) SaaS
5 3 (5.26%) GitHub
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.51%) Apigee
6 2 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.51%) GCP
6 2 (3.51%) Serverless
6 2 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.75%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.75%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) Broadband
1 2 (3.51%) Network Security
2 1 (1.75%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.75%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.75%) Wireless
2 1 (1.75%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (3.51%) Metadata
3 2 (3.51%) MySQL
3 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.75%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.75%) Power BI
4 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.77%) Git
3 4 (7.02%) Selenium
4 3 (5.26%) JIRA
4 3 (5.26%) LabVIEW
4 3 (5.26%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.75%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.75%) GitLab
5 1 (1.75%) JMeter
5 1 (1.75%) Postman
5 1 (1.75%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.75%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (19.30%) Manufacturing
2 8 (14.04%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.28%) Finance
4 6 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.53%) Electronics
4 6 (10.53%) Retail
5 5 (8.77%) Marketing
6 4 (7.02%) Law
7 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.26%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.51%) Advertising
8 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Games
Job Titles
1 22 (38.60%) Senior
2 19 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 13 (22.81%) Senior Test Engineer
3 13 (22.81%) Test Automation Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Developer
5 8 (14.04%) Software Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) Software Test Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) Lead
8 5 (8.77%) Architect
8 5 (8.77%) Python Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) Senior Developer
9 4 (7.02%) Dynamics 365 Architect
9 4 (7.02%) RF Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) RF Test Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Senior RF Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Supply Chain Architect
10 3 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (5.26%) Azure Software Engineer
10 3 (5.26%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) CSS
1 3 (5.26%) HTML
1 3 (5.26%) React
2 2 (3.51%) Django
2 2 (3.51%) Flask
2 2 (3.51%) NestJS
2 2 (3.51%) Next.js
2 2 (3.51%) Node.js
2 2 (3.51%) Playwright
3 1 (1.75%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.75%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.75%) JSON
3 1 (1.75%) JSON-LD
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.75%) pytest
3 1 (1.75%) REST
3 1 (1.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.77%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (7.02%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.26%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.26%) IoT
5 3 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.75%) Analogue Electronics
7 1 (1.75%) ARM Cortex
7 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.75%) Linked Data
7 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.75%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.75%) Semantic Web
7 1 (1.75%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.75%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Linux
2 2 (3.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (31.58%) Software Engineering
2 16 (28.07%) CI/CD
2 16 (28.07%) Software Testing
3 13 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (21.05%) Agile
4 12 (21.05%) DevOps
5 11 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (17.54%) Mentoring
7 8 (14.04%) Event-Driven
7 8 (14.04%) Microservices
7 8 (14.04%) Roadmaps
7 8 (14.04%) Test Strategy
8 7 (12.28%) AI
8 7 (12.28%) Computer Science
8 7 (12.28%) Manual Testing
8 7 (12.28%) SDLC
9 6 (10.53%) API Testing
9 6 (10.53%) Information Management
9 6 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (10.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (33.33%) Python
2 7 (12.28%) SQL
3 6 (10.53%) C#
4 5 (8.77%) C++
4 5 (8.77%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.02%) C
6 3 (5.26%) PL/SQL
6 3 (5.26%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.51%) Bash
7 2 (3.51%) Java
8 1 (1.75%) Bicep
8 1 (1.75%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.75%) Embedded C++
8 1 (1.75%) Go
8 1 (1.75%) Rust
8 1 (1.75%) SHACL
8 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.75%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 16 (28.07%) Degree
2 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (7.02%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.51%) ISTQB
3 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.75%) CREST Certified
4 1 (1.75%) ISEB
4 1 (1.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (1.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (24.56%) QA
2 4 (7.02%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 1 (1.75%) JTAG
System Software
1 6 (10.53%) Firmware
2 5 (8.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.53%) Terraform
2 4 (7.02%) Ansible
3 1 (1.75%) Grafana
3 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (8.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.02%) Oracle
3 3 (5.26%) Informatica
4 2 (3.51%) Google
4 2 (3.51%) Pega
5 1 (1.75%) New Relic
5 1 (1.75%) SAP