Test Automation Jobs in the East of England

Automated Testing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 117 44
Rank change year-on-year +5 -73 +10
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 79 109 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 2.07% 1.76% 5.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 2.29% 5.83%
Number of salaries quoted 44 81 48
10th Percentile £35,025 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £53,000 £37,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £52,795 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -17.19% +23.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £73,250 £68,901 £95,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +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 3,451 4,769 3,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 90.27% 77.11% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,708 3,429 1,828
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £33,750 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +6.80%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the East of England

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in the East of England.

Salary trend for Test Automation in the East of England

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 17 July 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 17 July 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
Bedfordshire +15 24 £67,500 +35.00% 10
Hertfordshire +16 14 £62,250 +8.26% 22
Essex -5 14 £57,750 +5.00% 33
Cambridgeshire -11 12 £58,500 +23.16% 33
Norfolk +36 9 £39,000 +34.48% 13
Suffolk -19 6 £59,000 +43.03% 6
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (16.46%) Confluence
2 2 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.53%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.53%) Appian
3 1 (1.27%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.27%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.27%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 32 (40.51%) Azure
2 19 (24.05%) AWS
3 15 (18.99%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (16.46%) GCP
5 10 (12.66%) Azure Logic Apps
5 10 (12.66%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (12.66%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.53%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.53%) GitHub
6 2 (2.53%) MinIO
6 2 (2.53%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.53%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.27%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.27%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.27%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.27%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.99%) TCP/IP
1 15 (18.99%) VPN
2 1 (1.27%) GSM
2 1 (1.27%) Internet
2 1 (1.27%) LTE
2 1 (1.27%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.27%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (1.27%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.99%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.53%) Big Data
4 1 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.27%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 30 (37.97%) Cucumber
2 29 (36.71%) Selenium
3 28 (35.44%) JIRA
4 17 (21.52%) GitLab
4 17 (21.52%) Robot Framework
4 17 (21.52%) Sonatype Nexus
5 15 (18.99%) Bitbucket
5 15 (18.99%) Maven
5 15 (18.99%) SonarQube
6 4 (5.06%) CppUnit
6 4 (5.06%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (3.80%) Cypress.io
7 3 (3.80%) Git
7 3 (3.80%) Visual Studio
8 2 (2.53%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.53%) JMeter
8 2 (2.53%) Postman
8 2 (2.53%) Snyk
9 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
General
1 34 (43.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 24 (30.38%) Social Skills
3 19 (24.05%) Law
4 17 (21.52%) Banking
4 17 (21.52%) Finance
5 15 (18.99%) Telecoms
6 11 (13.92%) Legal
7 5 (6.33%) Manufacturing
8 4 (5.06%) Electronics
9 2 (2.53%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.53%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.53%) Retail
10 1 (1.27%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (1.27%) Automotive
10 1 (1.27%) Games
10 1 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 21 (26.58%) Test Engineer
2 17 (21.52%) Software Engineer
3 16 (20.25%) Test Automation Engineer
4 13 (16.46%) Senior
5 10 (12.66%) Head of Development
5 10 (12.66%) Head of Product Development
5 10 (12.66%) QA Engineer
6 9 (11.39%) Senior QA Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Embedded Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Software Verification Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Verification Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Analyst
9 3 (3.80%) Senior Test Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Test Analyst
9 3 (3.80%) Test Technician
10 2 (2.53%) Applications Architect
10 2 (2.53%) Architect
10 2 (2.53%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 2 (2.53%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (31.65%) React
2 19 (24.05%) Kafka
3 15 (18.99%) CSS
3 15 (18.99%) HTML
3 15 (18.99%) JPA
3 15 (18.99%) Redux
3 15 (18.99%) Spring
3 15 (18.99%) Spring Boot
4 13 (16.46%) Hibernate
5 10 (12.66%) .NET
5 10 (12.66%) HTML5 Canvas
6 4 (5.06%) Playwright
6 4 (5.06%) REST
7 3 (3.80%) RESTful
8 2 (2.53%) ARM Templates
8 2 (2.53%) CSS3
8 2 (2.53%) gRPC
8 2 (2.53%) HTML5
8 2 (2.53%) Jest
8 2 (2.53%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.25%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (18.99%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (18.99%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.80%) Low-Code
3 3 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.53%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.53%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.53%) Replication
5 1 (1.27%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.27%) FPGA
5 1 (1.27%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.27%) IoT
5 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.27%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.27%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 19 (24.05%) Linux
2 16 (20.25%) Windows
3 2 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (60.76%) DevOps
2 44 (55.70%) Agile
3 39 (49.37%) CI/CD
4 31 (39.24%) SDLC
5 29 (36.71%) Microservices
6 25 (31.65%) Software Engineering
7 21 (26.58%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (25.32%) Containerisation
9 19 (24.05%) Mentoring
9 19 (24.05%) System Testing
10 15 (18.99%) Coaching
10 15 (18.99%) Front End Development
10 15 (18.99%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (18.99%) Performance Optimisation
10 15 (18.99%) TDD
10 15 (18.99%) Test Management
11 14 (17.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (16.46%) Clean Code
12 13 (16.46%) Software Testing
12 13 (16.46%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 42 (53.16%) JavaScript
2 25 (31.65%) Python
3 20 (25.32%) Bash
4 18 (22.78%) Java
4 18 (22.78%) PowerShell
5 17 (21.52%) SQL
6 13 (16.46%) C#
7 6 (7.59%) C++
8 5 (6.33%) C
9 3 (3.80%) Bicep
9 3 (3.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (26.58%) Degree
2 13 (16.46%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.80%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.53%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.53%) HNC
5 1 (1.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (54.43%) QA
2 3 (3.80%) Accessibility
System Software
1 22 (27.85%) Docker
2 2 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (26.58%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.59%) Terraform
3 5 (6.33%) Ansible
4 2 (2.53%) Rancher
5 1 (1.27%) Control-M
5 1 (1.27%) Grafana
5 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (18.99%) Solace
2 11 (13.92%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.53%) Aderant
3 2 (2.53%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (2.53%) Black Duck
3 2 (2.53%) IBM
3 2 (2.53%) iManage
3 2 (2.53%) Intapp
3 2 (2.53%) MuleSoft
3 2 (2.53%) UiPath
3 2 (2.53%) VMware
4 1 (1.27%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.27%) DataCore