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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 99 91
Rank change year-on-year -27 -8 -41
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 82 82 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.01% 2.42% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 2.80% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 45 49 34
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,525 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +14.15% -6.82%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,000 £70,650 £63,875
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 5,683 2,932 3,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.00% 86.46% 74.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4,152 1,558 1,779
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,938 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -15.49% -1.39%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -22 24 £50,000 -30.07% 25
Cambridgeshire -30 20 £45,050 -24.92% 98
Essex -15 17 £40,750 -23.11% 15
Suffolk +18 10 £60,000 -7.69% 26
Bedfordshire -23 9 £42,500 - 19
Norfolk -35 4 £54,500 +42.48% 8
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 (2.44%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.22%) CMS
2 1 (1.22%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (1.22%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.63%) Azure
2 7 (8.54%) GCP
3 6 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (7.32%) GitHub
4 5 (6.10%) AWS
5 4 (4.88%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.88%) SaaS
6 3 (3.66%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (3.66%) Google Analytics
7 2 (2.44%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.44%) Serverless
7 2 (2.44%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.22%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (1.22%) dbt
8 1 (1.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.10%) Broadband
2 4 (4.88%) DNS
2 4 (4.88%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.66%) SMS
4 2 (2.44%) 4G
4 2 (2.44%) 5G
4 2 (2.44%) BGP
4 2 (2.44%) DHCP
4 2 (2.44%) HTTP
4 2 (2.44%) OSPF
4 2 (2.44%) SSH
4 2 (2.44%) VLAN
4 2 (2.44%) VPN
5 1 (1.22%) Bluetooth
5 1 (1.22%) DOCSIS
5 1 (1.22%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.22%) NFC
5 1 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.32%) Relational Database
2 4 (4.88%) BigQuery
2 4 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.88%) Power BI
3 3 (3.66%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.66%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (3.66%) Redis
3 3 (3.66%) Semantic Layer
3 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.44%) MySQL
4 2 (2.44%) SQLite
5 1 (1.22%) Airbyte
5 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.22%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.22%) Metadata
5 1 (1.22%) Power Query
5 1 (1.22%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (19.51%) Selenium
2 11 (13.41%) Git
3 8 (9.76%) Cypress.io
4 7 (8.54%) GitLab
4 7 (8.54%) Jenkins
5 6 (7.32%) JIRA
6 4 (4.88%) LabVIEW
6 4 (4.88%) Robot Framework
7 3 (3.66%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (2.44%) Ranorex
8 2 (2.44%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.22%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (1.22%) Claude Code
9 1 (1.22%) JMeter
9 1 (1.22%) Postman
9 1 (1.22%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (1.22%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (24.39%) Manufacturing
2 17 (20.73%) Social Skills
3 16 (19.51%) Electronics
4 14 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (15.85%) Aerospace
6 9 (10.98%) Automotive
7 7 (8.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (7.32%) Telecoms
9 4 (4.88%) Advertising
9 4 (4.88%) Finance
9 4 (4.88%) Law
9 4 (4.88%) Marketing
10 3 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.22%) Health Technology
11 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (18.29%) Lead
2 14 (17.07%) Developer
2 14 (17.07%) Senior
2 14 (17.07%) Test Engineer
3 13 (15.85%) Software Engineer
4 8 (9.76%) Test Automation Engineer
5 7 (8.54%) Test Leader
6 6 (7.32%) Lead Software Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) Software Developer
7 5 (6.10%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Architect
8 4 (4.88%) Commissioning Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) QA Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) QA Leader
9 3 (3.66%) Development Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Embedded Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Lead Embedded Software Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Real Time Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.63%) Playwright
2 7 (8.54%) .NET
2 7 (8.54%) WPF
3 6 (7.32%) REST
4 5 (6.10%) Flask
4 5 (6.10%) WinForms
5 4 (4.88%) .NET Framework
5 4 (4.88%) Entity Framework
5 4 (4.88%) FastAPI
5 4 (4.88%) pytest
5 4 (4.88%) RESTful
6 3 (3.66%) CSS
6 3 (3.66%) Django
6 3 (3.66%) Middleware
6 3 (3.66%) Node.js
7 2 (2.44%) HTML
7 2 (2.44%) Jinja
7 2 (2.44%) Kafka
7 2 (2.44%) Pandas
7 2 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.98%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.10%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.88%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.44%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.44%) IoT
6 1 (1.22%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.22%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.98%) Linux
2 6 (7.32%) Windows
3 3 (3.66%) VxWorks
4 2 (2.44%) Unix
5 1 (1.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (39.02%) CI/CD
2 31 (37.80%) Software Engineering
3 29 (35.37%) Agile
4 27 (32.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (24.39%) Validation
7 19 (23.17%) Mentoring
8 16 (19.51%) DevOps
9 15 (18.29%) Software Testing
10 11 (13.41%) Roadmaps
10 11 (13.41%) SDLC
11 10 (12.20%) AI
11 10 (12.20%) Collaborative Working
12 9 (10.98%) Manual Testing
12 9 (10.98%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (10.98%) User Experience
13 8 (9.76%) Code Quality
13 8 (9.76%) Regression Testing
13 8 (9.76%) Scrum
13 8 (9.76%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (30.49%) Python
2 15 (18.29%) C#
2 15 (18.29%) SQL
3 11 (13.41%) C++
4 8 (9.76%) C
5 5 (6.10%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.88%) MATLAB
7 3 (3.66%) Ada
7 3 (3.66%) Java
7 3 (3.66%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.44%) Assembly Language
8 2 (2.44%) Bash
8 2 (2.44%) Embedded C
8 2 (2.44%) Embedded C++
8 2 (2.44%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (19.51%) Degree
2 15 (18.29%) Security Cleared
3 9 (10.98%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.88%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.66%) DBS Check
6 3 (3.66%) HNC
7 2 (2.44%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.22%) HND
8 1 (1.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (25.61%) QA
2 6 (7.32%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.66%) Automotive SPICE
3 3 (3.66%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.66%) GDPR
3 3 (3.66%) PERC
4 1 (1.22%) ISO 26262
4 1 (1.22%) MISRA
4 1 (1.22%) MISRA C
System Software
1 7 (8.54%) Docker
1 7 (8.54%) Firmware
2 3 (3.66%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (3.66%) Functional Safety
2 2 (2.44%) Grafana
2 2 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (6.10%) Google
1 5 (6.10%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.88%) DevExpress
2 4 (4.88%) SAP
2 4 (4.88%) Telerik
3 3 (3.66%) dotdigital
3 3 (3.66%) Informatica
3 3 (3.66%) Oracle
3 3 (3.66%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (1.22%) Pega