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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 65 92
Rank change year-on-year -37 +27 -50
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 56 133 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.78% 3.17% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 4.09% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 48 34 18
10th Percentile £25,250 £41,875 £20,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £32,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +18.42% -12.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,375 £77,125
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%

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 2,583 3,251 1,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 82.29% 77.53% 92.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,679 1,410 1,305
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 5 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 5 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 0 18 £60,000 +11.32% 30
Hertfordshire +16 12 £70,000 - 33
Essex -2 12 £53,000 -11.67% 7
Norfolk +20 8 £37,500 +36.36% 10
Suffolk -15 6 £65,000 +85.71% 2
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 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.57%) Apache Solr
1 2 (3.57%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.57%) Appian
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.79%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 22 (39.29%) Azure
2 17 (30.36%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (19.64%) Azure Logic Apps
3 11 (19.64%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (19.64%) Power Automate
4 10 (17.86%) AWS
5 5 (8.93%) GitHub
6 4 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.57%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.57%) GCP
7 2 (3.57%) MinIO
7 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.57%) SaaS
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.79%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.79%) PaaS
8 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) VPN
1 3 (5.36%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.79%) ATM
2 1 (1.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) MongoDB
1 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.57%) MySQL
3 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (21.43%) JIRA
1 12 (21.43%) Selenium
2 5 (8.93%) Git
2 5 (8.93%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.14%) Visual Studio
4 3 (5.36%) JMeter
4 3 (5.36%) Postman
5 2 (3.57%) MSTest
5 2 (3.57%) NUnit
5 2 (3.57%) Robot Framework
5 2 (3.57%) Snyk
5 2 (3.57%) SpecFlow
5 2 (3.57%) TestNG
6 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.79%) GitLab
6 1 (1.79%) LabVIEW
6 1 (1.79%) Maven
6 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (30.36%) Law
2 8 (14.29%) Legal
3 5 (8.93%) Electronics
3 5 (8.93%) Manufacturing
3 5 (8.93%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.36%) Finance
5 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Games
6 1 (1.79%) Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (23.21%) Test Engineer
2 12 (21.43%) Senior
3 9 (16.07%) Head of Development
3 9 (16.07%) Head of Product Development
4 7 (12.50%) QA Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Senior QA Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Test Automation Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Test Technician
6 5 (8.93%) Senior Test Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) IT Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) IT Support
8 3 (5.36%) IT Support Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Support Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Test Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Windows Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Windows Support Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (23.21%) .NET
2 12 (21.43%) React
3 11 (19.64%) HTML5 Canvas
4 5 (8.93%) RESTful
5 4 (7.14%) Playwright
5 4 (7.14%) REST
6 3 (5.36%) Kafka
7 2 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (3.57%) ARM Templates
7 2 (3.57%) Middleware
7 2 (3.57%) Node.js
8 1 (1.79%) CSS
8 1 (1.79%) CSS3
8 1 (1.79%) HTML5
8 1 (1.79%) JPA
8 1 (1.79%) PyTorch
8 1 (1.79%) Sass
8 1 (1.79%) Semantic Kernel
8 1 (1.79%) Spring
8 1 (1.79%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.36%) Low-Code
3 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.79%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.79%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.79%) IoT
4 1 (1.79%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.71%) Linux
2 5 (8.93%) Windows
3 3 (5.36%) Debian
3 3 (5.36%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.57%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.79%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (53.57%) Agile
2 27 (48.21%) CI/CD
3 20 (35.71%) DevOps
4 19 (33.93%) SDLC
5 15 (26.79%) Microservices
6 14 (25.00%) Scrum
7 13 (23.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (21.43%) User Experience
9 11 (19.64%) Product Strategy
10 10 (17.86%) Manual Testing
10 10 (17.86%) Software Testing
11 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (16.07%) Test Scripting
12 8 (14.29%) Project Management
12 8 (14.29%) Software Engineering
12 8 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
13 7 (12.50%) API Testing
13 7 (12.50%) Containerisation
13 7 (12.50%) Security Testing
14 6 (10.71%) Defect Tracking
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.57%) C#
2 14 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 13 (23.21%) Python
4 6 (10.71%) SQL
5 4 (7.14%) C++
6 3 (5.36%) Bicep
7 2 (3.57%) Bash
7 2 (3.57%) Java
7 2 (3.57%) PHP
7 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.79%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) ISTQB
2 5 (8.93%) Degree
3 4 (7.14%) HNC
4 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) ISEB
5 1 (1.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.79%) MCP
5 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.79%) EU AI Act
2 1 (1.79%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (19.64%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.71%) Ansible
3 4 (7.14%) Terraform
4 2 (3.57%) Control-M
4 2 (3.57%) Grafana
4 2 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.57%) Aderant
2 2 (3.57%) AppDynamics
2 2 (3.57%) BiZZdesign
2 2 (3.57%) Black Duck
2 2 (3.57%) IBM
2 2 (3.57%) iManage
2 2 (3.57%) Intapp
2 2 (3.57%) MuleSoft
2 2 (3.57%) UiPath
2 2 (3.57%) VMware
3 1 (1.79%) DataCore
3 1 (1.79%) Foundry
3 1 (1.79%) NCR
3 1 (1.79%) Solace