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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 102 117
Rank change year-on-year -23 +15 -72
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 72 85 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.95% 2.44% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 2.80% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 42 52 40
10th Percentile £41,250 £34,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,125 £38,125 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,750 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -11.89% +10.73% -10.87%
75th Percentile £66,563 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £72,925 £61,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year +3.17% +4.13% -6.92%

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 5,338 3,036 3,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.26% 87.07% 73.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,902 1,647 2,066
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -8.68%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £68,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £84,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -8.80%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -9 27 £47,500 -33.57% 29
Cambridgeshire -20 17 £45,050 -24.92% 60
Essex -24 10 £52,500 -0.94% 13
Suffolk +16 8 £68,750 +5.77% 15
Bedfordshire -24 7 £42,500 - 19
Norfolk -36 4 £54,500 +39.74% 10
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 1 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.39%) CMS
1 1 (1.39%) Headless CMS
1 1 (1.39%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (1.39%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.39%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.67%) Azure
2 7 (9.72%) GCP
3 6 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (8.33%) GitHub
4 5 (6.94%) AWS
4 5 (6.94%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.56%) SaaS
6 3 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (4.17%) Google Analytics
6 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.78%) Apigee
7 2 (2.78%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.78%) Serverless
7 2 (2.78%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.39%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.39%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.94%) Broadband
2 3 (4.17%) SMS
3 2 (2.78%) Bluetooth
3 2 (2.78%) DNS
3 2 (2.78%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.39%) 4G
4 1 (1.39%) 5G
4 1 (1.39%) BGP
4 1 (1.39%) DHCP
4 1 (1.39%) HTTP
4 1 (1.39%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (1.39%) NFC
4 1 (1.39%) OSPF
4 1 (1.39%) SSH
4 1 (1.39%) VLAN
4 1 (1.39%) VPN
4 1 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.39%) Wireless
4 1 (1.39%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) Relational Database
1 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.56%) BigQuery
2 4 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.56%) Power BI
3 3 (4.17%) MySQL
3 3 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (4.17%) Semantic Layer
4 2 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.78%) SQLite
5 1 (1.39%) Airbyte
5 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.39%) Metadata
5 1 (1.39%) Power Query
5 1 (1.39%) Redis
5 1 (1.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (19.44%) Selenium
2 10 (13.89%) Git
3 8 (11.11%) Cypress.io
4 7 (9.72%) Jenkins
5 6 (8.33%) JIRA
6 4 (5.56%) GitLab
6 4 (5.56%) LabVIEW
7 3 (4.17%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (4.17%) Robot Framework
8 2 (2.78%) Ranorex
8 2 (2.78%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.39%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (1.39%) Claude Code
9 1 (1.39%) JMeter
9 1 (1.39%) Postman
9 1 (1.39%) SpecFlow
General
1 19 (26.39%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.83%) Manufacturing
3 14 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (19.44%) Electronics
4 12 (16.67%) Aerospace
5 8 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (9.72%) Automotive
7 5 (6.94%) Finance
7 5 (6.94%) Law
7 5 (6.94%) Marketing
7 5 (6.94%) Telecoms
8 4 (5.56%) Advertising
9 3 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.78%) Retail
11 1 (1.39%) Games
11 1 (1.39%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 15 (20.83%) Developer
1 15 (20.83%) Lead
2 14 (19.44%) Senior
3 13 (18.06%) Software Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) Test Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Lead Software Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Software Developer
5 7 (9.72%) Test Leader
6 5 (6.94%) Architect
6 5 (6.94%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.56%) Embedded Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) QA Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) QA Leader
8 3 (4.17%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Lead Embedded Software Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Python Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Real Time Embedded Software Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Real Time Software Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.28%) Playwright
2 6 (8.33%) REST
3 5 (6.94%) .NET
3 5 (6.94%) Node.js
3 5 (6.94%) WPF
4 4 (5.56%) CSS
4 4 (5.56%) Django
4 4 (5.56%) Flask
4 4 (5.56%) Terraform
5 3 (4.17%) .NET Framework
5 3 (4.17%) Entity Framework
5 3 (4.17%) HTML
5 3 (4.17%) pytest
5 3 (4.17%) React
5 3 (4.17%) WinForms
6 2 (2.78%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.78%) FastAPI
6 2 (2.78%) Middleware
6 2 (2.78%) NestJS
6 2 (2.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.72%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.94%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (6.94%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.17%) Analogue Electronics
5 3 (4.17%) IoT
5 3 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.78%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.39%) ARM Cortex
7 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.39%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.39%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.72%) Linux
2 5 (6.94%) Windows
3 3 (4.17%) VxWorks
4 1 (1.39%) Android
4 1 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 29 (40.28%) Agile
3 28 (38.89%) Software Engineering
4 27 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (31.94%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (27.78%) Mentoring
7 18 (25.00%) DevOps
8 17 (23.61%) Software Testing
9 15 (20.83%) Validation
10 14 (19.44%) SDLC
11 11 (15.28%) Roadmaps
12 10 (13.89%) AI
13 9 (12.50%) Clean Code
13 9 (12.50%) Code Quality
13 9 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
13 9 (12.50%) Manual Testing
13 9 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
13 9 (12.50%) Regression Testing
13 9 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.17%) Python
2 14 (19.44%) SQL
3 13 (18.06%) C#
4 11 (15.28%) C++
5 9 (12.50%) C
6 7 (9.72%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.17%) Ada
7 3 (4.17%) Embedded C
7 3 (4.17%) Embedded C++
7 3 (4.17%) Java
7 3 (4.17%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.78%) MATLAB
8 2 (2.78%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.39%) Assembly Language
9 1 (1.39%) Bash
9 1 (1.39%) Bicep
9 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.39%) Go
9 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (23.61%) Degree
2 13 (18.06%) Security Cleared
3 8 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.17%) DBS Check
6 3 (4.17%) ISTQB
7 2 (2.78%) HNC
8 1 (1.39%) CREST Certified
8 1 (1.39%) HND
8 1 (1.39%) ISEB
8 1 (1.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (1.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (30.56%) QA
2 7 (9.72%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.17%) Automotive SPICE
3 3 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.17%) GDPR
3 3 (4.17%) PERC
4 1 (1.39%) ISO 26262
4 1 (1.39%) JTAG
4 1 (1.39%) MISRA
4 1 (1.39%) MISRA C
System Software
1 9 (12.50%) Firmware
2 5 (6.94%) Docker
3 3 (4.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (4.17%) Functional Safety
2 2 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.39%) Ansible
3 1 (1.39%) Grafana
3 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (9.72%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.33%) Google
3 4 (5.56%) SAP
4 3 (4.17%) DevExpress
4 3 (4.17%) dotdigital
4 3 (4.17%) Informatica
4 3 (4.17%) Oracle
4 3 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 3 (4.17%) Telerik
5 2 (2.78%) Pega