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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 90 118
Rank change year-on-year -41 +28 -72
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 68 84 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.92% 2.43% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 2.78% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 37 51 42
10th Percentile £37,250 £34,500 £33,875
25th Percentile £42,125 £47,500 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £52,647
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +8.27% -12.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £61,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £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 5,208 3,025 3,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.30% 87.53% 73.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,754 1,620 2,170
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,593
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.90% -11.20%

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 22 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 22 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 -13 26 £47,500 -32.86% 28
Cambridgeshire -20 18 £53,775 -8.08% 45
Essex -24 10 £52,500 -0.94% 12
Bedfordshire -22 6 £42,500 - 13
Suffolk +12 5 £55,000 -15.38% 8
Norfolk -36 4 £54,500 +42.48% 6
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 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.47%) CMS
1 1 (1.47%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (2.94%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (1.47%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.12%) Azure
2 7 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (10.29%) GCP
3 6 (8.82%) GitHub
3 6 (8.82%) Power Platform
4 5 (7.35%) AWS
5 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (5.88%) SaaS
6 3 (4.41%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (4.41%) Google Analytics
6 3 (4.41%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (2.94%) Apigee
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.94%) Serverless
8 1 (1.47%) dbt
8 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) Broadband
2 3 (4.41%) SMS
3 2 (2.94%) Bluetooth
4 1 (1.47%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (1.47%) NFC
4 1 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.47%) Wireless
4 1 (1.47%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.35%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.88%) BigQuery
2 4 (5.88%) Power BI
2 4 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.41%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.41%) Semantic Layer
4 2 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.94%) MySQL
4 2 (2.94%) SQLite
5 1 (1.47%) Airbyte
5 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.47%) Metadata
5 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.47%) Power Query
5 1 (1.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (17.65%) Selenium
2 8 (11.76%) Git
3 7 (10.29%) Cypress.io
3 7 (10.29%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.82%) JIRA
5 4 (5.88%) LabVIEW
6 3 (4.41%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (2.94%) GitLab
7 2 (2.94%) Ranorex
7 2 (2.94%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.47%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (1.47%) Claude Code
8 1 (1.47%) JMeter
8 1 (1.47%) Postman
8 1 (1.47%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.47%) SpecFlow
General
1 19 (27.94%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.59%) Manufacturing
3 13 (19.12%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (17.65%) Electronics
5 11 (16.18%) Aerospace
6 8 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (10.29%) Automotive
7 7 (10.29%) Finance
8 6 (8.82%) Law
8 6 (8.82%) Marketing
9 4 (5.88%) Advertising
9 4 (5.88%) Telecoms
10 3 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (4.41%) Retail
11 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
12 1 (1.47%) Games
12 1 (1.47%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 16 (23.53%) Lead
2 13 (19.12%) Developer
2 13 (19.12%) Senior
2 13 (19.12%) Software Engineer
3 8 (11.76%) Test Leader
4 7 (10.29%) Lead Software Engineer
5 6 (8.82%) Architect
5 6 (8.82%) Software Developer
5 6 (8.82%) Test Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Embedded Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) QA Leader
6 4 (5.88%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.41%) Analyst
7 3 (4.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Lead Embedded Software Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) QA Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Real Time Embedded Software Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Software Test Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.24%) Playwright
2 5 (7.35%) Node.js
3 4 (5.88%) .NET
3 4 (5.88%) Django
3 4 (5.88%) REST
3 4 (5.88%) Terraform
3 4 (5.88%) WPF
4 3 (4.41%) CSS
4 3 (4.41%) Flask
4 3 (4.41%) React
5 2 (2.94%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.94%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.94%) HTML
5 2 (2.94%) Middleware
5 2 (2.94%) NestJS
5 2 (2.94%) Next.js
5 2 (2.94%) pytest
5 2 (2.94%) WinForms
6 1 (1.47%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.29%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.35%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (7.35%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.41%) IoT
5 3 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.94%) Analogue Electronics
6 2 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.47%) ARM Cortex
7 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.47%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.47%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.47%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.35%) Linux
2 4 (5.88%) Windows
3 3 (4.41%) VxWorks
4 1 (1.47%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.65%) CI/CD
2 28 (41.18%) Agile
3 26 (38.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 26 (38.24%) Software Engineering
4 21 (30.88%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (29.41%) Mentoring
6 17 (25.00%) DevOps
6 17 (25.00%) Software Testing
7 14 (20.59%) SDLC
7 14 (20.59%) Validation
8 12 (17.65%) Roadmaps
9 10 (14.71%) AI
10 9 (13.24%) Clean Code
10 9 (13.24%) Collaborative Working
10 9 (13.24%) Manual Testing
10 9 (13.24%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (13.24%) Regression Testing
10 9 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (13.24%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (13.24%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.94%) Python
2 12 (17.65%) C#
2 12 (17.65%) SQL
3 11 (16.18%) C++
4 9 (13.24%) C
5 6 (8.82%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.41%) Ada
6 3 (4.41%) Embedded C
6 3 (4.41%) Embedded C++
6 3 (4.41%) Java
6 3 (4.41%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.94%) MATLAB
7 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.47%) Assembly Language
8 1 (1.47%) Bicep
8 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.47%) Go
8 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (25.00%) Degree
2 11 (16.18%) Security Cleared
3 7 (10.29%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.41%) DBS Check
5 3 (4.41%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.41%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.47%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.47%) HNC
6 1 (1.47%) ISEB
6 1 (1.47%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (30.88%) QA
2 8 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.41%) Automotive SPICE
3 3 (4.41%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.41%) GDPR
3 3 (4.41%) PERC
4 1 (1.47%) ISO 26262
4 1 (1.47%) JTAG
4 1 (1.47%) MISRA
4 1 (1.47%) MISRA C
System Software
1 9 (13.24%) Firmware
2 4 (5.88%) Docker
3 3 (4.41%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (4.41%) Functional Safety
2 2 (2.94%) Ansible
2 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.82%) Google
3 4 (5.88%) Oracle
4 3 (4.41%) dotdigital
4 3 (4.41%) Informatica
4 3 (4.41%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (2.94%) DevExpress
5 2 (2.94%) Pega
5 2 (2.94%) SAP
5 2 (2.94%) Telerik