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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 117 47
Rank change year-on-year +18 -70 +7
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 82 58 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 2.43% 1.31% 4.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 1.77% 4.81%
Number of salaries quoted 49 34 31
10th Percentile £32,525 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,313 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.15% -6.82% +6.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £70,650 £63,875 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,750
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.40% +4.58%

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 2,928 3,280 2,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 86.65% 73.99% 92.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 1,783 1,397
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,312 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.59% -1.27% +2.86%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £80,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.33%

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

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +16 23 - - 5
Cambridgeshire +2 15 £60,000 +26.32% 16
Essex -4 14 £53,000 -11.67% 3
Norfolk +23 11 £38,250 +27.50% 7
Hertfordshire +15 11 £71,500 +39.51% 13
Suffolk -20 8 £65,000 +85.71% 4
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 (15.85%) Confluence
2 2 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.44%) Apache Solr
2 2 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.44%) Appian
3 1 (1.22%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 35 (42.68%) Azure
2 22 (26.83%) AWS
3 17 (20.73%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (15.85%) GCP
5 12 (14.63%) Azure Logic Apps
5 12 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (14.63%) Power Automate
6 3 (3.66%) GitHub
7 2 (2.44%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.44%) MinIO
7 2 (2.44%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.22%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.22%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.22%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.22%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.22%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.29%) TCP/IP
1 15 (18.29%) VPN
2 1 (1.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.66%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.44%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 30 (36.59%) Cucumber
1 30 (36.59%) Selenium
2 28 (34.15%) JIRA
3 17 (20.73%) Robot Framework
4 16 (19.51%) GitLab
4 16 (19.51%) Sonatype Nexus
5 15 (18.29%) Bitbucket
5 15 (18.29%) Maven
5 15 (18.29%) SonarQube
6 5 (6.10%) Git
6 5 (6.10%) Visual Studio
7 4 (4.88%) JMeter
7 4 (4.88%) Postman
8 3 (3.66%) Jenkins
9 2 (2.44%) Snyk
10 1 (1.22%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.22%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.22%) LabVIEW
General
1 30 (36.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 23 (28.05%) Social Skills
3 21 (25.61%) Law
4 17 (20.73%) Finance
5 15 (18.29%) Banking
5 15 (18.29%) Telecoms
6 11 (13.41%) Legal
7 6 (7.32%) Electronics
7 6 (7.32%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.44%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.44%) Games
8 2 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.44%) Retail
9 1 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (31.71%) Test Engineer
2 18 (21.95%) Test Automation Engineer
3 15 (18.29%) Senior
3 15 (18.29%) Software Engineer
4 10 (12.20%) Head of Development
4 10 (12.20%) Head of Product Development
4 10 (12.20%) QA Engineer
5 9 (10.98%) Senior QA Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) Senior Test Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) Test Technician
7 4 (4.88%) Development Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Test Development Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Senior Development Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (2.44%) Automation Test Analyst
9 2 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (2.44%) Lead
9 2 (2.44%) Product Lead
9 2 (2.44%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (32.93%) React
2 17 (20.73%) Kafka
3 15 (18.29%) CSS
3 15 (18.29%) HTML
3 15 (18.29%) JPA
3 15 (18.29%) Redux
3 15 (18.29%) Spring
3 15 (18.29%) Spring Boot
4 13 (15.85%) Hibernate
5 12 (14.63%) .NET
5 12 (14.63%) HTML5 Canvas
6 5 (6.10%) REST
6 5 (6.10%) RESTful
7 3 (3.66%) Playwright
8 2 (2.44%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (2.44%) ARM Templates
8 2 (2.44%) CSS3
8 2 (2.44%) HTML5
8 2 (2.44%) Jest
8 2 (2.44%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.51%) Product Ownership
2 15 (18.29%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (18.29%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.66%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.22%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.22%) IoT
5 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.22%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.95%) Linux
2 17 (20.73%) Windows
3 2 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (60.98%) DevOps
2 46 (56.10%) Agile
3 41 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 35 (42.68%) SDLC
5 29 (35.37%) Microservices
6 22 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (25.61%) Software Engineering
8 20 (24.39%) Containerisation
9 19 (23.17%) Mentoring
10 17 (20.73%) System Testing
11 15 (18.29%) Coaching
11 15 (18.29%) Front End Development
11 15 (18.29%) Full-Stack Development
11 15 (18.29%) Performance Optimisation
11 15 (18.29%) Test Management
11 15 (18.29%) User Experience
12 14 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (15.85%) Scrum
13 13 (15.85%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 45 (54.88%) JavaScript
2 26 (31.71%) Python
3 19 (23.17%) SQL
4 18 (21.95%) Bash
4 18 (21.95%) PowerShell
5 16 (19.51%) Java
6 15 (18.29%) C#
7 5 (6.10%) C++
8 3 (3.66%) Bicep
8 3 (3.66%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.22%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (26.83%) Degree
2 14 (17.07%) ISTQB
3 4 (4.88%) HNC
4 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.44%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (54.88%) QA
2 3 (3.66%) Accessibility
System Software
1 24 (29.27%) Docker
2 2 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (24.39%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.32%) Ansible
3 4 (4.88%) Terraform
4 2 (2.44%) Control-M
4 2 (2.44%) Grafana
4 2 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.22%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (18.29%) Solace
2 14 (17.07%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.44%) Aderant
3 2 (2.44%) AppDynamics
3 2 (2.44%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (2.44%) Black Duck
3 2 (2.44%) IBM
3 2 (2.44%) iManage
3 2 (2.44%) Intapp
3 2 (2.44%) MuleSoft
3 2 (2.44%) UiPath
3 2 (2.44%) VMware
4 1 (1.22%) DataCore