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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 102 115
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 -82
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 66 68 119
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.06% 2.26% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 2.45% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 41 35 86
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,200 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £53,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68,750 £64,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,750 £68,901
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -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 4,345 2,779 5,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 69.60% 92.48% 77.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,974 1,394 3,933
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,200 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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
Cambridgeshire -9 25 £50,000 -5.66% 11
Hertfordshire -13 17 £62,500 +9.65% 23
Suffolk +26 9 £45,000 -15.09% 3
Essex -19 7 £51,250 -3.30% 3
Norfolk -24 6 £60,000 +47.24% 8
Bedfordshire -9 2 £45,000 -33.33% 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 (1.52%) CMS
1 1 (1.52%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (3.03%) Towers Watson Igloo
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (21.21%) Azure
2 8 (12.12%) Power Platform
3 6 (9.09%) AWS
4 5 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.58%) GCP
4 5 (7.58%) SaaS
5 4 (6.06%) Azure Event Grid
5 4 (6.06%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (6.06%) GitHub
5 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (4.55%) Google Analytics
6 3 (4.55%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (3.03%) Serverless
7 2 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) Broadband
2 3 (4.55%) SMS
3 2 (3.03%) Network Security
4 1 (1.52%) Bluetooth
4 1 (1.52%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.52%) Wireless
4 1 (1.52%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.06%) Power BI
3 3 (4.55%) BigQuery
3 3 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (4.55%) Semantic Layer
4 2 (3.03%) MySQL
4 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.52%) Metadata
5 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 6 (9.09%) Selenium
3 4 (6.06%) JIRA
3 4 (6.06%) LabVIEW
4 3 (4.55%) Git
4 3 (4.55%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (3.03%) Ranorex
5 2 (3.03%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.52%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (1.52%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.52%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.52%) JMeter
6 1 (1.52%) Postman
6 1 (1.52%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.52%) SpecFlow
General
1 12 (18.18%) Manufacturing
2 11 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.12%) Marketing
5 7 (10.61%) Finance
6 5 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (7.58%) Retail
7 4 (6.06%) Electronics
7 4 (6.06%) Law
8 3 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (3.03%) Advertising
9 2 (3.03%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.52%) Automotive
10 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.52%) Games
10 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (34.85%) Senior
2 17 (25.76%) Test Engineer
3 13 (19.70%) Test Automation Engineer
4 11 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
4 11 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 9 (13.64%) Developer
5 9 (13.64%) Lead
6 8 (12.12%) Software Test Engineer
7 7 (10.61%) Architect
7 7 (10.61%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Python Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) C# Software Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Dynamics 365 Architect
9 4 (6.06%) Senior Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Supply Chain Architect
9 4 (6.06%) Test Leader
10 3 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.58%) Node.js
2 4 (6.06%) CSS
2 4 (6.06%) React
3 3 (4.55%) Django
3 3 (4.55%) HTML
4 2 (3.03%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.03%) Flask
4 2 (3.03%) NestJS
4 2 (3.03%) Next.js
4 2 (3.03%) Playwright
4 2 (3.03%) WPF
5 1 (1.52%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.52%) Micronaut
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.52%) pytest
5 1 (1.52%) REST
5 1 (1.52%) RESTful
5 1 (1.52%) Spring
5 1 (1.52%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.52%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.61%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.06%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (6.06%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.55%) IoT
5 3 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.52%) Analogue Electronics
7 1 (1.52%) ARM Cortex
7 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.52%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.52%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.03%) Linux
1 2 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 21 (31.82%) Agile
3 19 (28.79%) CI/CD
3 19 (28.79%) Software Testing
4 18 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (22.73%) Mentoring
6 14 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (21.21%) Roadmaps
7 13 (19.70%) DevOps
8 11 (16.67%) AI
9 10 (15.15%) Analytics
10 9 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (13.64%) Validation
11 8 (12.12%) Microservices
11 8 (12.12%) Performance Optimisation
11 8 (12.12%) Test Strategy
12 7 (10.61%) Computer Science
12 7 (10.61%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (10.61%) User Experience
12 7 (10.61%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.30%) Python
2 10 (15.15%) C#
3 9 (13.64%) SQL
4 7 (10.61%) C
4 7 (10.61%) C++
5 6 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.55%) PL/SQL
6 3 (4.55%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.03%) Bash
7 2 (3.03%) Embedded C
7 2 (3.03%) Embedded C++
7 2 (3.03%) Java
8 1 (1.52%) Bicep
8 1 (1.52%) Go
8 1 (1.52%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 18 (27.27%) Degree
2 4 (6.06%) DBS Check
3 3 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.03%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.52%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.52%) ISEB
5 1 (1.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.52%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (25.76%) QA
2 7 (10.61%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.55%) GDPR
3 3 (4.55%) PERC
4 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (1.52%) Automotive SPICE
5 1 (1.52%) JTAG
System Software
1 8 (12.12%) Firmware
2 3 (4.55%) Docker
2 3 (4.55%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (9.09%) Terraform
2 4 (6.06%) Ansible
3 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.52%) Functional Safety
4 1 (1.52%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (7.58%) Google
1 5 (7.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) Oracle
3 3 (4.55%) dotdigital
3 3 (4.55%) Informatica
3 3 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 2 (3.03%) Pega
5 1 (1.52%) New Relic