Test Automation Jobs in East Sussex

Automated Testing
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in East Sussex requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 44 40
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -7
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 12 28 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in East Sussex 2.84% 3.99% 6.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.12% 4.67% 7.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11 9 38
10th Percentile - £48,500 £47,593
25th Percentile £41,250 £67,500 £53,258
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £48,750 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £56,250 - -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,750
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.95% +3.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 385 600 881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in East Sussex 91.02% 85.47% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 205 425 564
10th Percentile £28,350 £27,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,000 £78,250 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,790 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.58% -9.09% -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in East Sussex.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in East Sussex

Test Automation
Salary Trend in East Sussex

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in East Sussex.

Salary trend for Test Automation in East Sussex

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in East Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in East Sussex over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in East Sussex

Test Automation
Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Brighton +28 11 £47,500 -33.33% 6
Hastings - 1 - -
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East Sussex 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Cucumber
2 6 (50.00%) Postman
3 5 (41.67%) Appium
3 5 (41.67%) Cypress.io
3 5 (41.67%) TestComplete
4 2 (16.67%) Selenium
5 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (8.33%) GitLab
5 1 (8.33%) JIRA
5 1 (8.33%) Maven
5 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
5 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
5 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Software QA Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Analyst
3 4 (33.33%) QA Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Gherkin
2 1 (8.33%) CSS
2 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) JPA
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) pytest
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) Redux
2 1 (8.33%) SOAP
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Android
1 5 (41.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) Regression Testing
3 6 (50.00%) Agile
4 5 (41.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (41.67%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (41.67%) E-Commerce
4 5 (41.67%) Exploratory Testing
4 5 (41.67%) Load Testing
4 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (41.67%) Software Testing
4 5 (41.67%) User Experience
4 5 (41.67%) UX Design
5 2 (16.67%) SDLC
6 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (8.33%) Defect Tracking
6 1 (8.33%) Fintech
6 1 (8.33%) Front End Development
6 1 (8.33%) Microservices
6 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (8.33%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) JavaScript
2 7 (58.33%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) Go
4 1 (8.33%) PHP
4 1 (8.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Solace