Test Automation Jobs in the East of England

Automated Testing
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 32 61
Rank change year-on-year -86 +29 -16
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 104 445 311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.73% 7.82% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 8.23% 5.19%
Number of salaries quoted 77 111 108
10th Percentile £32,900 £39,264 £32,275
25th Percentile £36,250 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +22.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £90,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £95,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +0.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,908 5,406 5,997
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 81.64% 95.01% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,672 2,336 2,716
10th Percentile £25,809 £29,000 £28,125
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in the East of England.

Salary trend for Test Automation in the East of England

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 18 April 2024.

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 18 April 2024. 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 -34 42 £51,250 -21.15% 28
Hertfordshire -58 29 £57,500 -32.35% 15
Essex -12 22 £36,500 -45.93% 14
Norfolk -41 5 £31,500 -44.00% 1
Bedfordshire -14 4 £53,250 +42.00% 4
Suffolk -11 2 £47,500 -47.22% 2
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 4 (3.85%) CMS
2 1 (0.96%) Apache
2 1 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.96%) Simulink
3 1 (0.96%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 9 (8.65%) Magento
2 1 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.96%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 13 (12.50%) GitHub
2 8 (7.69%) AWS
3 4 (3.85%) Azure
3 4 (3.85%) Serverless
4 3 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (2.88%) Amazon S3
4 3 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (1.92%) npm
5 2 (1.92%) Yarn
6 1 (0.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.96%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.96%) GCP
6 1 (0.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.77%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.85%) RS-232
2 4 (3.85%) SSH
3 1 (0.96%) ATM
3 1 (0.96%) Broadband
3 1 (0.96%) DHCP
3 1 (0.96%) DNS
3 1 (0.96%) Firewall
3 1 (0.96%) HTTP
3 1 (0.96%) VLAN
3 1 (0.96%) VPN
3 1 (0.96%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.54%) MySQL
2 7 (6.73%) MariaDB
2 7 (6.73%) MongoDB
2 7 (6.73%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (5.77%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.85%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.92%) Redis
7 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (18.27%) JIRA
2 18 (17.31%) Git
3 14 (13.46%) Appium
4 13 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 11 (10.58%) UI Automator
6 6 (5.77%) Selenium
6 6 (5.77%) Trac
7 5 (4.81%) Zephyr
8 4 (3.85%) Cucumber
8 4 (3.85%) Subversion
9 3 (2.88%) Artifactory
9 3 (2.88%) LabVIEW
9 3 (2.88%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.92%) GitLab
10 2 (1.92%) JMeter
11 1 (0.96%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.96%) NeoLoad
11 1 (0.96%) Phabricator
11 1 (0.96%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.96%) WebDriver
General
1 27 (25.96%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.35%) Automotive
2 17 (16.35%) Electronics
3 11 (10.58%) Manufacturing
4 7 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.73%) Retail
5 6 (5.77%) Finance
6 5 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.88%) Games
8 3 (2.88%) Marketing
8 3 (2.88%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.92%) Back Office
9 2 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.92%) Wearables
10 1 (0.96%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.96%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.96%) Legal
10 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (25.96%) Developer
2 15 (14.42%) Lead
3 14 (13.46%) Test Engineer
4 13 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 11 (10.58%) PHP Developer
6 10 (9.62%) Team Leader
7 9 (8.65%) Analyst
8 7 (6.73%) Test Analyst
9 6 (5.77%) Embedded Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Magento Developer
9 6 (5.77%) Python Developer
9 6 (5.77%) Senior
9 6 (5.77%) Tester
10 5 (4.81%) Software Team Leader
11 4 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) QA Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (19.23%) HTML
2 17 (16.35%) CSS
3 9 (8.65%) Django
3 9 (8.65%) Node.js
4 6 (5.77%) HTML5
4 6 (5.77%) OpenLayers
5 5 (4.81%) .NET
5 5 (4.81%) Yocto
6 4 (3.85%) CSS3
6 4 (3.85%) JSON
6 4 (3.85%) Laravel
6 4 (3.85%) LLVM
6 4 (3.85%) Sass
6 4 (3.85%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (3.85%) Vue
7 3 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.88%) OpenID
7 3 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.88%) REST
7 3 (2.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 7 (6.73%) IoT
2 7 (6.73%) Smartphone
3 5 (4.81%) Analogue Electronics
3 5 (4.81%) Device Driver
3 5 (4.81%) Robotics
4 3 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.88%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.92%) BBC
5 2 (1.92%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.96%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.96%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (0.96%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.96%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.96%) FPGA
6 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (34.62%) Linux
2 10 (9.62%) Windows
3 8 (7.69%) Mac OS
4 7 (6.73%) Android
5 6 (5.77%) Unix
6 4 (3.85%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (3.85%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (2.88%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.92%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (32.69%) Agile
2 27 (25.96%) Software Testing
3 26 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 19 (18.27%) DevOps
5 18 (17.31%) Manual Testing
6 16 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (14.42%) Full Stack Development
8 14 (13.46%) Test Strategy
9 12 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (11.54%) Test Scripting
9 12 (11.54%) User Experience
10 11 (10.58%) E-Commerce
10 11 (10.58%) Integration Testing
10 11 (10.58%) Validation
11 10 (9.62%) Computer Science
11 10 (9.62%) OO
11 10 (9.62%) Project Management
12 8 (7.69%) Line Management
12 8 (7.69%) TDD
12 8 (7.69%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 35 (33.65%) Python
2 22 (21.15%) PHP
3 16 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 15 (14.42%) C
5 11 (10.58%) C#
6 8 (7.69%) Bash
7 7 (6.73%) Java
8 6 (5.77%) MATLAB
9 5 (4.81%) C++
10 4 (3.85%) Shell Script
10 4 (3.85%) SQL
10 4 (3.85%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.88%) Groovy
11 3 (2.88%) Perl
12 1 (0.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (30.77%) Degree
2 8 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.77%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.88%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.96%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.96%) CCNA
6 1 (0.96%) CCNP
6 1 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.96%) HNC
6 1 (0.96%) ISEB
6 1 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.96%) JNCIA
6 1 (0.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (19.23%) QA
2 1 (0.96%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.96%) JTAG
2 1 (0.96%) NIST
2 1 (0.96%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (11.54%) Docker
2 6 (5.77%) Firmware
3 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (7.69%) Terraform
2 7 (6.73%) Ansible
3 4 (3.85%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.88%) Packer
4 3 (2.88%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.96%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.96%) Grafana
5 1 (0.96%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.96%) Iperf
5 1 (0.96%) Nmap
5 1 (0.96%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (3.85%) Atlassian
1 4 (3.85%) IBM
1 4 (3.85%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.88%) AppDynamics
3 2 (1.92%) Google
4 1 (0.96%) Apple
4 1 (0.96%) BT
4 1 (0.96%) HP
4 1 (0.96%) MathWorks
4 1 (0.96%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.96%) Splunk