QA Automation Tester Jobs in England

Automation QA Tester
UK > England

The median Automation QA Tester salary in England is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 816 920 1076
Rank change year-on-year +104 +156 -224
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Automation Tester 5 34 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.006% 0.036% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.039% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 5 30 28
10th Percentile - £37,375 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £120,000 £65,938 £60,000
90th Percentile - £67,625 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +29.41%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 79,551 87,358 124,629
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.64% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 59,915 55,003 76,174
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,190 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% +0.42% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

QA Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured QA Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Tester in England

QA Automation Tester
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Automation Tester in England.

Salary trend for QA Automation Tester in England

QA Automation Tester
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation Tester in England over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation Tester in England

QA Automation Tester
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation Tester within the 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
London +148 3 £120,000 +92.00%
North of England +54 2 £48,750 +8.33% 1
North West +7 1 £42,500 -5.56% 1
North East - 1 £55,000 -
QA Automation Tester
UK

QA Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, QA Automation Tester job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring QA Automation Tester in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) QA
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) Playwright
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Postman
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) Front Office
3 2 (40.00%) JMeter
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Electronic Trading
3 2 (40.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) API Testing
3 2 (40.00%) QA Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) SpecFlow
3 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (20.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 1 (20.00%) User Stories
4 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
4 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing

QA Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) JMeter
2 2 (40.00%) Postman
2 2 (40.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (20.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (40.00%) Front Office
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) jQuery
2 1 (20.00%) PySpark
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Swagger
2 1 (20.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) API Testing
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Electronic Trading
3 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) QA Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (20.00%) System Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Usability Testing
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Scala
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle