QA Automation Jobs in England

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 787 655 759
Rank change year-on-year -132 +104 -47
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 52 268 419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.061% 0.30% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.071% 0.31% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 51 192 185
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

QA 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,416 85,899 127,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.47% 95.61% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 53,988 50,919 73,096
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,308 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in England

QA Automation
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for QA Automation in England

QA Automation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation in England

QA Automation
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 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 -7 24 £60,000 +14.29% 10
South East -2 12 £47,500 -17.39% 2
South West -29 7 £60,000 -7.69%
North of England +30 6 £52,500 - 1
North West 0 6 £52,500 +16.67%
East of England -12 1 £38,000 - 1
QA Automation
UK

QA Automation
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 (1.92%) Confluence
1 1 (1.92%) MQSeries
1 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (40.38%) Azure
2 12 (23.08%) AWS
2 12 (23.08%) SaaS
3 6 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Functions
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (3.85%) BrowserStack
4 2 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.85%) GCP
4 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.85%) Serverless
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.92%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
1 2 (3.85%) Power BI
1 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.92%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (48.08%) Selenium
2 23 (44.23%) Cypress.io
3 18 (34.62%) Cucumber
4 15 (28.85%) Postman
5 10 (19.23%) Jenkins
6 9 (17.31%) Git
7 6 (11.54%) Appium
7 6 (11.54%) JIRA
7 6 (11.54%) JMeter
7 6 (11.54%) REST Assured
8 4 (7.69%) JUnit
9 3 (5.77%) Mockito
9 3 (5.77%) SpecFlow
9 3 (5.77%) WebDriver
10 2 (3.85%) CircleCI
10 2 (3.85%) GitLab
10 2 (3.85%) NUnit
10 2 (3.85%) SoapUI
10 2 (3.85%) Subversion
10 2 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.69%) Finance
3 3 (5.77%) Health Technology
4 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Front Office
5 1 (1.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Marketing
5 1 (1.92%) Publishing
5 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (67.31%) QA Engineer
2 20 (38.46%) QA Automation Engineer
3 15 (28.85%) Automation Engineer
4 12 (23.08%) Lead
5 10 (19.23%) QA Leader
6 6 (11.54%) Java Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Python Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Analyst
8 4 (7.69%) Cloud Automation Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Tester
10 2 (3.85%) Automation Test Lead
10 2 (3.85%) Automation Tester
10 2 (3.85%) Developer
10 2 (3.85%) QA Analyst
10 2 (3.85%) QA Tester
10 2 (3.85%) Senior QA Engineer
10 2 (3.85%) Test Analyst
10 2 (3.85%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.00%) Playwright
2 7 (13.46%) .NET
3 4 (7.69%) React
3 4 (7.69%) Spring
3 4 (7.69%) Swagger
3 4 (7.69%) Web Services
4 3 (5.77%) REST
4 3 (5.77%) Spring Boot
4 3 (5.77%) WireMock
5 2 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (3.85%) CSS
5 2 (3.85%) HTML
6 1 (1.92%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.92%) COM
6 1 (1.92%) Jest
6 1 (1.92%) OpenCV
6 1 (1.92%) Puppeteer
6 1 (1.92%) PySpark
6 1 (1.92%) pytest
6 1 (1.92%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.85%) Derivative
2 2 (3.85%) Hackathon
3 1 (1.92%) Bitcoin
3 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.92%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.77%) Android
2 2 (3.85%) Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Windows
3 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (98.08%) Test Automation
2 27 (51.92%) Agile
3 23 (44.23%) API Testing
4 22 (42.31%) CI/CD
5 19 (36.54%) BDD
6 14 (26.92%) DevOps
7 11 (21.15%) Coaching
8 10 (19.23%) Software Engineering
8 10 (19.23%) Test Scripting
8 10 (19.23%) Test Strategy
9 9 (17.31%) Scrum
9 9 (17.31%) Software Testing
10 8 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (15.38%) E-Commerce
10 8 (15.38%) SDET
11 7 (13.46%) Integration Testing
11 7 (13.46%) Manual Testing
11 7 (13.46%) Performance Testing
11 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (13.46%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 24 (46.15%) Java
2 12 (23.08%) C#
2 12 (23.08%) Python
2 12 (23.08%) SQL
3 11 (21.15%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.92%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (3.85%) Degree
1 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.92%) ISEB
2 1 (1.92%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (11.54%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
1 3 (5.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.92%) Atlassian
2 1 (1.92%) Databricks
2 1 (1.92%) IBM
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle
2 1 (1.92%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.92%) Solace
2 1 (1.92%) Splunk
2 1 (1.92%) TIBCO
2 1 (1.92%) VMware