QA Automation Jobs in England

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring QA Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA Automation over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 661 788 656
Rank change year-on-year +127 -132 +104
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 30 52 268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.061% 0.061% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.065% 0.071% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 24 51 192
10th Percentile £43,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £47,188 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £63,125 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £74,625 £72,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

QA 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,933 73,419 85,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.08% 85.47% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 24,038 53,988 50,920
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,308
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 12 May 2025.

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 12 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
London +105 15 £57,500 -4.17% 29
East Midlands - 7 £57,500 - 1
Midlands - 7 £57,500 - 2
South West +103 4 £62,500 +4.17% 3
South East +88 3 £47,500 - 13
East of England +46 1 £55,000 +44.74% 7
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 (3.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) AWS
2 7 (23.33%) BrowserStack
3 6 (20.00%) Azure
3 6 (20.00%) Sauce Labs
4 5 (16.67%) SaaS
5 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.00%) GCP
5 3 (10.00%) GitHub
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.33%) MinIO
7 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (50.00%) Selenium
2 7 (23.33%) Appium
2 7 (23.33%) Postman
3 6 (20.00%) SpecFlow
4 5 (16.67%) Git
4 5 (16.67%) JUnit
4 5 (16.67%) TestNG
5 4 (13.33%) Cucumber
5 4 (13.33%) JIRA
6 3 (10.00%) Cypress.io
6 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
6 3 (10.00%) WebDriver
7 2 (6.67%) JMeter
7 2 (6.67%) REST Assured
8 1 (3.33%) LoadRunner
8 1 (3.33%) Maven
8 1 (3.33%) NeoLoad
8 1 (3.33%) SoapUI
8 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Legal
4 3 (10.00%) Games
4 3 (10.00%) iGaming
4 3 (10.00%) Publishing
5 1 (3.33%) Billing
5 1 (3.33%) Finance
5 1 (3.33%) Law
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
5 1 (3.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) QA Engineer
2 11 (36.67%) Automation Engineer
2 11 (36.67%) QA Automation Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Lead
3 5 (16.67%) Senior
4 4 (13.33%) Automation Tester
4 4 (13.33%) Python Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) QA Automation Tester
4 4 (13.33%) QA Tester
4 4 (13.33%) Tester
5 3 (10.00%) Architect
5 3 (10.00%) QA Test Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Software QA Tester
5 3 (10.00%) Software Tester
5 3 (10.00%) Technical Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Test Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Android Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) REST
2 5 (16.67%) .NET
2 5 (16.67%) pytest
3 4 (13.33%) Playwright
4 3 (10.00%) Swagger
5 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (6.67%) Blazor
5 2 (6.67%) gRPC
5 2 (6.67%) WPF
6 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.33%) CSS
6 1 (3.33%) Gherkin
6 1 (3.33%) JSON
6 1 (3.33%) Node.js
6 1 (3.33%) OpenCV
6 1 (3.33%) SOAP
6 1 (3.33%) WebSockets
6 1 (3.33%) XML
6 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Mobile Games
2 3 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (10.00%) Sports Betting
3 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.67%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Android
2 3 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 14 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 13 (43.33%) Agile
4 9 (30.00%) Test Scripting
5 6 (20.00%) Manual Testing
5 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (16.67%) SDLC
6 5 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 5 (16.67%) Test Strategy
7 4 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (13.33%) DevOps
7 4 (13.33%) E-Commerce
7 4 (13.33%) Test Planning
8 3 (10.00%) API Design
8 3 (10.00%) API Testing
8 3 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (10.00%) Defect Tracking
8 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
8 3 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (10.00%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 12 (40.00%) C#
2 6 (20.00%) Java
2 6 (20.00%) Python
3 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.67%) SQL
6 1 (3.33%) Go
6 1 (3.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
1 3 (10.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.33%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Argo
2 2 (6.67%) Kustomize
2 2 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (3.33%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Google
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft