Test Automation Engineer Jobs in England

Automation Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Automation Test Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 556 808 757
Rank change year-on-year +252 -51 +63
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 99 35 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.041% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.043% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 27 25 146
10th Percentile £42,000 £28,900 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,250 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -22.73% -
75th Percentile £66,375 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,000 £62,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -18.18% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 41,862 80,543 84,589
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.48% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24,654 60,279 53,593
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,626
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,942 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Engineer in England

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Test Automation Engineer in England

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation Engineer in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation Engineer in England

Test Automation Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East +128 36 £60,750 +62.00% 7
Midlands +82 18 £52,500 +31.25% 2
East of England +63 17 £55,000 +46.67% 4
London +110 16 £57,500 +4.55% 6
East Midlands - 15 £52,500 - 2
South West +120 9 £60,000 - 9
North of England +77 9 £65,000 +52.94% 7
North West +30 6 £71,250 +62.86% 5
Yorkshire +75 3 £64,900 +52.71% 1
West Midlands +51 3 - -
Test Automation Engineer
UK

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Test Automation Engineer 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 Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 99 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 79 (79.80%) QA
3 78 (78.79%) Python
4 75 (75.76%) JavaScript
5 70 (70.71%) Linux
5 70 (70.71%) DevOps
6 69 (69.70%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (68.69%) Social Skills
7 68 (68.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 68 (68.69%) System Testing
8 67 (67.68%) Cucumber
8 67 (67.68%) Degree
9 66 (66.67%) Test Management
10 65 (65.66%) Mentoring
10 65 (65.66%) Coaching
10 65 (65.66%) Robot Framework
11 64 (64.65%) Linux Command Line
11 64 (64.65%) Bash
11 64 (64.65%) PowerShell
11 64 (64.65%) Telecoms
11 64 (64.65%) TCP/IP
11 64 (64.65%) VPN
11 64 (64.65%) Windows
12 15 (15.15%) Selenium
13 13 (13.13%) SQL
14 11 (11.11%) Agile
15 10 (10.10%) Java
15 10 (10.10%) Security Cleared
15 10 (10.10%) Postman
16 9 (9.09%) CI/CD

Test Automation Engineer 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 (1.01%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.01%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.07%) Azure
2 4 (4.04%) AWS
3 2 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.01%) BrowserStack
4 1 (1.01%) GCP
4 1 (1.01%) GitHub
4 1 (1.01%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.01%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (64.65%) TCP/IP
1 64 (64.65%) VPN
2 1 (1.01%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.01%) SAN
2 1 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.01%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.04%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.01%) Big Data
2 1 (1.01%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.01%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.01%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 67 (67.68%) Cucumber
2 65 (65.66%) Robot Framework
3 15 (15.15%) Selenium
4 10 (10.10%) Postman
5 9 (9.09%) SoapUI
6 5 (5.05%) Cypress.io
6 5 (5.05%) Git
7 4 (4.04%) Jenkins
8 3 (3.03%) Appium
8 3 (3.03%) JIRA
8 3 (3.03%) JMeter
9 2 (2.02%) GitLab
9 2 (2.02%) JUnit
9 2 (2.02%) MSTest
9 2 (2.02%) NUnit
10 1 (1.01%) LoadRunner
10 1 (1.01%) Mocha
10 1 (1.01%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.01%) TestRail
10 1 (1.01%) WebDriver
General
1 68 (68.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 68 (68.69%) Social Skills
2 64 (64.65%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.02%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.02%) Tech for Good
4 1 (1.01%) Banking
4 1 (1.01%) Billing
4 1 (1.01%) Finance
4 1 (1.01%) Law
4 1 (1.01%) Legal
4 1 (1.01%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.05%) pytest
2 4 (4.04%) Playwright
3 3 (3.03%) .NET
3 3 (3.03%) SOAP
4 2 (2.02%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.02%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.02%) Django
4 2 (2.02%) REST
5 1 (1.01%) Apache Cordova
5 1 (1.01%) CSS
5 1 (1.01%) HTML
5 1 (1.01%) Ionic Framework
5 1 (1.01%) Jest
5 1 (1.01%) JSON
5 1 (1.01%) Node.js
5 1 (1.01%) OpenCV
5 1 (1.01%) RESTful
5 1 (1.01%) Web Services
5 1 (1.01%) XML
5 1 (1.01%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (64.65%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (2.02%) Raspberry Pi
3 1 (1.01%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.01%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (1.01%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.01%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 70 (70.71%) Linux
2 64 (64.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 70 (70.71%) DevOps
3 69 (69.70%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (68.69%) System Testing
5 66 (66.67%) Test Management
6 65 (65.66%) Coaching
6 65 (65.66%) Mentoring
7 11 (11.11%) Agile
8 9 (9.09%) CI/CD
9 8 (8.08%) Software Testing
9 8 (8.08%) TDD
10 7 (7.07%) Test Scripting
10 7 (7.07%) Validation
11 6 (6.06%) API Testing
11 6 (6.06%) Manual Testing
11 6 (6.06%) Software Engineering
12 5 (5.05%) Artificial Intelligence
12 5 (5.05%) Continuous Integration
12 5 (5.05%) End-to-End Testing
12 5 (5.05%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 78 (78.79%) Python
2 75 (75.76%) JavaScript
3 64 (64.65%) Bash
3 64 (64.65%) PowerShell
4 13 (13.13%) SQL
5 10 (10.10%) Java
6 6 (6.06%) C#
7 5 (5.05%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.03%) Go
8 3 (3.03%) PHP
9 2 (2.02%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.01%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 67 (67.68%) Degree
2 10 (10.10%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.07%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.04%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.03%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.01%) CISSP
6 1 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (79.80%) QA
2 4 (4.04%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (5.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.03%) Terraform
2 2 (2.02%) Ansible
2 2 (2.02%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.01%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.01%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.01%) Puppet
3 1 (1.01%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (1.01%) Brocade
1 1 (1.01%) Cisco
1 1 (1.01%) CyberSource
1 1 (1.01%) Databricks
1 1 (1.01%) EMC
1 1 (1.01%) HP
1 1 (1.01%) IBM
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft
1 1 (1.01%) VMware