Test Automation Engineer Jobs in England

Automation Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Automation Test Engineer salary in England is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 800 771 826
Rank change year-on-year -29 +55 -193
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 37 170 328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.043% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.20% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 26 144 271
10th Percentile £30,125 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £36,563 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £79,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%

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 80,754 84,293 127,933
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.52% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 60,385 53,462 75,679
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 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 +54 14 £55,000 - 8
South East +1 8 £37,500 -25.00% 3
South West -47 5 £55,000 +15.79% 3
North of England +39 4 £42,500 -26.09% 1
East of England +19 3 £37,500 +2.74% 4
West Midlands +12 3 £40,000 -38.46%
Midlands +1 3 £40,000 -38.46%
Yorkshire +86 2 £42,500 -46.03% 1
North West +16 2 £43,750 -7.89%
Test Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 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 37 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 24 (64.86%) Agile
3 17 (45.95%) QA
3 17 (45.95%) Selenium
4 15 (40.54%) Test Strategy
5 14 (37.84%) Cucumber
5 14 (37.84%) Python
5 14 (37.84%) CI/CD
6 13 (35.14%) BDD
7 12 (32.43%) AWS
7 12 (32.43%) Java
8 11 (29.73%) JIRA
8 11 (29.73%) Test Scripting
9 10 (27.03%) Software Testing
10 9 (24.32%) ISTQB
11 8 (21.62%) TDD
11 8 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (21.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (18.92%) API Testing
12 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
12 7 (18.92%) Azure
12 7 (18.92%) Jenkins
12 7 (18.92%) DevOps
12 7 (18.92%) Manual Testing
13 6 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
13 6 (16.22%) Regression Testing
13 6 (16.22%) Finance
13 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
13 6 (16.22%) SDLC

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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (32.43%) AWS
2 7 (18.92%) Azure
3 5 (13.51%) GitHub
4 4 (10.81%) Datadog
4 4 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (10.81%) SaaS
5 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.70%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) 3G
1 1 (2.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.41%) MySQL
2 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (45.95%) Selenium
2 14 (37.84%) Cucumber
3 11 (29.73%) JIRA
4 7 (18.92%) Jenkins
5 5 (13.51%) Postman
5 5 (13.51%) SpecFlow
6 4 (10.81%) Appium
6 4 (10.81%) Cypress.io
6 4 (10.81%) JBehave
6 4 (10.81%) TeamCity
7 2 (5.41%) Git
7 2 (5.41%) JMeter
7 2 (5.41%) JUnit
7 2 (5.41%) UI Automator
8 1 (2.70%) HP UFT
8 1 (2.70%) LoadRunner
8 1 (2.70%) MSTest
8 1 (2.70%) Subversion
8 1 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (2.70%) TestComplete
General
1 8 (21.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Finance
4 4 (10.81%) Retail
5 3 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Automotive
6 2 (5.41%) Banking
6 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.70%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) Playwright
2 4 (10.81%) Gherkin
3 2 (5.41%) pytest
3 2 (5.41%) REST
3 2 (5.41%) Spring
3 2 (5.41%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.70%) Behat
4 1 (2.70%) HTML
4 1 (2.70%) HTML5
4 1 (2.70%) Kafka
4 1 (2.70%) Node.js
4 1 (2.70%) Puppeteer
4 1 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.70%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (2.70%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Data Centre
1 4 (10.81%) Embedded Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.41%) Client/Server
2 2 (5.41%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) Bitcoin
3 1 (2.70%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Android
1 4 (10.81%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.41%) Mac OS
3 2 (5.41%) Mac OS X
3 2 (5.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 24 (64.86%) Agile
3 15 (40.54%) Test Strategy
4 14 (37.84%) CI/CD
5 13 (35.14%) BDD
6 11 (29.73%) Test Scripting
7 10 (27.03%) Software Testing
8 8 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (21.62%) TDD
9 7 (18.92%) API Testing
9 7 (18.92%) DevOps
9 7 (18.92%) Manual Testing
10 6 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (16.22%) QA Automation
10 6 (16.22%) Regression Testing
10 6 (16.22%) SDLC
11 5 (13.51%) Non-Functional Testing
11 5 (13.51%) Scrum
11 5 (13.51%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (37.84%) Python
2 12 (32.43%) Java
3 5 (13.51%) C#
4 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.41%) C++
5 2 (5.41%) Go
6 1 (2.70%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) ISTQB
2 4 (10.81%) ISEB
2 4 (10.81%) ISEB Practitioner
3 3 (8.11%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (45.95%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) Consul
2 1 (2.70%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (5.41%) YouTube
2 1 (2.70%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (2.70%) Google
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft