Test Automation Jobs in England

Automated Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 106 37
Rank change year-on-year +5 -69 -2
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 1,486 2,158 5,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.02% 2.51% 6.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 2.94% 7.05%
Number of salaries quoted 863 1,478 2,564
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,231 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £76,840 £73,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £101,185
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Test 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 46,314 73,328 84,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.13% 85.41% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,693 53,833 50,206
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,000 £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 £76,000 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in England

Test Automation
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in England

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in England

Test 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 Test Automation within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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 +4 404 £70,000 - 690
South East +8 323 £60,000 +9.09% 359
North of England +7 321 £55,000 - 291
North West -14 225 £53,750 -2.27% 165
Midlands +16 194 £57,500 +15.00% 151
South West +52 160 £59,000 +4.42% 143
West Midlands -5 105 £60,000 +14.29% 83
East Midlands +55 89 £52,500 +10.53% 65
East of England +15 75 £57,000 +3.64% 106
Yorkshire +26 67 £50,223 -8.69% 93
North East +40 29 £59,002 -1.66% 36
Test Automation
UK

Test 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
1 140 (9.42%) Confluence
2 16 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.54%) CMS
5 7 (0.47%) SAS
6 6 (0.40%) Apache
7 5 (0.34%) JBoss
7 5 (0.34%) Liferay
8 4 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
8 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.27%) nginx
9 3 (0.20%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.20%) CICS
9 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.13%) Drupal
11 1 (0.067%) Moodle
11 1 (0.067%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.067%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.067%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.067%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.067%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.067%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.067%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 14 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.20%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.13%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.13%) Shopify
5 1 (0.067%) Endur
5 1 (0.067%) Magento
5 1 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.067%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 540 (36.34%) Azure
2 437 (29.41%) AWS
3 233 (15.68%) GCP
4 139 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
5 81 (5.45%) Serverless
6 76 (5.11%) GitHub
7 60 (4.04%) SaaS
8 54 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (3.03%) PaaS
10 39 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
11 31 (2.09%) Amazon S3
12 29 (1.95%) Power Platform
13 24 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
14 21 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
15 20 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
16 19 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
17 18 (1.21%) Power Automate
18 17 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
19 16 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
20 15 (1.01%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 71 (4.78%) VPN
2 70 (4.71%) TCP/IP
3 18 (1.21%) 5G
3 18 (1.21%) SD-WAN
3 18 (1.21%) WAN
4 14 (0.94%) Bluetooth
5 13 (0.87%) Network Security
6 10 (0.67%) Firewall
7 7 (0.47%) HTTP
7 7 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (0.40%) DNS
8 6 (0.40%) SAN
8 6 (0.40%) Wireless
9 5 (0.34%) BGP
9 5 (0.34%) Multicast
9 5 (0.34%) SSL
9 5 (0.34%) VLAN
10 4 (0.27%) Broadband
10 4 (0.27%) Internet
10 4 (0.27%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 255 (17.16%) SQL Server
2 76 (5.11%) NoSQL
3 62 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 48 (3.23%) MySQL
6 45 (3.03%) MongoDB
7 38 (2.56%) DynamoDB
8 24 (1.62%) Power BI
9 23 (1.55%) Big Data
10 15 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (0.67%) Cloud Spanner
12 10 (0.67%) DB2
13 8 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (0.54%) Data Lake
13 8 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (0.54%) RDBMS
14 7 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (0.40%) Oracle Database
16 4 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 380 (25.57%) Selenium
2 348 (23.42%) JIRA
3 311 (20.93%) Cucumber
4 242 (16.29%) GitLab
5 229 (15.41%) SonarQube
6 225 (15.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 224 (15.07%) Maven
8 205 (13.80%) Bitbucket
9 195 (13.12%) Git
10 106 (7.13%) Jenkins
11 87 (5.85%) Postman
12 72 (4.85%) Robot Framework
13 63 (4.24%) Cypress.io
14 44 (2.96%) JUnit
15 43 (2.89%) Appium
15 43 (2.89%) JMeter
16 30 (2.02%) SpecFlow
17 25 (1.68%) SoapUI
18 21 (1.41%) eggPlant
18 21 (1.41%) TestNG
General
1 492 (33.11%) Finance
2 402 (27.05%) Social Skills
3 328 (22.07%) Banking
4 317 (21.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 127 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
6 112 (7.54%) Retail
7 98 (6.59%) Investment Banking
8 90 (6.06%) Corporate Banking
9 76 (5.11%) Telecoms
10 52 (3.50%) Law
11 49 (3.30%) Electronics
12 46 (3.10%) Public Sector
13 44 (2.96%) Legal
14 38 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
15 32 (2.15%) Games
15 32 (2.15%) Manufacturing
16 30 (2.02%) Front Office
17 25 (1.68%) Marketing
18 24 (1.62%) Aerospace
19 20 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 371 (24.97%) Software Engineer
2 364 (24.50%) Senior
3 227 (15.28%) Developer
4 189 (12.72%) Test Engineer
5 188 (12.65%) Lead
6 115 (7.74%) Senior Developer
7 97 (6.53%) Analyst
7 97 (6.53%) Test Automation Engineer
8 83 (5.59%) QA Engineer
9 77 (5.18%) Senior Software Engineer
10 63 (4.24%) Test Analyst
11 59 (3.97%) DevOps Engineer
11 59 (3.97%) Senior Test Engineer
12 56 (3.77%) Software Test Engineer
13 49 (3.30%) Tester
14 47 (3.16%) Senior Software Test Engineer
14 47 (3.16%) Software Developer
15 41 (2.76%) Automation Engineer
16 39 (2.62%) Software Team Leader
16 39 (2.62%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (22.01%) React
2 286 (19.25%) CSS
3 285 (19.18%) HTML
4 273 (18.37%) Spring Boot
5 251 (16.89%) Kafka
6 249 (16.76%) Spring
7 201 (13.53%) Redux
8 200 (13.46%) JPA
9 183 (12.31%) RESTful
10 169 (11.37%) REST
11 123 (8.28%) .NET
12 122 (8.21%) Hibernate
13 110 (7.40%) HTML5
14 107 (7.20%) Jest
15 101 (6.80%) CSS3
16 97 (6.53%) Sass
17 86 (5.79%) Node.js
18 74 (4.98%) Playwright
19 62 (4.17%) AngularJS
20 43 (2.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 255 (17.16%) Product Ownership
2 209 (14.06%) Enterprise Software
3 70 (4.71%) Linux Command Line
4 55 (3.70%) Algorithms
5 54 (3.63%) Cloud Native
6 49 (3.30%) Management Information System
7 44 (2.96%) Mobile App
8 40 (2.69%) Public Cloud
9 34 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
10 33 (2.22%) Data Structures
11 30 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.95%) Onboarding
13 27 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
13 27 (1.82%) Equities
14 24 (1.62%) e-Learning
15 23 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
16 22 (1.48%) Security Posture
17 21 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
18 19 (1.28%) Satnav
18 19 (1.28%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 178 (11.98%) Linux
2 114 (7.67%) Windows
3 36 (2.42%) Apple iOS
4 32 (2.15%) Android
5 20 (1.35%) Unix
6 6 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.34%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 806 (54.24%) Agile
2 601 (40.44%) DevOps
3 595 (40.04%) CI/CD
4 488 (32.84%) Software Engineering
5 386 (25.98%) Mentoring
6 374 (25.17%) Microservices
7 365 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
8 361 (24.29%) Containerisation
9 344 (23.15%) SDLC
10 327 (22.01%) Software Testing
11 298 (20.05%) Full-Stack Development
12 258 (17.36%) Front End Development
13 224 (15.07%) Computer Science
14 223 (15.01%) Performance Optimisation
15 222 (14.94%) TDD
16 202 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
17 192 (12.92%) User Experience
18 173 (11.64%) Scrum
19 171 (11.51%) Clean Code
20 160 (10.77%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 497 (33.45%) JavaScript
2 486 (32.71%) Java
3 427 (28.73%) SQL
4 355 (23.89%) Python
5 233 (15.68%) TypeScript
6 204 (13.73%) C#
7 108 (7.27%) PowerShell
8 100 (6.73%) C++
9 79 (5.32%) Bash
10 56 (3.77%) Rust
11 52 (3.50%) C
12 46 (3.10%) PHP
13 28 (1.88%) Go
14 15 (1.01%) Scala
15 13 (0.87%) Ada
15 13 (0.87%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.74%) Swift
17 10 (0.67%) Groovy
18 9 (0.61%) R
18 9 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 347 (23.35%) Degree
2 109 (7.34%) ISTQB
3 100 (6.73%) BPSS Clearance
4 69 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (4.37%) Security Cleared
6 42 (2.83%) SC Cleared
7 26 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 23 (1.55%) HND
9 21 (1.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 18 (1.21%) DV Cleared
11 16 (1.08%) HNC
12 12 (0.81%) Chartered Engineer
13 11 (0.74%) AWS Certification
14 10 (0.67%) Azure Certification
15 9 (0.61%) ISEB
16 7 (0.47%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.34%) ACCA
17 5 (0.34%) CIMA
17 5 (0.34%) OCP
17 5 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 523 (35.20%) QA
2 122 (8.21%) Accessibility
3 42 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 27 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (1.75%) NCSC
6 24 (1.62%) NIST
7 21 (1.41%) GDPR
8 16 (1.08%) PMO
9 11 (0.74%) Software Quality Assurance
10 8 (0.54%) Basel III
10 8 (0.54%) IFRS
10 8 (0.54%) IFRS 9
11 7 (0.47%) Basel II
11 7 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
11 7 (0.47%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.20%) Data Quality
12 3 (0.20%) JTAG
12 3 (0.20%) PMBOK
12 3 (0.20%) WCAG
13 2 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 371 (24.97%) Docker
2 13 (0.87%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.67%) Firmware
5 6 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.13%) KVM
8 2 (0.13%) Xen
9 1 (0.067%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.067%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 363 (24.43%) Kubernetes
2 113 (7.60%) Terraform
3 37 (2.49%) Ansible
4 22 (1.48%) Prometheus
5 14 (0.94%) Grafana
6 13 (0.87%) Istio
7 8 (0.54%) Argo
8 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
9 5 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.27%) Packer
10 4 (0.27%) Rundeck
11 3 (0.20%) Control-M
11 3 (0.20%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.20%) Puppet
12 2 (0.13%) CFEngine
12 2 (0.13%) Rancher
13 1 (0.067%) cPanel
Vendors
1 199 (13.39%) Solace
2 105 (7.07%) Microsoft
3 37 (2.49%) IBM
4 36 (2.42%) Google
5 33 (2.22%) Oracle
6 30 (2.02%) Red Hat
7 28 (1.88%) Salesforce
8 21 (1.41%) Databricks
8 21 (1.41%) Keysight
9 19 (1.28%) Cisco
10 16 (1.08%) VMware
11 14 (0.94%) SAP
12 10 (0.67%) Siebel
13 8 (0.54%) ServiceNow
14 7 (0.47%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.47%) F5
15 6 (0.40%) OpenAI
16 5 (0.34%) Alteryx
16 5 (0.34%) Apple
16 5 (0.34%) Siemens