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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 62 36
Rank change year-on-year -58 -26 +5
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 1,744 3,410 12,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.23% 4.80% 8.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 5.04% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,133 2,120 5,358
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +4.35%

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 64,248 67,718 141,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.99% 95.27% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 43,335 45,004 76,070
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,185 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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 -69 555 £70,000 -6.67% 77
North of England -30 353 £57,500 - 33
South East -56 347 £55,000 -4.35% 64
North West +14 230 £57,500 - 22
South West -46 200 £60,000 +4.35% 46
Midlands -83 193 £52,500 -12.50% 39
West Midlands -45 150 £52,500 -12.50% 30
Yorkshire -33 105 £55,000 -8.33% 9
East of England -75 70 £47,500 -24.00% 25
East Midlands -107 42 £48,500 -19.17% 9
North East -42 18 £65,465 +15.87% 2
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 43 (2.47%) Confluence
2 24 (1.38%) IIS
3 23 (1.32%) Apache
4 16 (0.92%) SharePoint
5 12 (0.69%) CMS
6 11 (0.63%) Tuxedo
7 7 (0.40%) nginx
7 7 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.40%) SAS
8 5 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.29%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.29%) WordPress
9 4 (0.23%) JBoss
9 4 (0.23%) TWiki
10 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.11%) Moodle
11 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 31 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.11%) Fusion 360
5 2 (0.11%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.11%) Simulink
6 1 (0.057%) Doxygen
6 1 (0.057%) Mathematica
6 1 (0.057%) Notion
6 1 (0.057%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 18 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.17%) Endur
4 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.11%) CiviCRM
5 2 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.11%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.11%) Findur
6 1 (0.057%) LabWindows
6 1 (0.057%) Magento
6 1 (0.057%) Postilion
6 1 (0.057%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.057%) SAP SM
6 1 (0.057%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 503 (28.84%) AWS
2 434 (24.89%) Azure
3 169 (9.69%) Azure DevOps
4 148 (8.49%) SaaS
5 121 (6.94%) GCP
6 120 (6.88%) Amazon S3
7 119 (6.82%) GitHub
8 118 (6.77%) Amazon EKS
9 98 (5.62%) OCI
10 91 (5.22%) Amazon ECR
10 91 (5.22%) Route 53
11 90 (5.16%) IBM Cloud
12 69 (3.96%) Serverless
13 59 (3.38%) PaaS
14 56 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (2.69%) IaaS
16 41 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
17 39 (2.24%) Power Platform
18 31 (1.78%) OpenShift
19 28 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 53 (3.04%) 5G
2 41 (2.35%) WAN
3 40 (2.29%) SD-WAN
4 38 (2.18%) HTTP
5 31 (1.78%) Wireless
6 26 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (1.43%) DNS
8 18 (1.03%) Internet
8 18 (1.03%) Network Security
9 17 (0.97%) MQTT
9 17 (0.97%) TCP/IP
10 16 (0.92%) RS-485
11 15 (0.86%) 4G
11 15 (0.86%) Bluetooth
12 13 (0.75%) 3G
13 11 (0.63%) Firewall
14 10 (0.57%) SMTP
15 8 (0.46%) GSM
15 8 (0.46%) PSTN
15 8 (0.46%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (8.77%) SQL Server
2 133 (7.63%) NoSQL
3 103 (5.91%) Amazon RDS
4 81 (4.64%) Relational Database
5 74 (4.24%) MongoDB
6 68 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
7 66 (3.78%) MySQL
8 30 (1.72%) DynamoDB
9 22 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (0.92%) Power BI
11 13 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (0.75%) DB2
12 12 (0.69%) RDBMS
13 11 (0.63%) Big Data
14 9 (0.52%) MariaDB
14 9 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
14 9 (0.52%) Redis
15 7 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 277 (15.88%) Selenium
2 242 (13.88%) Git
3 143 (8.20%) JIRA
4 102 (5.85%) Jenkins
5 90 (5.16%) Postman
6 83 (4.76%) JMeter
7 82 (4.70%) Visual Studio
8 78 (4.47%) Cucumber
9 77 (4.42%) Cypress.io
10 62 (3.56%) SpecFlow
11 61 (3.50%) GitLab
11 61 (3.50%) JUnit
11 61 (3.50%) TeamCity
12 49 (2.81%) WebDriver
13 45 (2.58%) REST Assured
14 44 (2.52%) Appium
15 36 (2.06%) LabVIEW
15 36 (2.06%) NUnit
15 36 (2.06%) SonarQube
16 32 (1.83%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 474 (27.18%) Social Skills
2 279 (16.00%) Finance
3 209 (11.98%) Public Sector
4 206 (11.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 194 (11.12%) Analytical Skills
6 109 (6.25%) Law
7 87 (4.99%) Retail
8 65 (3.73%) Banking
9 59 (3.38%) Electronics
10 52 (2.98%) Marketing
11 49 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
12 43 (2.47%) Aerospace
13 42 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
14 39 (2.24%) Automotive
15 38 (2.18%) Telecoms
16 30 (1.72%) Manufacturing
17 28 (1.61%) Front Office
18 24 (1.38%) Legal
19 22 (1.26%) Tech for Good
20 18 (1.03%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 400 (22.94%) Senior
2 356 (20.41%) Developer
3 282 (16.17%) Software Engineer
4 183 (10.49%) Lead
5 149 (8.54%) DevOps Engineer
6 132 (7.57%) Test Engineer
7 125 (7.17%) Senior Software Engineer
8 112 (6.42%) Tester
9 101 (5.79%) Analyst
10 84 (4.82%) Senior Developer
11 83 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
11 83 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 80 (4.59%) Software Developer
13 73 (4.19%) Test Analyst
14 68 (3.90%) Java Engineer
14 68 (3.90%) QA Engineer
15 66 (3.78%) Automation Tester
16 64 (3.67%) Full Stack Developer
17 55 (3.15%) .NET Developer
18 48 (2.75%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (16.17%) .NET
2 149 (8.54%) React
3 147 (8.43%) REST
4 136 (7.80%) RESTful
5 114 (6.54%) HTML
6 108 (6.19%) CSS
7 98 (5.62%) Web Services
8 93 (5.33%) AngularJS
9 81 (4.64%) ASP.NET
10 78 (4.47%) .NET Core
11 76 (4.36%) Node.js
12 75 (4.30%) JSON
13 71 (4.07%) .NET Framework
14 66 (3.78%) Playwright
15 57 (3.27%) Spring
16 54 (3.10%) XML
17 43 (2.47%) ARM Templates
18 38 (2.18%) GraphQL
19 37 (2.12%) Vue
20 36 (2.06%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 117 (6.71%) Self-Motivation
2 105 (6.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 91 (5.22%) e-Learning
4 90 (5.16%) Blockchain
5 82 (4.70%) Mobile App
6 78 (4.47%) Product Ownership
7 68 (3.90%) Cloud Native
8 60 (3.44%) Management Information System
9 55 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
10 42 (2.41%) Onboarding
11 36 (2.06%) Blog
12 33 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
13 24 (1.38%) GNSS
14 23 (1.32%) Virtual Team
15 22 (1.26%) Algorithms
16 21 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
16 21 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
16 21 (1.20%) Public Cloud
17 19 (1.09%) Satnav
18 18 (1.03%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 210 (12.04%) Linux
2 120 (6.88%) Windows
3 47 (2.69%) Apple iOS
4 41 (2.35%) Unix
5 36 (2.06%) Android
6 33 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (1.20%) Windows Server
8 16 (0.92%) Embedded Linux
9 12 (0.69%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.57%) Debian
11 9 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
12 6 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.23%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.23%) VMS
14 3 (0.17%) CentOS
15 1 (0.057%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.057%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 943 (54.07%) Agile
2 565 (32.40%) DevOps
3 470 (26.95%) Software Engineering
4 462 (26.49%) CI/CD
5 397 (22.76%) Problem-Solving
6 389 (22.31%) Software Testing
7 368 (21.10%) Mentoring
8 269 (15.42%) Coaching
9 258 (14.79%) Scrum
10 244 (13.99%) Containerisation
11 242 (13.88%) Continuous Integration
12 233 (13.36%) TDD
13 213 (12.21%) Microservices
14 207 (11.87%) Test Scripting
15 202 (11.58%) Computer Science
16 166 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
17 165 (9.46%) Test Strategy
18 162 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
19 154 (8.83%) SDLC
20 146 (8.37%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 401 (22.99%) Java
2 382 (21.90%) SQL
3 365 (20.93%) C#
4 363 (20.81%) Python
5 331 (18.98%) JavaScript
6 150 (8.60%) TypeScript
7 123 (7.05%) C++
8 84 (4.82%) C
9 70 (4.01%) Kotlin
10 48 (2.75%) PHP
11 39 (2.24%) PowerShell
12 36 (2.06%) Bash
13 33 (1.89%) MATLAB
13 33 (1.89%) Scala
14 30 (1.72%) Perl
15 28 (1.61%) Go
16 26 (1.49%) T-SQL
17 18 (1.03%) Ruby
17 18 (1.03%) Swift
18 17 (0.97%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 337 (19.32%) Degree
2 227 (13.02%) Security Cleared
3 132 (7.57%) SC Cleared
4 122 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 94 (5.39%) ISTQB
6 59 (3.38%) DV Cleared
7 44 (2.52%) Master's Degree
8 36 (2.06%) ISEB
9 22 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 15 (0.86%) Azure Certification
11 15 (0.86%) HND
12 14 (0.80%) AWS Certification
13 11 (0.63%) DBS Check
13 11 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.34%) PhD
16 4 (0.23%) ISEB Practitioner
17 3 (0.17%) BC Cleared
17 3 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 409 (23.45%) QA
2 41 (2.35%) Accessibility
3 30 (1.72%) GDPR
4 23 (1.32%) NCSC
5 22 (1.26%) PMO
6 17 (0.97%) Software Quality Assurance
7 15 (0.86%) ISO 9001
8 14 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 13 (0.75%) SLA
10 11 (0.63%) HIPAA
11 9 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.46%) Data Quality
13 7 (0.40%) JTAG
14 3 (0.17%) ITGC
14 3 (0.17%) MISRA
14 3 (0.17%) MISRA C
14 3 (0.17%) SOC 1
14 3 (0.17%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 212 (12.16%) Docker
2 40 (2.29%) Firmware
3 26 (1.49%) Embedded Firmware
4 14 (0.80%) Active Directory
5 13 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.11%) Varnish
6 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.11%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.11%) vSphere
7 1 (0.057%) GlusterFS
7 1 (0.057%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.057%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 294 (16.86%) Kubernetes
2 257 (14.74%) Terraform
3 95 (5.45%) Prometheus
4 73 (4.19%) Ansible
5 29 (1.66%) Grafana
6 28 (1.61%) Puppet
7 26 (1.49%) Progress Chef
8 15 (0.86%) Salt
9 14 (0.80%) Kibana
10 9 (0.52%) Packer
11 7 (0.40%) Istio
11 7 (0.40%) MIIS
12 6 (0.34%) HP ALM
12 6 (0.34%) Nagios
13 5 (0.29%) WMI
14 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.23%) Kustomize
15 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
16 2 (0.11%) cPanel
Vendors
1 170 (9.75%) Microsoft
2 99 (5.68%) Red Hat
3 95 (5.45%) Dynatrace
4 93 (5.33%) IBM
5 41 (2.35%) Google
6 40 (2.29%) Oracle
7 22 (1.26%) SAP
8 19 (1.09%) Atlassian
9 17 (0.97%) ServiceNow
10 16 (0.92%) Xamarin
11 15 (0.86%) UiPath
12 14 (0.80%) BT
13 13 (0.75%) Sybase
13 13 (0.75%) VMware
14 12 (0.69%) Databricks
15 11 (0.63%) Micro Focus
15 11 (0.63%) Splunk
16 8 (0.46%) Green Hills
16 8 (0.46%) Motorola
16 8 (0.46%) Xilinx