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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 109 38
Rank change year-on-year +8 -71 -3
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 1,493 2,154 5,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.05% 2.41% 6.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 2.86% 6.97%
Number of salaries quoted 820 1,451 2,478
10th Percentile £41,225 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,055 £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 £78,750 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £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 46,039 75,199 82,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.03% 84.05% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 22,875 54,702 49,146
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

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 30 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 30 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 +11 432 £72,500 +3.57% 589
South East +8 327 £60,000 +9.09% 1,491
North of England +4 313 £55,000 - 1,132
North West -14 225 £55,000 -4.35% 514
Midlands +29 176 £57,500 +15.00% 994
South West +52 158 £60,000 +9.09% 638
West Midlands -5 98 £65,000 +23.81% 513
East Midlands +60 78 £47,500 - 416
East of England +10 74 £57,000 +3.64% 758
Yorkshire +15 65 £52,723 -4.14% 469
North East +40 23 £59,002 -1.66% 151
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
1 146 (9.78%) Confluence
2 20 (1.34%) Apache Spark
3 17 (1.14%) SharePoint
4 11 (0.74%) CMS
5 10 (0.67%) Apache
6 7 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.40%) Appian
7 6 (0.40%) nginx
8 5 (0.33%) JBoss
8 5 (0.33%) Liferay
8 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.27%) IIS
9 4 (0.27%) SAS
10 3 (0.20%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.20%) CICS
10 3 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.20%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.13%) Drupal
11 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.54%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
4 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.067%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.067%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.33%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.13%) Shopify
6 1 (0.067%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.067%) Endur
6 1 (0.067%) Magento
6 1 (0.067%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.067%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 559 (37.44%) Azure
2 461 (30.88%) AWS
3 236 (15.81%) GCP
4 145 (9.71%) Azure DevOps
5 84 (5.63%) Serverless
6 83 (5.56%) GitHub
7 57 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
8 50 (3.35%) SaaS
9 47 (3.15%) PaaS
10 44 (2.95%) Amazon S3
11 40 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (2.14%) Power Platform
13 26 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
14 25 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
15 24 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
16 22 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
17 21 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
17 21 (1.41%) Power Automate
18 18 (1.21%) npm
19 17 (1.14%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 71 (4.76%) VPN
2 70 (4.69%) TCP/IP
3 20 (1.34%) 5G
3 20 (1.34%) SD-WAN
3 20 (1.34%) WAN
4 11 (0.74%) Network Security
5 9 (0.60%) Bluetooth
6 6 (0.40%) DNS
6 6 (0.40%) Multicast
6 6 (0.40%) SAN
6 6 (0.40%) SSL
6 6 (0.40%) VLAN
6 6 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.40%) Wireless
7 5 (0.33%) BGP
8 4 (0.27%) EIGRP
8 4 (0.27%) Firewall
8 4 (0.27%) OSPF
9 3 (0.20%) Broadband
9 3 (0.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 254 (17.01%) SQL Server
2 91 (6.10%) NoSQL
3 75 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
4 60 (4.02%) Relational Database
5 52 (3.48%) MySQL
6 48 (3.22%) MongoDB
7 43 (2.88%) DynamoDB
8 23 (1.54%) Big Data
9 22 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
10 21 (1.41%) Power BI
11 15 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (0.67%) Cloud Spanner
12 10 (0.67%) DB2
12 10 (0.67%) RDBMS
13 9 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (0.47%) Oracle Database
15 7 (0.47%) Redis
16 6 (0.40%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 372 (24.92%) Selenium
2 356 (23.84%) JIRA
3 311 (20.83%) Cucumber
4 245 (16.41%) GitLab
5 229 (15.34%) SonarQube
6 226 (15.14%) Maven
7 223 (14.94%) Sonatype Nexus
8 209 (14.00%) Bitbucket
9 202 (13.53%) Git
10 102 (6.83%) Jenkins
11 77 (5.16%) Robot Framework
12 71 (4.76%) Postman
13 61 (4.09%) Cypress.io
14 43 (2.88%) JUnit
15 39 (2.61%) Appium
16 37 (2.48%) JMeter
17 27 (1.81%) SpecFlow
18 25 (1.67%) SoapUI
19 21 (1.41%) eggPlant
20 19 (1.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 536 (35.90%) Finance
2 398 (26.66%) Social Skills
3 364 (24.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 340 (22.77%) Banking
5 123 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
6 112 (7.50%) Retail
7 95 (6.36%) Law
8 94 (6.30%) Investment Banking
9 90 (6.03%) Corporate Banking
10 76 (5.09%) Telecoms
11 66 (4.42%) Public Sector
12 46 (3.08%) Electronics
13 41 (2.75%) Marketing
14 37 (2.48%) Legal
15 36 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
16 32 (2.14%) Front Office
17 31 (2.08%) Manufacturing
18 23 (1.54%) Aerospace
18 23 (1.54%) Games
19 17 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 387 (25.92%) Software Engineer
2 358 (23.98%) Senior
3 248 (16.61%) Developer
4 207 (13.86%) Lead
5 183 (12.26%) Test Engineer
6 120 (8.04%) Senior Developer
7 97 (6.50%) Test Automation Engineer
8 85 (5.69%) Analyst
9 77 (5.16%) Senior Software Engineer
10 72 (4.82%) QA Engineer
11 71 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
12 55 (3.68%) Senior Test Engineer
12 55 (3.68%) Software Test Engineer
13 52 (3.48%) Test Analyst
14 51 (3.42%) Software Developer
15 46 (3.08%) Senior Software Test Engineer
16 43 (2.88%) Automation Engineer
17 39 (2.61%) Software Team Leader
17 39 (2.61%) Team Leader
17 39 (2.61%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 328 (21.97%) React
2 293 (19.62%) CSS
3 288 (19.29%) HTML
4 280 (18.75%) Spring Boot
5 269 (18.02%) Kafka
6 259 (17.35%) Spring
7 204 (13.66%) JPA
8 201 (13.46%) Redux
9 198 (13.26%) RESTful
10 181 (12.12%) REST
11 125 (8.37%) Hibernate
12 123 (8.24%) .NET
13 112 (7.50%) HTML5
14 109 (7.30%) Jest
15 107 (7.17%) CSS3
16 100 (6.70%) Sass
17 80 (5.36%) Node.js
18 77 (5.16%) Playwright
19 60 (4.02%) AngularJS
20 47 (3.15%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 248 (16.61%) Product Ownership
2 209 (14.00%) Enterprise Software
3 76 (5.09%) Cloud Native
4 72 (4.82%) Linux Command Line
5 57 (3.82%) Algorithms
6 48 (3.22%) Mobile App
7 47 (3.15%) Public Cloud
8 45 (3.01%) Management Information System
9 42 (2.81%) e-Learning
10 41 (2.75%) Data Structures
11 40 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
12 37 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
13 30 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
14 29 (1.94%) Equities
15 28 (1.88%) Onboarding
16 23 (1.54%) Client/Server
17 22 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
18 21 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
19 20 (1.34%) Operational Technology
19 20 (1.34%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 181 (12.12%) Linux
2 112 (7.50%) Windows
3 35 (2.34%) Apple iOS
4 25 (1.67%) Android
5 24 (1.61%) Unix
6 7 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.33%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.33%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 861 (57.67%) Agile
2 633 (42.40%) CI/CD
3 627 (42.00%) DevOps
4 523 (35.03%) Software Engineering
5 393 (26.32%) Microservices
6 392 (26.26%) Mentoring
7 377 (25.25%) Containerisation
8 362 (24.25%) Problem-Solving
9 358 (23.98%) SDLC
10 303 (20.29%) Software Testing
11 298 (19.96%) Full-Stack Development
12 262 (17.55%) Front End Development
13 234 (15.67%) TDD
14 228 (15.27%) Performance Optimisation
15 225 (15.07%) Computer Science
16 200 (13.40%) User Experience
17 196 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
18 185 (12.39%) Scrum
19 182 (12.19%) Clean Code
20 155 (10.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 502 (33.62%) Java
2 494 (33.09%) JavaScript
3 446 (29.87%) SQL
4 375 (25.12%) Python
5 231 (15.47%) TypeScript
6 192 (12.86%) C#
7 109 (7.30%) PowerShell
8 98 (6.56%) C++
9 80 (5.36%) Bash
10 56 (3.75%) Rust
11 48 (3.22%) C
12 47 (3.15%) PHP
13 45 (3.01%) Go
14 16 (1.07%) Scala
15 12 (0.80%) Ada
16 11 (0.74%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.67%) Shell Script
18 9 (0.60%) Groovy
18 9 (0.60%) MATLAB
18 9 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 340 (22.77%) Degree
2 102 (6.83%) ISTQB
3 99 (6.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 71 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (4.55%) Security Cleared
6 42 (2.81%) SC Cleared
7 28 (1.88%) Master's Degree
8 22 (1.47%) DV Cleared
8 22 (1.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 21 (1.41%) HND
10 16 (1.07%) HNC
11 15 (1.00%) AWS Certification
12 12 (0.80%) Chartered Engineer
13 9 (0.60%) Azure Certification
13 9 (0.60%) ISEB
14 8 (0.54%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 5 (0.33%) ACCA
16 5 (0.33%) CCNP
16 5 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 493 (33.02%) QA
2 118 (7.90%) Accessibility
3 42 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 27 (1.81%) NCSC
5 23 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.27%) NIST
7 14 (0.94%) PMO
8 11 (0.74%) GDPR
9 10 (0.67%) Software Quality Assurance
10 4 (0.27%) Basel II
10 4 (0.27%) Basel III
10 4 (0.27%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
10 4 (0.27%) IFRS
10 4 (0.27%) IFRS 9
10 4 (0.27%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.20%) PMBOK
11 3 (0.20%) WCAG
12 2 (0.13%) JTAG
12 2 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 385 (25.79%) Docker
2 17 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.47%) Firmware
5 5 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.13%) KVM
8 2 (0.13%) Xen
8 2 (0.13%) zsh
9 1 (0.067%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.067%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.067%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 377 (25.25%) Kubernetes
2 127 (8.51%) Terraform
3 42 (2.81%) Ansible
4 27 (1.81%) Prometheus
5 18 (1.21%) Grafana
6 12 (0.80%) Istio
7 8 (0.54%) Argo
8 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (0.40%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
11 4 (0.27%) Mesos
11 4 (0.27%) Packer
12 3 (0.20%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.20%) Puppet
13 2 (0.13%) CFEngine
13 2 (0.13%) Rancher
13 2 (0.13%) SCCM
13 2 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 199 (13.33%) Solace
2 109 (7.30%) Microsoft
3 54 (3.62%) IBM
4 50 (3.35%) Google
5 46 (3.08%) Red Hat
6 37 (2.48%) Oracle
7 28 (1.88%) Salesforce
8 26 (1.74%) Databricks
9 24 (1.61%) VMware
10 21 (1.41%) Cisco
10 21 (1.41%) Keysight
11 14 (0.94%) Siebel
12 13 (0.87%) SAP
13 11 (0.74%) Atlassian
14 8 (0.54%) F5
15 7 (0.47%) ServiceNow
15 7 (0.47%) UiPath
16 6 (0.40%) Guidewire
16 6 (0.40%) Meraki
16 6 (0.40%) OpenAI