Test Automation Jobs in England

Automated Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 37 37
Rank change year-on-year -71 0 +3
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 2,158 6,184 10,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.53% 6.71% 8.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 7.02% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,479 2,668 4,916
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,355 £93,750
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 is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,083 88,114 126,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.76% 95.63% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,858 52,089 73,941
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,308 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,650 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +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 5 May 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 5 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 -68 671 £72,500 -3.33% 295
South East -54 502 £55,000 -7.95% 121
North of England -84 358 £55,000 -4.35% 122
Midlands -81 248 £50,000 -9.09% 85
South West -51 246 £55,000 +4.76% 73
North West -66 215 £55,000 -4.35% 79
West Midlands -60 186 £50,000 -11.47% 54
Yorkshire -72 108 £55,000 - 40
East of England -88 107 £51,250 -21.15% 80
East Midlands -101 61 £47,500 -13.64% 31
North East -38 35 £60,000 +4.35% 3
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 72 (3.34%) Confluence
2 35 (1.62%) Apache
3 29 (1.34%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.07%) IIS
5 15 (0.70%) CMS
6 13 (0.60%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.37%) Umbraco
9 7 (0.32%) nginx
9 7 (0.32%) SAS
10 6 (0.28%) Apache Spark
10 6 (0.28%) WordPress
11 5 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.19%) TWiki
13 3 (0.14%) JBoss
14 2 (0.093%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.093%) Moodle
14 2 (0.093%) Mule
15 1 (0.046%) Drupal
Applications
1 30 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.19%) Doxygen
6 4 (0.19%) Simulink
7 2 (0.093%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.093%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.046%) Mathematica
8 1 (0.046%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.046%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 44 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.42%) Magento
3 5 (0.23%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.093%) CiviCRM
4 2 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.093%) Endur
4 2 (0.093%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.093%) SystmOne
4 2 (0.093%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.046%) Findur
5 1 (0.046%) Postilion
5 1 (0.046%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 592 (27.43%) Azure
2 553 (25.63%) AWS
3 218 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
4 171 (7.92%) SaaS
5 123 (5.70%) GitHub
6 118 (5.47%) GCP
7 105 (4.87%) Amazon S3
7 105 (4.87%) Serverless
8 104 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
9 71 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
10 64 (2.97%) Power Platform
11 61 (2.83%) IBM Cloud
12 58 (2.69%) Amazon ECR
12 58 (2.69%) OCI
12 58 (2.69%) Route 53
13 54 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
15 46 (2.13%) PaaS
16 44 (2.04%) Power Automate
17 35 (1.62%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (2.73%) 5G
2 45 (2.09%) Wireless
3 39 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
4 38 (1.76%) Internet
5 35 (1.62%) TCP/IP
6 34 (1.58%) SD-WAN
6 34 (1.58%) WAN
7 32 (1.48%) DNS
8 30 (1.39%) HTTP
9 28 (1.30%) Bluetooth
10 24 (1.11%) Firewall
11 22 (1.02%) GSM
11 22 (1.02%) ISDN
11 22 (1.02%) LTE
11 22 (1.02%) PSTN
11 22 (1.02%) UMTS
12 19 (0.88%) MQTT
13 17 (0.79%) Network Security
14 14 (0.65%) RS-485
15 13 (0.60%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (8.80%) SQL Server
2 129 (5.98%) NoSQL
3 110 (5.10%) MySQL
4 106 (4.91%) Relational Database
5 92 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
6 88 (4.08%) MongoDB
7 78 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
8 44 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
9 42 (1.95%) DynamoDB
10 40 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (1.07%) Power BI
12 20 (0.93%) Data Lake
13 18 (0.83%) Big Data
14 16 (0.74%) RDBMS
15 15 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
16 14 (0.65%) DB2
16 14 (0.65%) Redis
17 10 (0.46%) MariaDB
17 10 (0.46%) Metadata
18 8 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 329 (15.25%) Selenium
2 319 (14.78%) Git
3 224 (10.38%) JIRA
4 206 (9.55%) Jenkins
5 139 (6.44%) Cucumber
6 98 (4.54%) Postman
7 91 (4.22%) JMeter
8 84 (3.89%) Cypress.io
9 72 (3.34%) JUnit
10 65 (3.01%) Visual Studio
11 64 (2.97%) Appium
12 63 (2.92%) GitLab
13 62 (2.87%) WebDriver
14 60 (2.78%) TeamCity
15 50 (2.32%) SpecFlow
16 47 (2.18%) REST Assured
17 46 (2.13%) LabVIEW
18 45 (2.09%) Team Foundation Server
19 39 (1.81%) Bitbucket
19 39 (1.81%) SoapUI
General
1 565 (26.18%) Social Skills
2 392 (18.16%) Finance
3 230 (10.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 222 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
5 200 (9.27%) Public Sector
6 133 (6.16%) Law
7 98 (4.54%) Retail
8 94 (4.36%) Banking
9 78 (3.61%) Electronics
10 77 (3.57%) Marketing
11 61 (2.83%) Aerospace
12 58 (2.69%) Automotive
13 57 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
14 56 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
15 54 (2.50%) Telecoms
16 43 (1.99%) Manufacturing
17 38 (1.76%) Legal
18 32 (1.48%) Financial Institution
19 25 (1.16%) Front Office
20 24 (1.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 535 (24.79%) Developer
2 396 (18.35%) Senior
3 279 (12.93%) Software Engineer
4 265 (12.28%) Lead
5 157 (7.28%) Tester
6 142 (6.58%) DevOps Engineer
7 141 (6.53%) Test Engineer
8 113 (5.24%) Senior Developer
9 110 (5.10%) Analyst
10 102 (4.73%) Software Developer
11 96 (4.45%) QA Engineer
12 92 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
13 81 (3.75%) Automation Tester
14 80 (3.71%) Java Engineer
15 79 (3.66%) Full Stack Developer
16 69 (3.20%) Test Analyst
17 64 (2.97%) Senior DevOps
17 64 (2.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 62 (2.87%) .NET Developer
19 56 (2.59%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (17.19%) .NET
2 203 (9.41%) React
3 186 (8.62%) REST
4 159 (7.37%) HTML
5 155 (7.18%) RESTful
6 148 (6.86%) CSS
7 125 (5.79%) Node.js
8 124 (5.75%) AngularJS
9 112 (5.19%) Web Services
10 111 (5.14%) JSON
11 95 (4.40%) Spring
12 90 (4.17%) .NET Core
13 86 (3.99%) ASP.NET
14 76 (3.52%) XML
15 70 (3.24%) .NET Framework
16 68 (3.15%) Spring Boot
17 61 (2.83%) Playwright
18 48 (2.22%) jQuery
19 47 (2.18%) Vue
20 40 (1.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 105 (4.87%) Self-Motivation
2 102 (4.73%) Product Ownership
3 101 (4.68%) Mobile App
4 72 (3.34%) Hybrid Cloud
5 71 (3.29%) Management Information System
6 62 (2.87%) e-Learning
7 60 (2.78%) Blockchain
8 49 (2.27%) Cloud Native
9 46 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
10 43 (1.99%) Satnav
11 41 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
12 39 (1.81%) Data Structures
13 32 (1.48%) Algorithms
14 31 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
15 30 (1.39%) IoT
16 29 (1.34%) Onboarding
17 28 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
18 25 (1.16%) Blog
18 25 (1.16%) Client/Server
18 25 (1.16%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 251 (11.63%) Linux
2 167 (7.74%) Windows
3 55 (2.55%) Apple iOS
4 54 (2.50%) Android
5 46 (2.13%) Unix
6 26 (1.20%) Windows Server
7 22 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 19 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
9 12 (0.56%) Mac OS
10 11 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
11 9 (0.42%) Debian
11 9 (0.42%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.19%) VMS
13 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.14%) CentOS
15 2 (0.093%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.093%) Windows 10
16 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,137 (52.69%) Agile
2 730 (33.83%) DevOps
3 531 (24.61%) CI/CD
4 507 (23.49%) Software Engineering
5 492 (22.80%) Problem-Solving
6 435 (20.16%) Software Testing
7 422 (19.56%) Mentoring
8 334 (15.48%) Scrum
9 310 (14.37%) Coaching
10 293 (13.58%) Continuous Integration
11 274 (12.70%) Microservices
12 271 (12.56%) TDD
13 243 (11.26%) Computer Science
14 227 (10.52%) Containerisation
15 222 (10.29%) Test Strategy
16 221 (10.24%) Test Scripting
17 195 (9.04%) SDLC
18 184 (8.53%) Full Stack Development
19 182 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
20 177 (8.20%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 514 (23.82%) Java
2 486 (22.52%) C#
3 477 (22.10%) SQL
4 452 (20.95%) Python
5 419 (19.42%) JavaScript
6 180 (8.34%) TypeScript
7 145 (6.72%) C
8 132 (6.12%) C++
9 94 (4.36%) PowerShell
10 78 (3.61%) PHP
11 61 (2.83%) Bash
12 54 (2.50%) Kotlin
13 50 (2.32%) Go
14 40 (1.85%) Perl
15 37 (1.71%) MATLAB
16 35 (1.62%) Ruby
17 33 (1.53%) T-SQL
18 23 (1.07%) Rust
19 22 (1.02%) Bicep
20 20 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 424 (19.65%) Degree
2 255 (11.82%) Security Cleared
3 162 (7.51%) SC Cleared
4 150 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 83 (3.85%) ISTQB
6 59 (2.73%) DV Cleared
7 39 (1.81%) ISEB
8 34 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (1.58%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.20%) DBS Check
10 21 (0.97%) AWS Certification
11 20 (0.93%) Azure Certification
12 14 (0.65%) HND
12 14 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
16 4 (0.19%) Chartered Engineer
16 4 (0.19%) CIPD
16 4 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 517 (23.96%) QA
2 42 (1.95%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.62%) GDPR
4 23 (1.07%) Software Quality Assurance
5 22 (1.02%) PMO
6 21 (0.97%) Data Quality
7 13 (0.60%) ISO 9001
7 13 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.60%) NCSC
8 10 (0.46%) HIPAA
8 10 (0.46%) JTAG
9 8 (0.37%) PSD2
9 8 (0.37%) SLA
10 7 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.19%) MISRA
12 3 (0.14%) MISRA C
13 2 (0.093%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 2 (0.093%) ITGC
13 2 (0.093%) WCAG
System Software
1 234 (10.84%) Docker
2 41 (1.90%) Firmware
3 27 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 26 (1.20%) Embedded Firmware
5 19 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
6 17 (0.79%) Active Directory
7 10 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.28%) VirtualBox
9 4 (0.19%) VMware Server
10 3 (0.14%) vSphere
11 2 (0.093%) Varnish
12 1 (0.046%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 261 (12.09%) Kubernetes
2 240 (11.12%) Terraform
3 124 (5.75%) Ansible
4 58 (2.69%) Prometheus
5 43 (1.99%) Puppet
6 42 (1.95%) Progress Chef
7 29 (1.34%) Grafana
8 16 (0.74%) Nagios
9 14 (0.65%) Kibana
10 11 (0.51%) Packer
10 11 (0.51%) Salt
11 10 (0.46%) Graphite
11 10 (0.46%) HAProxy
11 10 (0.46%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.32%) MIIS
13 6 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.23%) Argo
14 5 (0.23%) Control-M
15 4 (0.19%) Consul
15 4 (0.19%) WMI
Vendors
1 256 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 70 (3.24%) IBM
3 68 (3.15%) Google
4 65 (3.01%) Red Hat
5 61 (2.83%) Dynatrace
6 37 (1.71%) Oracle
7 32 (1.48%) Xamarin
8 25 (1.16%) Databricks
9 24 (1.11%) SAP
9 24 (1.11%) YouTube
10 22 (1.02%) UiPath
11 20 (0.93%) VMware
12 19 (0.88%) Atlassian
13 17 (0.79%) Splunk
14 16 (0.74%) Automation Anywhere
15 13 (0.60%) ServiceNow
15 13 (0.60%) Sybase
16 12 (0.56%) Salesforce
17 11 (0.51%) Blue Prism
18 8 (0.37%) Xero