Test Automation Jobs in Essex

Automated Testing
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 42 39
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 +3
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 21 47 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 2.39% 5.47% 6.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 5.84% 6.73%
Number of salaries quoted 15 2 17
10th Percentile £28,550 £41,963 -
25th Percentile £33,500 £46,011 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £53,514 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.79% -17.67% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,511 £71,250
90th Percentile £59,000 £65,854 £83,750
East of England median annual salary £51,250 £68,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -25.45% +25.00% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 717 805 906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 81.66% 93.60% 97.31%
Number of salaries quoted 581 371 428
10th Percentile £25,759 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,565
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £48,350
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.76% +1.79%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Essex

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Essex

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Essex over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Essex

Test Automation
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Essex region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Harlow - 9 £35,750 -
Chelmsford +3 6 £55,000 +39.14% 5
Southend-on-Sea +16 3 £38,000 -43.70%
Saffron Walden - 3 £27,500 -
Test Automation
East of England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 4 (19.05%) CMS
Business Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
1 2 (9.52%) AWS
1 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (9.52%) Serverless
2 1 (4.76%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) MariaDB
1 1 (4.76%) MySQL
1 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) JIRA
2 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 3 (14.29%) Git
2 3 (14.29%) LabVIEW
3 2 (9.52%) Artifactory
3 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.52%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.76%) GitLab
4 1 (4.76%) Selenium
4 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Electronics
2 3 (14.29%) Marketing
2 3 (14.29%) Retail
3 2 (9.52%) Back Office
3 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Magento Developer
3 5 (23.81%) Lead
3 5 (23.81%) Software Team Leader
3 5 (23.81%) Team Leader
4 3 (14.29%) Full Stack Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Software Tester
4 3 (14.29%) Tester
5 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Python Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) QA Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) CSS
1 9 (42.86%) HTML
2 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (9.52%) JSON
2 2 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (9.52%) REST
3 1 (4.76%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) E-Commerce
1 9 (42.86%) Full Stack Development
2 8 (38.10%) Software Testing
3 6 (28.57%) Web Development
4 4 (19.05%) Agile
4 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Code Quality
5 3 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (14.29%) Physics
5 3 (14.29%) Project Management
5 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 3 (14.29%) Test Scripting
6 2 (9.52%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (9.52%) Auto-Scaling
6 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
6 2 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (9.52%) DevOps
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (9.52%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) PHP
2 6 (28.57%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) C#
3 3 (14.29%) C++
3 3 (14.29%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) MATLAB
4 2 (9.52%) Groovy
4 2 (9.52%) Perl
4 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) QA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Ansible
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
1 2 (9.52%) Packer
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) AppDynamics
1 2 (9.52%) Atlassian
1 2 (9.52%) IBM
2 1 (4.76%) Google