Test Automation Jobs in Farnborough

Automated Testing
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Farnborough 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 31 18
Rank change year-on-year +8 -13 -4
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 12 11 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Farnborough 6.38% 5.29% 13.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.45% 5.47% 14.46%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 32
10th Percentile - £35,500 £37,125
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £37,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -50.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £92,500
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 186 201 249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Farnborough 98.94% 96.63% 91.21%
Number of salaries quoted 70 177 192
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,050 £29,325
25th Percentile £42,188 £44,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.53% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £80,625
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £91,250
Hampshire median annual salary £54,250 £50,000 £54,750
% change year-on-year +8.50% -8.68% +3.79%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Farnborough

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Farnborough

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Farnborough

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Farnborough

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Farnborough over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Farnborough

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Farnborough 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 3 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) SaaS
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Big Data
2 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Artifactory
2 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (16.67%) git-flow
2 2 (16.67%) Gradle
3 1 (8.33%) Gatling
3 1 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) JMeter
3 1 (8.33%) JUnit
3 1 (8.33%) Mockito
3 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Test Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Java Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Spring Boot
2 3 (25.00%) Kafka
2 3 (25.00%) Spring
3 2 (16.67%) Drools
3 2 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (8.33%) Java SE
4 1 (8.33%) Playwright
4 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
1 8 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Manual Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) Application Security
5 3 (25.00%) Big Data Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (25.00%) Data Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) Digital Banking
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (25.00%) User Stories
6 2 (16.67%) BDD
6 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
6 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
6 2 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 7 (58.33%) Java
3 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 2 (16.67%) Rust
5 1 (8.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) OCP
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform