Test Automation Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Automated Testing
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 51 71
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 -37
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 5 26 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.77% 4.11% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 4.43% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2 15 25
10th Percentile £47,125 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,313 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,813 £75,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £78,375 £93,000 £85,000
South West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +15.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 489 587 868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 75.46% 92.73% 88.75%
Number of salaries quoted 345 241 539
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £29,688
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,250 £77,500 £80,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.15% +3.69% +2.94%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Gloucester +8 3 - - 10
Cheltenham -8 1 £60,000 - 13
Test Automation
South West

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) InfluxDB
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) Robot Framework
1 2 (40.00%) TestRail
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Tester
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) CentOS
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Management
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) ATDD
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk