Test Automation Jobs in Hampshire

Automated Testing
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 60 30
Rank change year-on-year +28 -30 +4
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 120 154 212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 5.90% 3.84% 7.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.75% 4.69% 8.01%
Number of salaries quoted 89 104 155
10th Percentile £37,400 £36,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £75,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £83,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.56% +3.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,778 3,285 2,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 87.37% 81.98% 93.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,035 2,512 1,869
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,400
25th Percentile £41,875 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £81,250
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Hampshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Hampshire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Hampshire

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Hampshire over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Hampshire

Test Automation
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Southampton +43 28 £55,000 -8.33% 12
Basingstoke -17 20 £47,500 -5.00% 15
Portsmouth +1 15 £60,000 +20.00% 11
Farnborough +12 13 £48,000 -14.67% 11
Fareham -1 8 £38,750 -18.42%
Waterlooville - 6 £60,000 - 1
Petersfield -2 5 £60,000 +4.35%
Gosport - 5 £60,000 -
Eastleigh - 5 £36,500 - 2
Southsea - 5 £60,000 -
Winchester - 4 - - 3
Romsey +13 3 - - 1
Fleet - 1 £52,500 -
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (3.33%) JBoss
2 3 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 46 (38.33%) Azure
2 21 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (15.00%) AWS
4 9 (7.50%) SaaS
5 8 (6.67%) Serverless
6 7 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (5.00%) GitHub
8 4 (3.33%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.50%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.83%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.83%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.17%) Firewall
2 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.83%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.83%) DynamoDB
3 4 (3.33%) Oracle Database
3 4 (3.33%) Power BI
3 4 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.50%) Big Data
5 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (13.33%) Selenium
2 12 (10.00%) Git
2 12 (10.00%) MagicDraw
3 8 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.00%) Cucumber
4 6 (5.00%) SpecFlow
5 3 (2.50%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.50%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.50%) git-flow
5 3 (2.50%) Gradle
5 3 (2.50%) JUnit
6 2 (1.67%) JIRA
6 2 (1.67%) TestNG
6 2 (1.67%) TestRail
7 1 (0.83%) Gatling
7 1 (0.83%) Mockito
7 1 (0.83%) Postman
7 1 (0.83%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
General
1 34 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (8.33%) Finance
4 5 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.33%) Banking
5 4 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.50%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.67%) Advertising
7 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Legal
8 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (38.33%) Senior
2 24 (20.00%) Developer
3 23 (19.17%) Analyst
3 23 (19.17%) Test Analyst
4 22 (18.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (17.50%) Lead
6 20 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 20 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
6 20 (16.67%) Senior Developer
7 18 (15.00%) Software Team Leader
7 18 (15.00%) Team Leader
8 14 (11.67%) Senior Software Developer
8 14 (11.67%) Software Developer
9 11 (9.17%) Senior Analyst
9 11 (9.17%) Senior Test Analyst
10 9 (7.50%) Test Engineer
11 8 (6.67%) QA Analyst
11 8 (6.67%) QA Test Analyst
11 8 (6.67%) Software Engineer
12 6 (5.00%) Senior Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.00%) .NET
2 14 (11.67%) ASP.NET
3 13 (10.83%) .NET Core
3 13 (10.83%) GraphQL
4 12 (10.00%) XML
5 8 (6.67%) React
6 7 (5.83%) Node.js
7 6 (5.00%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.33%) Kafka
8 4 (3.33%) REST
9 3 (2.50%) Drools
9 3 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.50%) Spring
10 2 (1.67%) .NET Framework
11 1 (0.83%) AngularJS
11 1 (0.83%) CSS
11 1 (0.83%) HTML
11 1 (0.83%) Java SE
11 1 (0.83%) RESTful
11 1 (0.83%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.83%) e-Learning
1 19 (15.83%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.67%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.83%) Clustering
5 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.83%) EPoS
5 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (60.00%) Agile
2 41 (34.17%) Containerisation
3 38 (31.67%) Software Testing
4 25 (20.83%) DevOps
4 25 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (19.17%) Manual Testing
6 22 (18.33%) CI/CD
6 22 (18.33%) Scrum
7 21 (17.50%) Coaching
8 20 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
9 19 (15.83%) Mentoring
10 18 (15.00%) Line Management
11 17 (14.17%) Computer Science
12 14 (11.67%) Unit Testing
13 13 (10.83%) Software Engineering
14 12 (10.00%) Data Modelling
14 12 (10.00%) Microservices
14 12 (10.00%) SysML
14 12 (10.00%) UML
15 11 (9.17%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 36 (30.00%) C#
2 34 (28.33%) Java
3 22 (18.33%) Rust
4 17 (14.17%) TypeScript
5 12 (10.00%) Python
6 11 (9.17%) C++
7 7 (5.83%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.83%) SQL
8 4 (3.33%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.50%) C
9 3 (2.50%) Embedded C
9 3 (2.50%) Embedded C++
10 1 (0.83%) Go
10 1 (0.83%) PHP
10 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (18.33%) ISTQB
2 16 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 14 (11.67%) SC Cleared
4 12 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (9.17%) Degree
6 4 (3.33%) DBS Check
6 4 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.50%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.50%) OCP
7 3 (2.50%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.67%) QA
2 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (2.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.50%) Ansible
2 3 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 19 (15.83%) IBM
2 19 (15.83%) Red Hat
3 4 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (0.83%) Spotify
4 1 (0.83%) VMware