Test Automation Job Trends in Havering

Automated Testing
East London > Havering

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Havering requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Havering 2.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 - -
75th Percentile £41,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East London median annual salary £115,000 £57,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +100.00% -28.13% +68.42%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Havering

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 Havering.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58 9 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Havering 61.05% 81.82% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 37 2 6
10th Percentile £24,725 £43,000 £28,338
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,500 £30,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £55,000 £45,273
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +21.49% +20.73%
75th Percentile £50,000 £62,500 £53,046
90th Percentile £55,000 £67,000 £54,523
East London median annual salary £55,000 £78,750 £53,046
% change year-on-year -30.16% +48.46% +6.09%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Havering

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Havering

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Havering

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Havering citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Havering citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Job Locations in Havering

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Havering region over the 6 months to 4 September 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
Romford - 1 - -
Upminster - 1 £37,500 - 1
Test Automation
East London

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Havering 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Vite
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Express.js
1 1 (50.00%) Fastify
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Sass
1 1 (50.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Low-Code
1 1 (50.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) AIOps
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) Backends for Frontends
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Intelligent Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft