Test Automation Jobs in Hertfordshire

Automated Testing
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 91 44
Rank change year-on-year +14 -47 -2
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 12 29 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.45% 1.42% 5.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.82% 6.33%
Number of salaries quoted 10 23 32
10th Percentile £56,550 £38,750 -
25th Percentile £57,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £57,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% -28.13% +52.38%
75th Percentile £73,250 £63,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £78,750 - £97,125
East of England median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% -15.38% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 784 1,595 1,642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 95.03% 78.07% 94.04%
Number of salaries quoted 416 1,264 732
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,809 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,563 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,000 £79,875
East of England median annual salary £50,967 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.93% -9.09% +10.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Hertfordshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Hertfordshire

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Hertfordshire

Test Automation
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Stevenage +24 8 £64,250 +9.36% 57
Watford -7 1 £55,000 -4.35% 62
St Albans - 1 £60,000 - 2
Test Automation
East of England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 2 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
1 2 (16.67%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (16.67%) MinIO
2 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (8.33%) BrowserStack
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) Sauce Labs
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) CppUnit
1 4 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
1 4 (33.33%) Robot Framework
2 3 (25.00%) Selenium
3 2 (16.67%) Artifactory
3 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 2 (16.67%) GitLab
3 2 (16.67%) Snyk
3 2 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (8.33%) JMeter
4 1 (8.33%) Postman
General
1 6 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Embedded Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Software Verification Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Verification Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Applications Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) QA Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) Playwright
2 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (16.67%) Low-Code
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (58.33%) DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (41.67%) Unit Testing
5 4 (33.33%) Code Coverage
5 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development
5 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (33.33%) Test Planning
5 4 (33.33%) Validation
5 4 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
6 3 (25.00%) Microservices
6 3 (25.00%) OO
7 2 (16.67%) Agile
7 2 (16.67%) Data Management
7 2 (16.67%) RAD
7 2 (16.67%) Security Testing
7 2 (16.67%) System Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Test Management
7 2 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Bash
2 4 (33.33%) C
3 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) C++
4 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Rancher
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) BiZZdesign
1 2 (16.67%) Black Duck
1 2 (16.67%) UiPath
1 2 (16.67%) VMware