Test Automation Jobs in Ipswich

Automated Testing
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Ipswich 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 26 23
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -6
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 3 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Ipswich 3.19% 1.02% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 1.20% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - £69,250
25th Percentile - £43,750 £79,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £47,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -47.22% +71.43%
75th Percentile £59,000 £51,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £62,600 - -
Suffolk median annual salary £53,000 £47,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +11.58% -47.22% +80.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 93 166 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Ipswich 98.94% 84.26% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 77 134 67
10th Percentile £25,625 £25,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,000 £28,438 £31,015
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -10.95% +23.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £71,300
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,250 £83,500
Suffolk median annual salary £66,100 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +65.25% - -5.88%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Ipswich

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Ipswich

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Ipswich

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Ipswich

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Ipswich over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Ipswich

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
General
1 3 (100.00%) Law
2 2 (66.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) QA Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Head of Development
2 1 (33.33%) Head of Product Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (33.33%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Defect Tracking
2 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft