Automation Tester Jobs in London

Automation Tester
England > London

The median Automation Tester salary in London is £61,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 473 580 703
Rank change year-on-year +107 +123 -215
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Tester 22 58 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.093% 0.16% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.17% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 18 48 79
10th Percentile £43,875 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £73,438 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,250 £68,250 £77,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 22,150 34,100 62,950
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 95.04% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,676 24,965 34,895
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,375 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in London

Automation Tester
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Automation Tester in London.

Salary trend for Automation Tester in London

Automation Tester
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Tester in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Automation Tester in London

Automation Tester
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Tester within the London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
South London +5 9 £70,000 +9.80%
Central London +51 1 £42,500 -15.00%
Automation Tester
England

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Automation Tester job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 17 (77.27%) Java
3 15 (68.18%) Selenium
4 14 (63.64%) API Testing
4 14 (63.64%) REST Assured
5 12 (54.55%) Cucumber
5 12 (54.55%) BDD
5 12 (54.55%) Agile
5 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
6 11 (50.00%) Code Quality
6 11 (50.00%) TestNG
6 11 (50.00%) SDET
6 11 (50.00%) Docker
7 10 (45.45%) REST
7 10 (45.45%) Kubernetes
7 10 (45.45%) WireMock
7 10 (45.45%) JUnit
8 9 (40.91%) Apache
8 9 (40.91%) WebDriver
8 9 (40.91%) Software Testing
8 9 (40.91%) Scenario Testing
8 9 (40.91%) Apache Commons
8 9 (40.91%) Java Concurrency
8 9 (40.91%) Guava
8 9 (40.91%) Design Patterns
8 9 (40.91%) Containerisation
9 8 (36.36%) Public Sector
9 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
9 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
9 8 (36.36%) Scrum

Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 9 (40.91%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) GitHub
2 3 (13.64%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.09%) SaaS
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.55%) BrowserStack
4 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
1 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (68.18%) Selenium
2 14 (63.64%) REST Assured
3 12 (54.55%) Cucumber
4 11 (50.00%) TestNG
5 10 (45.45%) JUnit
6 9 (40.91%) WebDriver
7 7 (31.82%) Jenkins
7 7 (31.82%) SoapUI
8 4 (18.18%) Git
9 3 (13.64%) JIRA
9 3 (13.64%) JMeter
10 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
10 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (9.09%) Cypress.io
10 2 (9.09%) Serenity BDD
10 2 (9.09%) SpecFlow
11 1 (4.55%) Appium
11 1 (4.55%) Postman
11 1 (4.55%) Subversion
11 1 (4.55%) XCUITest
General
1 8 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.09%) Front Office
3 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) REST
1 10 (45.45%) WireMock
2 9 (40.91%) Apache Commons
2 9 (40.91%) Guava
2 9 (40.91%) Java Concurrency
3 3 (13.64%) RESTful
3 3 (13.64%) Web Services
4 2 (9.09%) Playwright
4 2 (9.09%) SOAP
5 1 (4.55%) .NET
5 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (4.55%) Celery
5 1 (4.55%) CSS
5 1 (4.55%) Gherkin
5 1 (4.55%) HTML
5 1 (4.55%) jQuery
5 1 (4.55%) Kafka
5 1 (4.55%) React
5 1 (4.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 14 (63.64%) API Testing
3 12 (54.55%) Agile
3 12 (54.55%) BDD
3 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 11 (50.00%) Code Quality
4 11 (50.00%) SDET
5 9 (40.91%) Containerisation
5 9 (40.91%) Design Patterns
5 9 (40.91%) Scenario Testing
5 9 (40.91%) Software Testing
6 8 (36.36%) Scrum
7 6 (27.27%) Microservices
8 5 (22.73%) DevOps
9 4 (18.18%) Continuous Deployment
9 4 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (13.64%) Task Automation
11 2 (9.09%) Creative Problem-Solving
11 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) Java
2 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.64%) C#
3 3 (13.64%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) ISEB
3 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Consul
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) Databricks