QA Automation Engineer Jobs in London

Automation QA Engineer
England > London

The median Automation QA Engineer salary in London is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 534 789
Rank change year-on-year +39 +255 -282
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 11 96 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.047% 0.28% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.29% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 10 86 79
10th Percentile £51,875 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,813 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £65,375 £80,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -

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 22,236 32,746 65,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 94.99% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,670 24,087 34,614
10th Percentile £38,000 £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 £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

QA Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Engineer in London

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for QA Automation Engineer in London

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation Engineer in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation Engineer in London

QA Automation Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Central London +37 3 £62,500 +17.92%
QA Automation Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, QA Automation Engineer 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 QA Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) QA
1 11 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 11 (100.00%) QA Automation
2 8 (72.73%) Agile
3 7 (63.64%) Python
3 7 (63.64%) Java
3 7 (63.64%) Cucumber
3 7 (63.64%) BDD
4 6 (54.55%) Azure
4 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
4 6 (54.55%) API Testing
5 5 (45.45%) AWS
5 5 (45.45%) TDD
5 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
5 5 (45.45%) Test Strategy
6 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (36.36%) SDLC
6 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
7 3 (27.27%) Postman
7 3 (27.27%) Selenium
8 2 (18.18%) Integration Testing
8 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
8 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
8 2 (18.18%) Git
8 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
8 2 (18.18%) JUnit
8 2 (18.18%) Exploratory Testing
8 2 (18.18%) SDET
8 2 (18.18%) GitLab
8 2 (18.18%) Appium

QA Automation Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Cucumber
2 3 (27.27%) Postman
2 3 (27.27%) Selenium
3 2 (18.18%) Appium
3 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
3 2 (18.18%) Git
3 2 (18.18%) GitLab
3 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) JUnit
4 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 1 (9.09%) JIRA
4 1 (9.09%) JMeter
4 1 (9.09%) Mockito
4 1 (9.09%) REST Assured
4 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
4 1 (9.09%) TestComplete
4 1 (9.09%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) OpenCV
1 1 (9.09%) Playwright
1 1 (9.09%) pytest
1 1 (9.09%) React
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) Spring
1 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
1 1 (9.09%) Web Services
1 1 (9.09%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Bitcoin
1 1 (9.09%) Derivative
1 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Android
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 11 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (72.73%) Agile
3 7 (63.64%) BDD
4 6 (54.55%) API Testing
5 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
5 5 (45.45%) TDD
5 5 (45.45%) Test Strategy
6 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
6 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (36.36%) SDLC
7 2 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
7 2 (18.18%) Exploratory Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Integration Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (18.18%) SDET
7 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
8 1 (9.09%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Java
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) C++
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk