QA Automation Tester Jobs in London

Automation QA Tester
England > London

The median Automation QA Tester salary in London is £87,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 508 620 845
Rank change year-on-year +112 +225 -230
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Automation Tester 4 10 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.017% 0.030% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.032% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 29
10th Percentile £44,625 - £47,000
25th Percentile £49,688 £58,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £120,000 £66,250 £76,250
90th Percentile - £72,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £48,750 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -22.00% +13.64% +22.22%

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 22,363 31,644 68,018
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.34% 95.15% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,672 23,333 34,565
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,360 £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 £52,550 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.57% +1.33% +9.09%

QA Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Tester in London

QA Automation Tester
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for QA Automation Tester in London

QA Automation Tester
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation Tester in London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation Tester in London

QA 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 QA Automation Tester within the London region over the 6 months to 23 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 +52 1 £42,500 -
QA Automation Tester
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, QA 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 QA Automation Tester in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) QA
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Front Office
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
3 2 (50.00%) Selenium
3 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) QA Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Playwright
3 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (25.00%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Swagger
4 1 (25.00%) Power BI
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Smoke Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (25.00%) NoSQL

QA 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 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JMeter
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (25.00%) TestNG
General
1 2 (50.00%) Front Office
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) PySpark
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
2 1 (25.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
3 2 (50.00%) QA Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) API Testing
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
4 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Product Management
4 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Smoke Testing
4 1 (25.00%) System Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle