QA Automation Jobs in London

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring QA Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA Automation over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 484 480
Rank change year-on-year +95 -4 +154
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 14 25 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.11% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.12% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 8 24 124
10th Percentile £46,750 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,125 £51,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £76,250 £65,938 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,625 £70,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

QA 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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,380 21,506 33,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.21% 91.20% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,381 16,006 23,827
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £43,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in London

QA Automation
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for QA Automation in London

QA Automation
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA Automation in London

QA Automation
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Central London +23 1 £52,500 -23.64%
West London - 1 £75,000 -
QA Automation
England

QA Automation
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 (7.14%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) BrowserStack
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) GCP
2 4 (28.57%) Sauce Labs
3 2 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Appium
1 5 (35.71%) JUnit
1 5 (35.71%) TestNG
2 4 (28.57%) Git
2 4 (28.57%) JIRA
3 3 (21.43%) Selenium
4 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
4 2 (14.29%) WebDriver
5 1 (7.14%) Maven
5 1 (7.14%) NeoLoad
5 1 (7.14%) REST Assured
5 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
5 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (35.71%) Legal
2 4 (28.57%) Games
2 4 (28.57%) iGaming
2 4 (28.57%) Publishing
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) QA Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) QA Automation Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Python Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Technical Architect
4 3 (21.43%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Android Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Automation Tester
5 2 (14.29%) QA Automation Tester
5 2 (14.29%) QA Test Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) QA Tester
5 2 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Tester
6 1 (7.14%) Manual Tester
6 1 (7.14%) QA Manual Tester
6 1 (7.14%) Software QA Tester
6 1 (7.14%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) REST
2 4 (28.57%) pytest
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.14%) CSS
3 1 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
3 1 (7.14%) HTML
3 1 (7.14%) JSON
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js
3 1 (7.14%) OpenCV
3 1 (7.14%) React
3 1 (7.14%) WebSockets
3 1 (7.14%) XML
3 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 4 (28.57%) Mobile Games
1 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
1 4 (28.57%) Public Cloud
1 4 (28.57%) Sports Betting
2 3 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Android
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 7 (50.00%) Agile
3 7 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 4 (28.57%) API Design
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (28.57%) E-Commerce
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (28.57%) Kanban
4 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 4 (28.57%) Scrum
4 4 (28.57%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 2 (14.29%) Defect Tracking
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Manual Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Regression Testing
5 2 (14.29%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Argo
2 3 (21.43%) Kustomize
2 3 (21.43%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Google
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft