Test Automation Engineer Jobs in London

Automation Test Engineer
England > London

The median Automation Test Engineer salary in London is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 494 539
Rank change year-on-year +110 +45 +213
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 16 13 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.055% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.059% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 14 10 77
10th Percentile £39,778 £24,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,125 £41,563 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -18.52%
75th Percentile £66,938 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £71,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £42,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +41.18% -22.73% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 11,467 22,216 33,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.11% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,483 16,715 24,685
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,112 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Engineer in London

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Test Automation Engineer in London

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation Engineer in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation Engineer in London

Test 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 Test Automation Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 3 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 +30 4 £65,500 -12.67%
West London - 1 £75,000 - 1
Test Automation Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Test 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 Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (56.25%) QA
3 8 (50.00%) Selenium
3 8 (50.00%) SQL
4 7 (43.75%) Validation
5 6 (37.50%) Azure
5 6 (37.50%) Postman
6 5 (31.25%) SoapUI
6 5 (31.25%) Manual Testing
6 5 (31.25%) Agile
6 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
7 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
7 4 (25.00%) Regression Testing
7 4 (25.00%) Time Management
7 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
7 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
7 4 (25.00%) Degree
7 4 (25.00%) API Testing
7 4 (25.00%) PMO
7 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
7 4 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
8 3 (18.75%) Playwright
8 3 (18.75%) Analytics
8 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
8 3 (18.75%) DevOps
8 3 (18.75%) Software Testing
8 3 (18.75%) Test Management
8 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
8 3 (18.75%) Git

Test 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Big Data
1 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Selenium
2 6 (37.50%) Postman
3 5 (31.25%) SoapUI
4 3 (18.75%) Git
5 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
5 2 (12.50%) JIRA
5 2 (12.50%) JMeter
5 2 (12.50%) MSTest
5 2 (12.50%) NUnit
5 2 (12.50%) Robot Framework
6 1 (6.25%) Appium
6 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
6 1 (6.25%) JUnit
6 1 (6.25%) LoadRunner
6 1 (6.25%) Locust
6 1 (6.25%) REST Assured
6 1 (6.25%) TestRail
6 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (6.25%) Law
2 1 (6.25%) Legal
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Playwright
2 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.25%) CSS
3 1 (6.25%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) OpenCV
3 1 (6.25%) pytest
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) Swagger
3 1 (6.25%) Web Services
3 1 (6.25%) XML
3 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (43.75%) Validation
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) Manual Testing
4 4 (25.00%) API Testing
4 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (25.00%) Time Management
5 3 (18.75%) Analytics
5 3 (18.75%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) ETL
5 3 (18.75%) Software Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Test Management
5 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
6 2 (12.50%) Mathematics
6 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) TDD
6 2 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) C#
3 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
4 2 (12.50%) Python
4 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
5 1 (6.25%) Bash
5 1 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.25%) CISSP
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (56.25%) QA
2 4 (25.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Databricks
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft