Test Automation Job Trends in London

Automated Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 104 93
Rank change year-on-year +39 -11 -58
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 586 457 691
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.46% 3.36% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 3.50% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 369 275 525
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,251 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +1.35%
75th Percentile £105,000 £90,995 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £111,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -6.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Test 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 14,477 13,067 20,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 85.44% 96.22% 91.62%
Number of salaries quoted 9,388 7,587 15,910
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,442 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +4.06% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in London

Test Automation
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in London over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in London

Test 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 Test Automation within the London region over the 6 months to 14 March 2026. 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 +11 104 £90,000 +13.21% 67
East London -8 11 £115,000 +142.11% 9
South London +36 4 £70,000 +27.27% 8
West London -16 4 £82,500 +175.00% 8
North London - 1 £45,000 - 2
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (2.90%) Confluence
3 15 (2.56%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.05%) Appian
5 9 (1.54%) Jupyter
6 8 (1.37%) Apache
7 5 (0.85%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.68%) WordPress
9 2 (0.34%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.17%) Camunda
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (1.71%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.68%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 4 (0.68%) Shopify
2 3 (0.51%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 199 (33.96%) AWS
2 189 (32.25%) Azure
3 106 (18.09%) GCP
4 64 (10.92%) Azure DevOps
5 60 (10.24%) Amazon EKS
6 55 (9.39%) SaaS
7 41 (7.00%) GitHub
8 36 (6.14%) Serverless
9 28 (4.78%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (4.44%) Amazon S3
10 26 (4.44%) Datadog
11 25 (4.27%) Power Platform
12 23 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (3.92%) Nutanix
13 22 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
14 20 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (3.41%) PaaS
15 18 (3.07%) Azure AI
16 17 (2.90%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.88%) CHAP
2 6 (1.02%) DNS
2 6 (1.02%) Firewall
3 4 (0.68%) VPN
4 3 (0.51%) Broadband
4 3 (0.51%) HTTP
4 3 (0.51%) Multicast
5 2 (0.34%) SAN
5 2 (0.34%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.34%) VSAN
6 1 (0.17%) AMQP
6 1 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.17%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.17%) FTP
6 1 (0.17%) Internet
6 1 (0.17%) SNMP
6 1 (0.17%) SSH
6 1 (0.17%) TACACS
6 1 (0.17%) WAN
6 1 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.48%) SQL Server
2 37 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (5.80%) Relational Database
4 32 (5.46%) NoSQL
5 17 (2.90%) DynamoDB
6 14 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (2.39%) MySQL
6 14 (2.39%) Power BI
7 13 (2.22%) DB2
8 12 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (2.05%) Pinecone
9 8 (1.37%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.19%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.68%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (0.68%) Metadata
12 4 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 72 (12.29%) Selenium
2 63 (10.75%) TeamCity
3 51 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 42 (7.17%) JIRA
5 35 (5.97%) GitLab
6 34 (5.80%) Cucumber
7 33 (5.63%) Git
8 27 (4.61%) Cypress.io
9 24 (4.10%) MLflow
10 19 (3.24%) Postman
11 16 (2.73%) CircleCI
12 15 (2.56%) SpecFlow
13 12 (2.05%) JMeter
14 10 (1.71%) Bitbucket
14 10 (1.71%) WebDriver
15 7 (1.19%) Appium
15 7 (1.19%) LoadRunner
15 7 (1.19%) REST Assured
16 6 (1.02%) JUnit
17 5 (0.85%) Claude Code
General
1 252 (43.00%) Finance
2 206 (35.15%) Social Skills
3 145 (24.74%) Banking
4 96 (16.38%) Law
5 85 (14.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 73 (12.46%) Retail
7 57 (9.73%) Financial Institution
8 52 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
9 43 (7.34%) Back Office
10 37 (6.31%) Front Office
11 27 (4.61%) Public Sector
12 10 (1.71%) Legal
13 9 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.19%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.19%) Marketing
15 6 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.02%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 181 (30.89%) Senior
2 103 (17.58%) Developer
2 103 (17.58%) Software Engineer
3 83 (14.16%) Lead
4 55 (9.39%) Senior Developer
5 50 (8.53%) Java Engineer
6 42 (7.17%) Senior Software Engineer
7 32 (5.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 32 (5.46%) Python Developer
8 29 (4.95%) Senior Java Engineer
9 28 (4.78%) Java Software Engineer
10 27 (4.61%) Automation Engineer
10 27 (4.61%) QA Engineer
10 27 (4.61%) Tester
11 25 (4.27%) Test Engineer
12 21 (3.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 21 (3.58%) Senior Python Developer
13 20 (3.41%) Data Engineer
13 20 (3.41%) Low Latency C++ Developer
13 20 (3.41%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (11.09%) React
2 64 (10.92%) .NET
3 46 (7.85%) RESTful
4 43 (7.34%) Kafka
5 41 (7.00%) Playwright
6 39 (6.66%) REST
7 37 (6.31%) Node.js
7 37 (6.31%) Spring
8 29 (4.95%) pytest
8 29 (4.95%) PyTorch
9 26 (4.44%) Spring Boot
10 24 (4.10%) CSS
10 24 (4.10%) HTML
11 21 (3.58%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 20 (3.41%) TensorFlow
13 17 (2.90%) Django
13 17 (2.90%) Web Services
13 17 (2.90%) YAML
14 16 (2.73%) Gherkin
14 16 (2.73%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 127 (21.67%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.17%) Management Information System
3 37 (6.31%) Product Ownership
4 27 (4.61%) Hedge funds
5 24 (4.10%) Equities
6 22 (3.75%) Algorithms
6 22 (3.75%) Mobile App
7 21 (3.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (3.41%) Data Structures
9 17 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
9 17 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
9 17 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 15 (2.56%) Blog
12 14 (2.39%) Low-Code
12 14 (2.39%) Onboarding
13 13 (2.22%) Public Cloud
14 12 (2.05%) Blockchain
14 12 (2.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 50 (8.53%) Linux
2 24 (4.10%) Android
3 22 (3.75%) Apple iOS
4 15 (2.56%) Windows
5 10 (1.71%) Unix
6 4 (0.68%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.17%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (55.12%) CI/CD
2 211 (36.01%) Agile
3 169 (28.84%) DevOps
4 152 (25.94%) Software Engineering
5 119 (20.31%) AI
5 119 (20.31%) Microservices
6 117 (19.97%) Problem-Solving
7 111 (18.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 101 (17.24%) Clean Code
9 94 (16.04%) Mentoring
10 83 (14.16%) Deployment Automation
11 81 (13.82%) Containerisation
12 76 (12.97%) Fintech
13 75 (12.80%) Full-Stack Development
14 74 (12.63%) Infrastructure as Code
15 73 (12.46%) Observability
16 69 (11.77%) Test Strategy
17 67 (11.43%) Software Testing
18 66 (11.26%) Analytics
19 63 (10.75%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 195 (33.28%) Python
2 189 (32.25%) Java
3 128 (21.84%) SQL
4 94 (16.04%) JavaScript
5 72 (12.29%) TypeScript
6 58 (9.90%) C#
7 47 (8.02%) PowerShell
8 28 (4.78%) C++
9 26 (4.44%) Go
10 18 (3.07%) Bash
11 12 (2.05%) PHP
12 11 (1.88%) Bicep
12 11 (1.88%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.71%) Rust
14 5 (0.85%) VBA
15 4 (0.68%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.51%) RPG
17 2 (0.34%) Perl
17 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 67 (11.43%) Degree
2 34 (5.80%) Security Cleared
3 32 (5.46%) ISTQB
4 31 (5.29%) SC Cleared
5 22 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.56%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.56%) CEH
7 13 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.22%) PhD
8 12 (2.05%) CISA
9 11 (1.88%) CGEIT
9 11 (1.88%) CISM
9 11 (1.88%) CISSP
9 11 (1.88%) FFIEC
9 11 (1.88%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.88%) SANS
10 8 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.19%) ISEB
11 7 (1.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 6 (1.02%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (18.77%) QA
2 40 (6.83%) NIST
3 34 (5.80%) Data Quality
4 32 (5.46%) Accessibility
5 29 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (2.90%) GDPR
7 15 (2.56%) ISO 22301
8 11 (1.88%) COBIT
9 8 (1.37%) NCSC
10 5 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.85%) WCAG
11 4 (0.68%) SLA
11 4 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.34%) PMO
12 2 (0.34%) PSD2
12 2 (0.34%) Section 508
13 1 (0.17%) MiFID
13 1 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 100 (17.06%) Docker
2 6 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.34%) vSphere
4 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 163 (27.82%) Kubernetes
2 125 (21.33%) Terraform
3 77 (13.14%) Grafana
4 29 (4.95%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.58%) Ansible
6 5 (0.85%) Argo
7 4 (0.68%) logstash
8 3 (0.51%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.34%) VxRail
10 1 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 45 (7.68%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.78%) Databricks
3 24 (4.10%) VMware
4 21 (3.58%) Commvault
5 18 (3.07%) OpenAI
6 17 (2.90%) SAP
7 15 (2.56%) Google
8 12 (2.05%) Automation Anywhere
8 12 (2.05%) UiPath
9 8 (1.37%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.37%) Oracle
9 8 (1.37%) Splunk
10 7 (1.19%) Guidewire
11 4 (0.68%) Blue Prism
11 4 (0.68%) Cisco
11 4 (0.68%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.68%) Pega
11 4 (0.68%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.68%) Workday
12 3 (0.51%) IBM