Test Automation Jobs in London

Automated Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 36 37
Rank change year-on-year -71 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 660 2,476 6,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.81% 6.91% 9.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 7.25% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 484 1,312 2,254
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £69,078
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +8.57% -1.32%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £111,250 £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,454 34,168 63,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.39% 95.40% 96.83%
Number of salaries quoted 15,999 24,428 34,404
10th Percentile £38,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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 -21 119 £82,500 +6.45% 21
South London -23 45 £57,500 -9.80% 3
West London -58 8 £65,000 +30.00% 9
East London +17 3 £80,000 +57.64% 13
Test Automation
England

Test 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 28 (4.24%) Confluence
2 16 (2.42%) Apache
3 14 (2.12%) IIS
4 9 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.76%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.76%) nginx
7 4 (0.61%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.61%) WordPress
8 3 (0.45%) CMS
9 2 (0.30%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.30%) Moodle
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.15%) Drupal
10 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.15%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.30%) CiviCRM
3 2 (0.30%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.15%) Endur
4 1 (0.15%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 234 (35.45%) AWS
2 217 (32.88%) Azure
3 95 (14.39%) Azure DevOps
4 72 (10.91%) GCP
5 48 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
6 47 (7.12%) SaaS
7 46 (6.97%) Serverless
8 43 (6.52%) Amazon S3
9 32 (4.85%) GitHub
10 30 (4.55%) Power Platform
11 29 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (2.88%) PaaS
15 16 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (2.12%) OpenShift
17 11 (1.67%) Azure AKS
18 10 (1.52%) Amazon ECR
18 10 (1.52%) Azure Cognitive Services
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.73%) DNS
2 17 (2.58%) Internet
3 12 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.67%) Firewall
5 10 (1.52%) SNMP
5 10 (1.52%) tcpdump
6 6 (0.91%) HTTP
7 4 (0.61%) Wireless
8 2 (0.30%) SMTP
8 2 (0.30%) SSH
8 2 (0.30%) VoIP
9 1 (0.15%) 3G
9 1 (0.15%) Broadband
9 1 (0.15%) MQTT
9 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.15%) SMS
9 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 45 (6.82%) MongoDB
3 40 (6.06%) MySQL
4 38 (5.76%) NoSQL
5 35 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
6 34 (5.15%) Relational Database
7 28 (4.24%) Elasticsearch
8 25 (3.79%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (2.58%) DynamoDB
11 14 (2.12%) Big Data
12 10 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.52%) Metadata
12 10 (1.52%) RDBMS
13 9 (1.36%) DB2
13 9 (1.36%) Power BI
14 8 (1.21%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.91%) Hadoop
16 5 (0.76%) SAP BW
16 5 (0.76%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 109 (16.52%) Git
2 85 (12.88%) Selenium
3 75 (11.36%) Jenkins
4 67 (10.15%) JIRA
5 45 (6.82%) Cucumber
6 42 (6.36%) JUnit
7 29 (4.39%) JMeter
8 28 (4.24%) Cypress.io
9 27 (4.09%) WebDriver
10 25 (3.79%) GitLab
10 25 (3.79%) TeamCity
11 24 (3.64%) REST Assured
12 20 (3.03%) Postman
13 19 (2.88%) TestNG
14 16 (2.42%) SpecFlow
14 16 (2.42%) Visual Studio
15 12 (1.82%) SoapUI
15 12 (1.82%) SonarQube
16 11 (1.67%) Bitbucket
17 9 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 187 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 156 (23.64%) Finance
3 87 (13.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 65 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 56 (8.48%) Law
7 47 (7.12%) Banking
8 37 (5.61%) Marketing
9 25 (3.79%) Retail
10 22 (3.33%) Front Office
11 18 (2.73%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.97%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.97%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.97%) Legal
13 8 (1.21%) Back Office
14 7 (1.06%) Health Technology
14 7 (1.06%) Police
14 7 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 156 (23.64%) Developer
2 139 (21.06%) Senior
3 109 (16.52%) Lead
4 91 (13.79%) Software Engineer
5 52 (7.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (6.36%) Senior Developer
6 42 (6.36%) Tester
7 35 (5.30%) Analyst
8 33 (5.00%) Java Engineer
9 32 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
10 29 (4.39%) .NET Developer
10 29 (4.39%) Full Stack Developer
11 28 (4.24%) QA Engineer
12 23 (3.48%) Senior DevOps
12 23 (3.48%) Senior Software Engineer
13 22 (3.33%) Architect
13 22 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
13 22 (3.33%) Automation Tester
13 22 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 21 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (20.15%) .NET
2 103 (15.61%) REST
3 89 (13.48%) React
4 56 (8.48%) Web Services
5 52 (7.88%) JSON
6 51 (7.73%) AngularJS
7 48 (7.27%) Spring
8 42 (6.36%) HTML
9 40 (6.06%) Node.js
10 39 (5.91%) CSS
10 39 (5.91%) RESTful
11 38 (5.76%) XML
12 35 (5.30%) .NET Framework
12 35 (5.30%) ASP.NET
13 30 (4.55%) Spring Boot
14 28 (4.24%) Playwright
15 21 (3.18%) .NET Core
15 21 (3.18%) jQuery
16 20 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
16 20 (3.03%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.24%) Mobile App
2 27 (4.09%) Cloud Native
3 24 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 20 (3.03%) Data Structures
7 19 (2.88%) Blog
8 16 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (2.12%) Management Information System
11 13 (1.97%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.67%) Clustering
13 10 (1.52%) Blockchain
13 10 (1.52%) e-Learning
14 9 (1.36%) Client/Server
14 9 (1.36%) Hedge funds
15 8 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 8 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
16 7 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (8.48%) Linux
2 26 (3.94%) Windows
3 21 (3.18%) Android
4 19 (2.88%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.82%) Unix
6 11 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (48.79%) Agile
2 245 (37.12%) DevOps
3 211 (31.97%) CI/CD
4 160 (24.24%) Software Engineering
5 130 (19.70%) Microservices
6 124 (18.79%) Software Testing
7 116 (17.58%) Mentoring
8 111 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
9 104 (15.76%) Scrum
10 93 (14.09%) Continuous Integration
11 91 (13.79%) Test Strategy
12 90 (13.64%) TDD
13 76 (11.52%) Unit Testing
14 73 (11.06%) SDET
15 70 (10.61%) Coaching
16 69 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
17 65 (9.85%) Computer Science
17 65 (9.85%) Containerisation
18 62 (9.39%) Code Quality
19 61 (9.24%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 207 (31.36%) Java
2 178 (26.97%) Python
3 148 (22.42%) SQL
4 143 (21.67%) C#
5 137 (20.76%) JavaScript
6 84 (12.73%) TypeScript
7 51 (7.73%) PowerShell
8 29 (4.39%) Perl
9 25 (3.79%) Go
10 23 (3.48%) Bash
11 20 (3.03%) PHP
12 18 (2.73%) Kotlin
13 15 (2.27%) C++
14 14 (2.12%) Scala
14 14 (2.12%) T-SQL
15 11 (1.67%) Bicep
15 11 (1.67%) Shell Script
16 10 (1.52%) Swift
17 9 (1.36%) C
17 9 (1.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 79 (11.97%) Degree
2 52 (7.88%) Security Cleared
3 48 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (5.45%) SC Cleared
5 16 (2.42%) AWS Certification
6 13 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.82%) ISTQB
8 8 (1.21%) ISEB
9 7 (1.06%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.91%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.45%) ISEB Practitioner
12 3 (0.45%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.45%) Sun Certification
13 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 2 (0.30%) MCAD
14 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (20.00%) QA
2 21 (3.18%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.91%) ISO 9001
5 6 (0.91%) SLA
6 4 (0.61%) GDPR
6 4 (0.61%) NCSC
7 3 (0.45%) JTAG
8 2 (0.30%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.15%) ITGC
9 1 (0.15%) SOC 1
9 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (14.85%) Docker
2 10 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.61%) Firmware
5 4 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.45%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.30%) OpenSIPS
7 2 (0.30%) Varnish
7 2 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 119 (18.03%) Kubernetes
2 116 (17.58%) Terraform
3 51 (7.73%) Ansible
4 31 (4.70%) Puppet
5 21 (3.18%) Grafana
6 19 (2.88%) Progress Chef
7 14 (2.12%) Nagios
8 11 (1.67%) Salt
9 10 (1.52%) Graphite
9 10 (1.52%) HAProxy
9 10 (1.52%) Prometheus
9 10 (1.52%) vCenter Server
10 9 (1.36%) Packer
11 5 (0.76%) Control-M
11 5 (0.76%) Istio
11 5 (0.76%) Kibana
12 4 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.61%) Consul
13 3 (0.45%) logstash
13 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 65 (9.85%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.94%) Google
3 18 (2.73%) Oracle
4 14 (2.12%) Dynatrace
5 13 (1.97%) Databricks
5 13 (1.97%) IBM
6 12 (1.82%) YouTube
7 11 (1.67%) Red Hat
7 11 (1.67%) UiPath
8 10 (1.52%) Sybase
9 8 (1.21%) Xero
10 7 (1.06%) SAP
10 7 (1.06%) Splunk
11 6 (0.91%) Amplitude
11 6 (0.91%) Automation Anywhere
11 6 (0.91%) Blue Prism
11 6 (0.91%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.76%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.76%) New Relic
12 5 (0.76%) VMware