Test Automation Jobs in London

Automated Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 106 36
Rank change year-on-year -1 -70 -2
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 408 664 2,317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.14% 2.80% 6.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.26% 3.08% 7.20%
Number of salaries quoted 268 481 1,238
10th Percentile £45,150 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,293
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.41% +5.71%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

All Process and 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 12,511 21,542 32,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.22% 90.96% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,249 15,908 23,258
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £43,224
25th Percentile £55,322 £51,488 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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 20 May 2025.

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 20 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 +12 90 £80,000 - 71
East London -9 5 £47,500 -40.63% 10
South London -38 5 £46,500 -19.13% 13
West London +16 2 £52,500 -17.65% 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 11 (2.70%) Confluence
2 6 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.23%) Liferay
4 4 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.98%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (0.98%) CMS
4 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.98%) nginx
5 3 (0.74%) Apache
5 3 (0.74%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.49%) CICS
6 2 (0.49%) Drupal
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.25%) Camunda
Applications
1 8 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.98%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (3.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.74%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.49%) Shopify
5 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.25%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 130 (31.86%) Azure
2 92 (22.55%) AWS
3 58 (14.22%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (9.31%) GCP
5 29 (7.11%) GitHub
6 25 (6.13%) Serverless
7 18 (4.41%) PaaS
8 17 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (4.17%) Power Platform
9 16 (3.92%) Amazon S3
9 16 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (3.92%) SaaS
10 14 (3.43%) Cloud Computing
11 13 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (3.19%) Datadog
12 11 (2.70%) Entra ID
13 10 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.47%) HTTP
1 6 (1.47%) VPN
2 5 (1.23%) Bluetooth
2 5 (1.23%) SSL
2 5 (1.23%) VLAN
2 5 (1.23%) Wireless
3 4 (0.98%) Network Security
4 3 (0.74%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.49%) ADSL
5 2 (0.49%) FTP
5 2 (0.49%) Internet
5 2 (0.49%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.25%) AMQP
6 1 (0.25%) BGP
6 1 (0.25%) DNS
6 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.25%) Firewall
6 1 (0.25%) FlexRay
6 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (9.56%) NoSQL
3 30 (7.35%) Relational Database
4 20 (4.90%) MongoDB
5 19 (4.66%) MySQL
6 14 (3.43%) Power BI
6 14 (3.43%) SQL Server
7 12 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.96%) RDBMS
10 7 (1.72%) Big Data
10 7 (1.72%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.47%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.98%) Data Vault
12 4 (0.98%) DB2
12 4 (0.98%) Delta Lake
12 4 (0.98%) Semantic Layer
13 3 (0.74%) Redis
13 3 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 67 (16.42%) Selenium
2 64 (15.69%) Git
3 38 (9.31%) Jenkins
3 38 (9.31%) Postman
4 31 (7.60%) JIRA
5 27 (6.62%) JMeter
6 26 (6.37%) Cypress.io
7 25 (6.13%) JUnit
8 20 (4.90%) GitLab
9 18 (4.41%) SoapUI
9 18 (4.41%) TestNG
10 17 (4.17%) Appium
11 15 (3.68%) Cucumber
12 14 (3.43%) Maven
13 13 (3.19%) Gradle
14 11 (2.70%) REST Assured
15 10 (2.45%) MSTest
16 9 (2.21%) Gatling
17 8 (1.96%) SonarQube
17 8 (1.96%) SpecFlow
General
1 131 (32.11%) Finance
2 111 (27.21%) Social Skills
3 54 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (10.05%) Banking
5 29 (7.11%) Front Office
6 22 (5.39%) Public Sector
7 21 (5.15%) Legal
8 17 (4.17%) Marketing
9 16 (3.92%) Law
10 13 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (3.19%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.70%) Back Office
12 9 (2.21%) Electronics
12 9 (2.21%) Games
12 9 (2.21%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.96%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.23%) Advertising
15 5 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.98%) Retail
Job Titles
1 116 (28.43%) Developer
2 102 (25.00%) Senior
3 55 (13.48%) Senior Developer
4 42 (10.29%) Software Engineer
5 41 (10.05%) Lead
6 39 (9.56%) QA Engineer
7 28 (6.86%) Test Engineer
8 25 (6.13%) Analyst
9 24 (5.88%) Python Developer
10 23 (5.64%) Tester
11 22 (5.39%) Senior Python Developer
12 16 (3.92%) C++ Developer
12 16 (3.92%) Test Automation Engineer
13 15 (3.68%) C++ Quantitative Developer
13 15 (3.68%) Linux Developer
13 15 (3.68%) Low Latency C++ Developer
13 15 (3.68%) Quantitative Developer
13 15 (3.68%) Senior C++ Developer
13 15 (3.68%) Senior Quantitative Developer
13 15 (3.68%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (10.78%) .NET
1 44 (10.78%) REST
2 40 (9.80%) RESTful
3 35 (8.58%) CSS
4 33 (8.09%) React
5 32 (7.84%) HTML
6 31 (7.60%) AngularJS
6 31 (7.60%) Playwright
7 25 (6.13%) Kafka
8 22 (5.39%) Node.js
9 21 (5.15%) .NET Framework
10 20 (4.90%) Web Services
11 18 (4.41%) pytest
11 18 (4.41%) Swagger
12 17 (4.17%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 17 (4.17%) Spring
12 17 (4.17%) XML
13 16 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
14 15 (3.68%) FIX Protocol
14 15 (3.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.60%) Algorithms
2 26 (6.37%) Cloud Native
3 25 (6.13%) Equities
3 25 (6.13%) Management Information System
4 19 (4.66%) Hedge funds
4 19 (4.66%) Mobile App
5 17 (4.17%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.96%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.72%) Blockchain
9 7 (1.72%) Web3
10 6 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.47%) Reinsurance
10 6 (1.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 5 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (11.76%) Linux
2 15 (3.68%) Android
3 10 (2.45%) Windows
4 9 (2.21%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.72%) Unix
6 4 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.98%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.49%) zOS
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (48.53%) Agile
2 162 (39.71%) CI/CD
3 126 (30.88%) DevOps
4 109 (26.72%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (20.34%) Software Testing
6 73 (17.89%) Software Engineering
7 60 (14.71%) Microservices
8 55 (13.48%) Manual Testing
8 55 (13.48%) Mentoring
8 55 (13.48%) SDLC
9 54 (13.24%) Scrum
10 48 (11.76%) Test Scripting
11 47 (11.52%) Code Quality
11 47 (11.52%) Computer Science
11 47 (11.52%) Continuous Integration
12 45 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (10.78%) Test Strategy
14 43 (10.54%) Containerisation
14 43 (10.54%) TDD
15 38 (9.31%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 123 (30.15%) SQL
2 116 (28.43%) Python
3 87 (21.32%) Java
4 83 (20.34%) JavaScript
5 57 (13.97%) C#
6 48 (11.76%) TypeScript
7 31 (7.60%) C++
8 19 (4.66%) PowerShell
9 15 (3.68%) Go
10 14 (3.43%) PHP
11 10 (2.45%) Kotlin
12 9 (2.21%) C
13 8 (1.96%) Scala
14 7 (1.72%) Swift
14 7 (1.72%) T-SQL
15 6 (1.47%) Bash
16 5 (1.23%) Ruby
17 4 (0.98%) Ladder Logic
17 4 (0.98%) Rust
18 3 (0.74%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 73 (17.89%) Degree
2 39 (9.56%) ISTQB
3 26 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (5.15%) SC Cleared
4 21 (5.15%) Security Cleared
5 10 (2.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 9 (2.21%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.21%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.72%) ISEB
8 6 (1.47%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.98%) CCNP
10 4 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.98%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.98%) PMP
11 3 (0.74%) ACCA
11 3 (0.74%) CCNA
11 3 (0.74%) CIMA
11 3 (0.74%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (28.19%) QA
2 16 (3.92%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.45%) Software Quality Assurance
4 6 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.47%) NCSC
5 5 (1.23%) GDPR
6 4 (0.98%) NIST
6 4 (0.98%) PMO
7 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) JTAG
7 1 (0.25%) MiFID
7 1 (0.25%) PSD2
7 1 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 68 (16.67%) Docker
2 11 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.49%) KVM
5 2 (0.49%) Xen
Systems Management
1 61 (14.95%) Kubernetes
2 51 (12.50%) Terraform
3 15 (3.68%) Prometheus
4 10 (2.45%) Ansible
5 6 (1.47%) Grafana
5 6 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.23%) Argo
6 5 (1.23%) HP Quality Center
6 5 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.74%) Control-M
7 3 (0.74%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.74%) Packer
7 3 (0.74%) Rundeck
8 2 (0.49%) CFEngine
8 2 (0.49%) Istio
8 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.49%) Puppet
9 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 30 (7.35%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.88%) Google
3 12 (2.94%) Databricks
4 11 (2.70%) Siebel
5 8 (1.96%) Cisco
5 8 (1.96%) Oracle
5 8 (1.96%) SAP
6 7 (1.72%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.47%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.47%) VMware
8 5 (1.23%) Meraki
8 5 (1.23%) New Relic
8 5 (1.23%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.98%) Citrix
9 4 (0.98%) Guidewire
9 4 (0.98%) IBM
9 4 (0.98%) Remedy
9 4 (0.98%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.98%) Siemens
10 3 (0.74%) Apple