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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 103 36
Rank change year-on-year -2 -67 0
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 402 674 2,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.09% 2.85% 6.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 3.12% 7.15%
Number of salaries quoted 262 494 1,242
10th Percentile £42,525 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,975 £56,250 £55,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £89,688 £93,750
90th Percentile £109,750 £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 12,513 21,570 32,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.22% 91.16% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,302 15,997 23,624
10th Percentile £42,464 £37,500 £43,411
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,073 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% -6.57% +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%

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 13 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 13 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 +10 87 £80,000 - 51
East London -6 6 £47,500 -40.63% 10
South London -38 5 £46,500 -19.13% 11
West London +17 3 £30,000 -53.85% 11
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 10 (2.49%) Confluence
2 6 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.24%) Liferay
4 4 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.00%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (1.00%) CMS
4 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.00%) nginx
5 3 (0.75%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.50%) Apache
6 2 (0.50%) CICS
6 2 (0.50%) Drupal
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.25%) Camunda
Applications
1 8 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.00%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.75%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.75%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.50%) Shopify
5 1 (0.25%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 126 (31.34%) Azure
2 92 (22.89%) AWS
3 55 (13.68%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (9.20%) GCP
5 30 (7.46%) GitHub
6 24 (5.97%) Serverless
7 17 (4.23%) Power Platform
8 16 (3.98%) Amazon S3
8 16 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (3.98%) PaaS
8 16 (3.98%) SaaS
9 15 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (2.74%) Datadog
12 10 (2.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (2.49%) Entra ID
13 9 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.74%) HTTP
2 6 (1.49%) Bluetooth
2 6 (1.49%) VPN
3 4 (1.00%) Network Security
3 4 (1.00%) SSL
3 4 (1.00%) VLAN
3 4 (1.00%) Wireless
4 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.50%) ADSL
5 2 (0.50%) FTP
5 2 (0.50%) Internet
5 2 (0.50%) 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 40 (9.95%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (9.20%) NoSQL
3 30 (7.46%) Relational Database
4 20 (4.98%) MongoDB
5 18 (4.48%) MySQL
6 14 (3.48%) Power BI
6 14 (3.48%) SQL Server
7 12 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.99%) RDBMS
10 7 (1.74%) Big Data
11 6 (1.49%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.49%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.00%) Data Vault
12 4 (1.00%) DB2
12 4 (1.00%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.00%) Semantic Layer
13 3 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 67 (16.67%) Selenium
2 65 (16.17%) Git
3 39 (9.70%) Postman
4 38 (9.45%) Jenkins
5 31 (7.71%) JIRA
6 27 (6.72%) JMeter
7 25 (6.22%) Cypress.io
7 25 (6.22%) JUnit
8 19 (4.73%) GitLab
9 18 (4.48%) SoapUI
9 18 (4.48%) TestNG
10 17 (4.23%) Appium
11 15 (3.73%) Cucumber
12 14 (3.48%) Maven
13 13 (3.23%) Gradle
14 11 (2.74%) REST Assured
15 10 (2.49%) MSTest
16 9 (2.24%) Gatling
17 8 (1.99%) SonarQube
17 8 (1.99%) SpecFlow
General
1 125 (31.09%) Finance
2 108 (26.87%) Social Skills
3 54 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (10.45%) Banking
5 27 (6.72%) Front Office
6 22 (5.47%) Legal
7 21 (5.22%) Public Sector
8 16 (3.98%) Marketing
9 14 (3.48%) Law
10 13 (3.23%) Manufacturing
11 12 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (2.49%) Games
13 9 (2.24%) Electronics
13 9 (2.24%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.99%) Back Office
14 8 (1.99%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (1.24%) Advertising
17 4 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 112 (27.86%) Developer
2 104 (25.87%) Senior
3 54 (13.43%) Senior Developer
4 44 (10.95%) Software Engineer
5 41 (10.20%) QA Engineer
6 40 (9.95%) Lead
7 28 (6.97%) Test Engineer
8 25 (6.22%) Analyst
8 25 (6.22%) Tester
9 23 (5.72%) Python Developer
10 21 (5.22%) Senior Python Developer
11 16 (3.98%) Senior Software Engineer
11 16 (3.98%) Test Automation Engineer
12 15 (3.73%) C++ Developer
12 15 (3.73%) Test Manager
13 14 (3.48%) C++ Quantitative Developer
13 14 (3.48%) Linux Developer
13 14 (3.48%) Quantitative Developer
13 14 (3.48%) Senior C++ Developer
13 14 (3.48%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (11.19%) REST
2 42 (10.45%) .NET
3 38 (9.45%) CSS
3 38 (9.45%) RESTful
4 35 (8.71%) HTML
5 34 (8.46%) React
6 32 (7.96%) AngularJS
7 31 (7.71%) Playwright
8 24 (5.97%) Kafka
9 21 (5.22%) Node.js
9 21 (5.22%) Web Services
10 19 (4.73%) pytest
11 18 (4.48%) .NET Framework
11 18 (4.48%) Swagger
11 18 (4.48%) XML
12 17 (4.23%) Spring
13 16 (3.98%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 16 (3.98%) RabbitMQ
14 15 (3.73%) JSON
15 14 (3.48%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.71%) Algorithms
2 26 (6.47%) Cloud Native
3 24 (5.97%) Equities
3 24 (5.97%) Management Information System
4 21 (5.22%) Mobile App
5 18 (4.48%) Hedge funds
6 16 (3.98%) Data Structures
7 12 (2.99%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.74%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.74%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.49%) Blockchain
11 6 (1.49%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
11 6 (1.49%) Web3
12 5 (1.24%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 46 (11.44%) Linux
2 16 (3.98%) Android
3 10 (2.49%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.99%) Windows
5 6 (1.49%) Unix
6 5 (1.24%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.50%) zOS
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (48.26%) Agile
2 154 (38.31%) CI/CD
3 119 (29.60%) DevOps
4 111 (27.61%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (20.65%) Software Testing
6 75 (18.66%) Software Engineering
7 59 (14.68%) Microservices
8 56 (13.93%) Mentoring
9 55 (13.68%) Manual Testing
9 55 (13.68%) SDLC
10 51 (12.69%) Scrum
11 49 (12.19%) Test Scripting
12 47 (11.69%) Code Quality
12 47 (11.69%) Computer Science
12 47 (11.69%) Continuous Integration
13 46 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (10.70%) Containerisation
14 43 (10.70%) TDD
14 43 (10.70%) Test Strategy
15 37 (9.20%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 122 (30.35%) SQL
2 114 (28.36%) Python
3 87 (21.64%) JavaScript
4 83 (20.65%) Java
5 56 (13.93%) C#
6 48 (11.94%) TypeScript
7 31 (7.71%) C++
8 16 (3.98%) PowerShell
9 14 (3.48%) PHP
10 13 (3.23%) Go
11 11 (2.74%) Kotlin
12 10 (2.49%) C
13 8 (1.99%) Scala
13 8 (1.99%) Swift
13 8 (1.99%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.24%) Bash
14 5 (1.24%) Ladder Logic
14 5 (1.24%) Ruby
15 4 (1.00%) Rust
16 3 (0.75%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 72 (17.91%) Degree
2 39 (9.70%) ISTQB
3 27 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (5.22%) SC Cleared
4 21 (5.22%) Security Cleared
5 10 (2.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 9 (2.24%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.24%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.74%) ISEB
8 6 (1.49%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.00%) CCNP
10 4 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.00%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.00%) PMP
11 3 (0.75%) ACCA
11 3 (0.75%) CCNA
11 3 (0.75%) CIMA
11 3 (0.75%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (28.86%) QA
2 16 (3.98%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.49%) Software Quality Assurance
4 5 (1.24%) GDPR
4 5 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.24%) NCSC
5 4 (1.00%) PMO
6 3 (0.75%) NIST
7 2 (0.50%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.25%) JTAG
8 1 (0.25%) MiFID
8 1 (0.25%) PSD2
8 1 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 67 (16.67%) Docker
2 10 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.25%) KVM
5 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 59 (14.68%) Kubernetes
2 49 (12.19%) Terraform
3 14 (3.48%) Prometheus
4 10 (2.49%) Ansible
5 6 (1.49%) Grafana
5 6 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.24%) Argo
6 5 (1.24%) HP Quality Center
7 4 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.75%) Control-M
8 3 (0.75%) Kustomize
8 3 (0.75%) Packer
8 3 (0.75%) Rundeck
9 2 (0.50%) Istio
10 1 (0.25%) CFEngine
10 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (7.21%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.72%) Google
3 12 (2.99%) Databricks
4 8 (1.99%) SAP
4 8 (1.99%) Siebel
5 7 (1.74%) Cisco
5 7 (1.74%) Oracle
5 7 (1.74%) Red Hat
5 7 (1.74%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.24%) New Relic
6 5 (1.24%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.24%) Siemens
6 5 (1.24%) VMware
7 4 (1.00%) Citrix
7 4 (1.00%) IBM
7 4 (1.00%) Meraki
7 4 (1.00%) Remedy
7 4 (1.00%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.75%) Alteryx
8 3 (0.75%) Guidewire