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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 36 37
Rank change year-on-year -71 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 666 2,499 6,039
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.83% 6.94% 9.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 7.27% 9.56%
Number of salaries quoted 491 1,323 2,245
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £46,100
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 £111,746 £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 21,539 34,378 63,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.43% 95.41% 96.83%
Number of salaries quoted 16,074 24,527 34,294
10th Percentile £38,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +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 25 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 25 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% 22
South London -22 45 £57,500 -2.13% 3
West London -64 9 £65,000 +30.00% 8
East London +13 3 £80,000 +57.64% 12
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 (4.20%) Confluence
2 16 (2.40%) Apache
3 14 (2.10%) IIS
4 9 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.05%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.75%) nginx
7 4 (0.60%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.60%) WordPress
8 2 (0.30%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.30%) CMS
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.30%) Moodle
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
9 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
9 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 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.75%) 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 (35.14%) AWS
2 219 (32.88%) Azure
3 95 (14.26%) Azure DevOps
4 73 (10.96%) GCP
5 47 (7.06%) Amazon EKS
5 47 (7.06%) SaaS
6 46 (6.91%) Serverless
7 43 (6.46%) Amazon S3
8 30 (4.50%) GitHub
8 30 (4.50%) Power Platform
9 29 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
12 19 (2.85%) PaaS
13 15 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (1.95%) OpenShift
16 11 (1.65%) Azure AKS
17 10 (1.50%) Azure Cognitive Services
17 10 (1.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.85%) DNS
2 18 (2.70%) Internet
3 13 (1.95%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.80%) Firewall
5 11 (1.65%) SNMP
5 11 (1.65%) tcpdump
6 6 (0.90%) HTTP
7 4 (0.60%) 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%) Multicast
9 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.15%) SMS
9 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (11.86%) SQL Server
2 45 (6.76%) MongoDB
3 40 (6.01%) MySQL
4 38 (5.71%) NoSQL
5 35 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (4.95%) Relational Database
7 29 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
8 25 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
9 24 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (2.55%) DynamoDB
11 14 (2.10%) Big Data
12 10 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.50%) Metadata
13 9 (1.35%) Power BI
13 9 (1.35%) RDBMS
14 8 (1.20%) Data Lake
14 8 (1.20%) DB2
15 7 (1.05%) Hadoop
16 5 (0.75%) SAP BW
16 5 (0.75%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 109 (16.37%) Git
2 86 (12.91%) Selenium
3 76 (11.41%) Jenkins
4 67 (10.06%) JIRA
5 45 (6.76%) Cucumber
6 42 (6.31%) JUnit
7 31 (4.65%) JMeter
8 29 (4.35%) WebDriver
9 28 (4.20%) Cypress.io
10 25 (3.75%) TeamCity
11 24 (3.60%) GitLab
11 24 (3.60%) REST Assured
12 20 (3.00%) Postman
13 19 (2.85%) TestNG
14 16 (2.40%) SpecFlow
14 16 (2.40%) Visual Studio
15 12 (1.80%) SoapUI
15 12 (1.80%) SonarQube
16 11 (1.65%) Bitbucket
17 9 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 188 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 155 (23.27%) Finance
3 85 (12.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 65 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (8.86%) Public Sector
6 56 (8.41%) Law
7 47 (7.06%) Banking
8 37 (5.56%) Marketing
9 25 (3.75%) Retail
10 22 (3.30%) Front Office
11 19 (2.85%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.95%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.95%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.95%) Legal
13 9 (1.35%) Back Office
14 8 (1.20%) Health Technology
15 7 (1.05%) Police
15 7 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 155 (23.27%) Developer
2 141 (21.17%) Senior
3 111 (16.67%) Lead
4 91 (13.66%) Software Engineer
5 53 (7.96%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (6.31%) Tester
7 41 (6.16%) Senior Developer
8 36 (5.41%) Analyst
9 33 (4.95%) Java Engineer
10 32 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (4.35%) .NET Developer
11 29 (4.35%) Full Stack Developer
12 28 (4.20%) QA Engineer
13 25 (3.75%) Senior DevOps
14 24 (3.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 23 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
16 22 (3.30%) Automation Tester
16 22 (3.30%) Data Engineer
17 21 (3.15%) Automation Engineer
17 21 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (20.12%) .NET
2 105 (15.77%) REST
3 90 (13.51%) React
4 56 (8.41%) Web Services
5 54 (8.11%) JSON
6 51 (7.66%) AngularJS
7 45 (6.76%) Spring
8 42 (6.31%) HTML
9 40 (6.01%) Node.js
9 40 (6.01%) RESTful
10 39 (5.86%) CSS
10 39 (5.86%) XML
11 37 (5.56%) .NET Framework
12 35 (5.26%) ASP.NET
13 29 (4.35%) Spring Boot
14 27 (4.05%) Playwright
15 22 (3.30%) jQuery
16 21 (3.15%) .NET Core
17 20 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
17 20 (3.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.20%) Cloud Native
1 28 (4.20%) Mobile App
2 23 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 21 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (3.00%) Data Structures
5 19 (2.85%) Blog
6 16 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (1.95%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.80%) Clustering
9 12 (1.80%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.35%) Blockchain
10 9 (1.35%) Client/Server
10 9 (1.35%) e-Learning
10 9 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.35%) Hedge funds
11 8 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (8.71%) Linux
2 27 (4.05%) Windows
3 21 (3.15%) Android
4 19 (2.85%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.80%) Unix
6 11 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (48.80%) Agile
2 245 (36.79%) DevOps
3 210 (31.53%) CI/CD
4 160 (24.02%) Software Engineering
5 133 (19.97%) Microservices
6 126 (18.92%) Software Testing
7 119 (17.87%) Mentoring
8 113 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
9 104 (15.62%) Scrum
10 93 (13.96%) Continuous Integration
11 91 (13.66%) TDD
12 90 (13.51%) Test Strategy
13 76 (11.41%) SDET
13 76 (11.41%) Unit Testing
14 70 (10.51%) Continuous Improvement
15 69 (10.36%) Coaching
16 65 (9.76%) Containerisation
17 64 (9.61%) Computer Science
18 63 (9.46%) Code Quality
19 61 (9.16%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 204 (30.63%) Java
2 179 (26.88%) Python
3 149 (22.37%) SQL
4 145 (21.77%) C#
5 138 (20.72%) JavaScript
6 85 (12.76%) TypeScript
7 52 (7.81%) PowerShell
8 29 (4.35%) Perl
9 28 (4.20%) Go
10 25 (3.75%) Bash
11 23 (3.45%) PHP
12 19 (2.85%) Kotlin
13 15 (2.25%) C++
14 14 (2.10%) Scala
14 14 (2.10%) T-SQL
15 11 (1.65%) Bicep
15 11 (1.65%) Shell Script
16 10 (1.50%) Rust
16 10 (1.50%) Swift
17 9 (1.35%) C
Qualifications
1 80 (12.01%) Degree
2 52 (7.81%) Security Cleared
3 47 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 16 (2.40%) AWS Certification
6 13 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.65%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.05%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.05%) ISEB
9 6 (0.90%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.45%) Sun Certification
12 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.30%) ISEB Practitioner
12 2 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 2 (0.30%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.30%) MCAD
13 1 (0.15%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (19.82%) QA
2 21 (3.15%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.95%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.90%) ISO 9001
5 6 (0.90%) SLA
6 4 (0.60%) GDPR
6 4 (0.60%) 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
1 101 (15.17%) Docker
2 11 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.60%) Firmware
5 4 (0.60%) 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
1 122 (18.32%) Kubernetes
2 116 (17.42%) Terraform
3 51 (7.66%) Ansible
4 32 (4.80%) Puppet
5 21 (3.15%) Grafana
6 19 (2.85%) Progress Chef
7 15 (2.25%) Nagios
8 11 (1.65%) Salt
8 11 (1.65%) vCenter Server
9 10 (1.50%) Graphite
9 10 (1.50%) HAProxy
10 9 (1.35%) Packer
10 9 (1.35%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.75%) Control-M
11 5 (0.75%) Istio
11 5 (0.75%) Kibana
12 4 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.60%) Consul
13 3 (0.45%) logstash
13 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 65 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.90%) Google
3 16 (2.40%) Oracle
4 13 (1.95%) Databricks
4 13 (1.95%) Dynatrace
5 12 (1.80%) IBM
5 12 (1.80%) YouTube
6 11 (1.65%) UiPath
7 10 (1.50%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.35%) Sybase
9 8 (1.20%) Xero
10 7 (1.05%) SAP
10 7 (1.05%) Splunk
11 6 (0.90%) Amplitude
11 6 (0.90%) Automation Anywhere
11 6 (0.90%) Blue Prism
11 6 (0.90%) New Relic
11 6 (0.90%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.75%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.75%) VMware