Test Automation Jobs in Milton Keynes

Automated Testing
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 50 66
Rank change year-on-year +16 +16 -23
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 6 39 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 2.41% 3.69% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 4.30% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1 14 5
10th Percentile - - £43,050
25th Percentile £59,250 £43,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.37% -5.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £61,750 £52,500 £67,500
90th Percentile - £53,750 £69,750
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £60,250 £47,500 £48,250
% change year-on-year +26.84% -1.55% -19.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 232 907 779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 93.17% 85.89% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 118 624 509
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £28,450
25th Percentile £48,000 £41,000 £34,324
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £76,007 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,375 £80,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £50,967 £45,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +13.26% -12.62% -1.90%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Milton Keynes

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Milton Keynes

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (33.33%) Robot Framework
3 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) JPA
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) Redux
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (33.33%) System Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Test Management
3 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Solace