Test Automation Jobs in Oxford

Automated Testing
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxford 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 58 43
Rank change year-on-year +44 -15 -27
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 23 9 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 10.36% 1.38% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.60% 1.58% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 8
10th Percentile - £46,250 £44,125
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,313 £61,250
90th Percentile - £67,375 £66,500
Oxfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% -32.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 217 569 422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 97.75% 87.00% 94.41%
Number of salaries quoted 120 419 244
10th Percentile £43,625 £29,800 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £40,813 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £64,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,125 £75,000 £85,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Oxford

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Oxford

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Oxford

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) AWS
1 5 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (21.74%) Serverless
2 3 (13.04%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
1 2 (8.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) DynamoDB
2 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (69.57%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) Cucumber
2 2 (8.70%) Robot Framework
General
1 13 (56.52%) Aerospace
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Developer
1 5 (21.74%) Senior
1 5 (21.74%) Senior Developer
1 5 (21.74%) Senior Software Developer
1 5 (21.74%) Software Developer
2 2 (8.70%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (8.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (56.52%) Qt
2 5 (21.74%) GraphQL
2 5 (21.74%) Node.js
2 5 (21.74%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (56.52%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.04%) Virtual Team
3 2 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Software Testing
2 13 (56.52%) Knowledge Transfer
2 13 (56.52%) Manual Testing
2 13 (56.52%) Regression Testing
2 13 (56.52%) Validation
2 13 (56.52%) Verification and Validation
3 5 (21.74%) Clean Code
3 5 (21.74%) Event-Driven
3 5 (21.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (21.74%) Functional Programming
3 5 (21.74%) Kanban
3 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
3 5 (21.74%) Microservices
3 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (21.74%) Secure Coding
3 5 (21.74%) Technology Strategy
3 5 (21.74%) Unit Testing
4 3 (13.04%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (13.04%) QMS
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) Python
2 13 (56.52%) C
2 13 (56.52%) C++
3 5 (21.74%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.70%) Bash
4 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) QA