Test Automation Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Automated Testing
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 56 47
Rank change year-on-year 0 -9 -7
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 3 21 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 0.41% 2.68% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 3.09% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 21
10th Percentile £43,250 £50,850 £46,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £83,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,750 £88,500 -
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year - -1.79% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 531 679 676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 71.95% 86.61% 88.14%
Number of salaries quoted 373 333 556
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £40,404
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,509 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.52% +7.64% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,313
90th Percentile £83,000 £81,000 £78,125
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Oxfordshire

Test Automation
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Oxford +5 1 £67,500 +22.73% 22
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SpaceWire
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) NUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer in Test
1 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Validation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Verification Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Validation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (33.33%) Hedge funds
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Build Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
3 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 1 (33.33%) SDET
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ECSS
1 1 (33.33%) QA