Test Automation Jobs in Oxfordshire

Automated Testing
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 82 27
Rank change year-on-year +51 -55 -8
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 40 30 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 5.49% 1.77% 8.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.86% 2.22% 8.88%
Number of salaries quoted 13 28 24
10th Percentile £45,650 - £40,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £37,500 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% -32.35%
75th Percentile £57,500 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile - £68,825 £105,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,750
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.95% +3.91%

All Process and 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 683 1,352 1,430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 93.82% 79.86% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 320 1,074 762
10th Percentile £30,980 £28,500 £26,800
25th Percentile £39,929 £36,250 £36,965
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,625 £73,375 £79,875
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Oxfordshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Oxfordshire

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

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 21 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
Oxford +44 23 £55,000 -2.65% 8
Bicester +10 2 - -
Kidlington +4 2 - -
Chinnor - 2 - -
Banbury +15 1 - -
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) CMS
2 1 (2.50%) Headless CMS
2 1 (2.50%) Strapi
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) AWS
2 9 (22.50%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (22.50%) Serverless
3 4 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (7.50%) Azure
4 3 (7.50%) GCP
5 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (22.50%) TCP/IP
1 9 (22.50%) VPN
2 2 (5.00%) Broadband
3 1 (2.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.50%) GIS
Development Applications
1 16 (40.00%) Git
2 11 (27.50%) Cucumber
3 9 (22.50%) Robot Framework
4 4 (10.00%) GitLab
5 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (5.00%) JIRA
5 2 (5.00%) Maven
5 2 (5.00%) Selenium
5 2 (5.00%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (32.50%) Aerospace
1 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (22.50%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.00%) Banking
4 2 (5.00%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Legal
5 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Senior
2 10 (25.00%) Developer
2 10 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 9 (22.50%) Senior Software Developer
3 9 (22.50%) Software Developer
3 9 (22.50%) Test Automation Engineer
3 9 (22.50%) Test Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Software Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Architect
5 1 (2.50%) Associate Director
5 1 (2.50%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Senior Architect
5 1 (2.50%) Senior Associate Director
5 1 (2.50%) Senior Software Architect
5 1 (2.50%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (2.50%) Senior Web Developer
5 1 (2.50%) Software Architect
5 1 (2.50%) Technical Architect
5 1 (2.50%) Technical Director
5 1 (2.50%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (32.50%) Qt
2 12 (30.00%) React
3 10 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 10 (25.00%) Node.js
4 2 (5.00%) CSS
4 2 (5.00%) Hibernate
4 2 (5.00%) HTML
4 2 (5.00%) JPA
4 2 (5.00%) Kafka
4 2 (5.00%) Redux
4 2 (5.00%) REST
4 2 (5.00%) Spring
4 2 (5.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.00%) Vue
5 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.50%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (32.50%) Embedded Systems
2 9 (22.50%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.50%) Virtual Team
4 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.00%) Learning Management System
4 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Linux
2 9 (22.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) Software Testing
2 15 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 14 (35.00%) Validation
4 13 (32.50%) DevOps
4 13 (32.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 13 (32.50%) Manual Testing
4 13 (32.50%) Regression Testing
4 13 (32.50%) Verification and Validation
5 12 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 12 (30.00%) Microservices
5 12 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (27.50%) Clean Code
7 9 (22.50%) Coaching
7 9 (22.50%) Event-Driven
7 9 (22.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 9 (22.50%) Functional Programming
7 9 (22.50%) Kanban
7 9 (22.50%) Secure Coding
7 9 (22.50%) System Testing
7 9 (22.50%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 28 (70.00%) Python
2 13 (32.50%) C
2 13 (32.50%) C++
3 11 (27.50%) JavaScript
3 11 (27.50%) TypeScript
4 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 9 (22.50%) Bash
6 3 (7.50%) SQL
7 2 (5.00%) Java
8 1 (2.50%) C#
8 1 (2.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (32.50%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (27.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Ansible
2 1 (2.50%) Grafana
2 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (5.00%) Solace