Test Automation Engineer Jobs in Portsmouth

Automation Test Engineer
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The median Automation Test Engineer salary in Portsmouth is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - 63
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 0.28% - 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% - 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -34.78%
75th Percentile £62,500 - £38,750
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median annual salary £60,000 £37,500 £41,160
% change year-on-year +60.00% -8.89% -5.92%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Portsmouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Portsmouth. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Portsmouth with a recognized job title 346 473 407
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.74% 93.66% 92.08%
Number of salaries quoted 172 406 302
10th Percentile £33,000 £24,500 £28,525
25th Percentile £47,683 £35,188 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
Hampshire median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% -3.85% -0.95%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

Job postings that featured Test Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Engineer in Portsmouth

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in Portsmouth

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

Salary trend for Test Automation Engineer in Portsmouth

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, Test Automation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Portsmouth region featuring Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Postman

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA