Test Automation Job Trends in Slough

Automated Testing
Berkshire > Slough

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Slough requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 70 -
Rank change year-on-year +30 - -
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 1 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Slough 0.22% 1.26% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 1.37% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
Berkshire median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year +17.39% -6.12% -2.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Slough

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 Slough.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 291 365 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Slough 64.67% 91.71% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 204 80 56
10th Percentile £28,775 £37,375 £28,375
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.79% +5.36%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Slough

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Slough

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Slough

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Slough citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Slough citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Slough 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Demand Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Propensity Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Time Series Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft