Test Automation Jobs in Somerset

Automated Testing
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 62 34
Rank change year-on-year +23 -28 +29
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 6 3 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 1.66% 0.33% 5.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 0.54% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 26
10th Percentile £54,818 - £32,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £42,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £45,000 £45,093
Median % change year-on-year +72.22% -0.21% +2.39%
75th Percentile £78,750 £47,500 £58,578
90th Percentile £80,625 - £66,250
South West median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £56,349
% change year-on-year +6.19% +0.27% +7.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 309 560 500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 85.60% 61.27% 91.24%
Number of salaries quoted 192 427 347
10th Percentile £26,550 £26,650 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,813 £35,000 £36,399
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £64,063 £57,250 £61,875
90th Percentile £74,875 £66,250 £72,500
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £54,590
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.83% +9.18%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Somerset

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Somerset

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Somerset

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Somerset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Somerset over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Somerset

Test Automation
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
Street - 4 £77,500 - 6
Taunton - 1 £57,500 - 2
Portishead - 1 £54,282 -
Test Automation
South West

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Functions
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Service Bus
1 4 (66.67%) Figma
1 4 (66.67%) GitHub
1 4 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
1 4 (66.67%) Power Automate
1 4 (66.67%) SaaS
1 4 (66.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JIRA
1 5 (83.33%) Selenium
2 4 (66.67%) Git
2 4 (66.67%) Postman
2 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (66.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Police
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) .NET Framework
1 4 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET Web API
1 4 (66.67%) Bootstrap
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) JSON
1 4 (66.67%) NgRx
1 4 (66.67%) RxJS
1 4 (66.67%) Tailwind CSS
1 4 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) SDLC
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (66.67%) Customer Requirements
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Logistics
2 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 4 (66.67%) Release Management
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Supply Chain Management
2 4 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 4 (66.67%) Web Development
3 1 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (16.67%) Line Management
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (16.67%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft