QA Automation Jobs in the South East

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 390 456
Rank change year-on-year +15 +66 -107
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 12 19 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.072% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.085% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 12 18 27
10th Percentile £38,000 £48,375 £55,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -17.86% +40.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £69,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £64,375 £72,875 -
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

QA Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,109 13,810 18,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.57% 94.55% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9,848 8,011 11,960
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in the South East

QA Automation
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Automation in the South East.

Salary trend for QA Automation in the South East

QA Automation
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation in the South East over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation in the South East

QA Automation
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley +5 6 £50,000 -13.04% 2
Surrey +12 4 £45,000 -30.77%
Buckinghamshire -21 4 £51,250 -6.82% 2
Hampshire -19 2 £51,000 -21.54%
Oxfordshire +4 1 £35,000 -39.13%
Berkshire - 1 £40,000 - 1
QA Automation
England

QA Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Selenium
2 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (50.00%) Postman
3 4 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 4 (33.33%) JIRA
4 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (25.00%) Git
5 2 (16.67%) JMeter
5 2 (16.67%) JUnit
5 2 (16.67%) Mockito
5 2 (16.67%) NUnit
5 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio
6 1 (8.33%) Appium
6 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
6 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (16.67%) Health Technology
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) QA Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) QA Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Test Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
1 3 (25.00%) Playwright
1 3 (25.00%) Swagger
2 2 (16.67%) Spring
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (16.67%) Web Services
2 2 (16.67%) WireMock
3 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (8.33%) COM
3 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (58.33%) API Testing
3 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (41.67%) Test Scripting
5 4 (33.33%) Agile
5 4 (33.33%) DevOps
6 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (25.00%) Manual Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Microservices
6 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Analytics
7 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
7 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (16.67%) SDET
7 2 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
7 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
8 1 (8.33%) Fintech
8 1 (8.33%) Micro Frontends
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) C#
3 3 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft