QA Automation Jobs in the South East

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring QA Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA Automation over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 384 379
Rank change year-on-year +75 -5 +76
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 3 12 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.031% 0.071% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.084% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 19
10th Percentile - £38,000 £48,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -17.39% -17.86%
75th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £58,750 £64,375 £72,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

QA 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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,818 14,215 13,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.86% 84.35% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,316 9,870 7,861
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,188 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,790 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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
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 17 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
Surrey +45 2 £47,500 +5.56%
East Sussex - 1 £57,500 -
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Appium
2 2 (66.67%) SpecFlow
3 1 (33.33%) Postman
3 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Tester
1 2 (66.67%) QA Automation Tester
1 2 (66.67%) QA Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Software QA Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Software Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (66.67%) Blazor
1 2 (66.67%) gRPC
1 2 (66.67%) WPF
2 1 (33.33%) pytest
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Issue Tracking
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA