Test Automation Specialist Job Trends in the South East

Automation Test Specialist
England > South East

The median Automation Test Specialist salary in the South East is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Specialist 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.023% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63,250 - -
25th Percentile £64,375 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - -
75th Percentile £69,375 - -
90th Percentile £69,750 - -
England median annual salary £67,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 7,999 10,766 7,405
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.07% 96.01% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,934 5,976 5,297
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,220 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

Test Automation Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Test Automation Specialist' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Test Automation Specialist job vacancy trend in the South East

Test Automation Specialist
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Test Automation Specialist job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Test Automation Specialist job vacancies in the South East

Test Automation Specialist
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 Test Automation Specialist within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 November 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
West Sussex - 2 £67,500 -
Test Automation Specialist
England

Test Automation Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 9 November 2025, Test Automation Specialist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Test Automation Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Appium
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Postman

Test Automation Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Appium
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (50.00%) TestNG
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Advertising
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) International Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA