Test Automation Jobs in the South East

Automated Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 94 44
Rank change year-on-year +15 -50 -17
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 318 503 796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.31% 2.68% 6.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 3.28% 6.41%
Number of salaries quoted 179 287 416
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,875 £44,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £69,500 £72,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,813 15,321 12,418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.63% 81.76% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,364 10,429 7,529
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £30,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the South East

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the South East

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the South East over the 6 months to 15 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the South East

Test 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 Test Automation within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
Hampshire +32 113 £60,000 +9.09% 79
Thames Valley +11 85 £55,000 - 194
Isle of Wight - 59 £60,000 - 2
Buckinghamshire +21 39 £60,000 +26.32% 21
Oxfordshire +46 35 £55,000 - 16
Middlesex - 24 - -
Berkshire -21 11 £70,500 +12.80% 159
Kent +34 10 £37,500 -42.31% 8
East Sussex +10 10 £47,500 -32.14% 23
West Sussex +19 8 £60,000 -7.69% 14
Surrey -42 7 £57,500 +21.05% 25
Sussex +21 1 £75,000 +33.93% 12
Test Automation
England

Test 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 11 (3.46%) Confluence
2 5 (1.57%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.57%) JBoss
2 5 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.26%) Appian
3 4 (1.26%) CMS
3 4 (1.26%) IIS
4 3 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.94%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.63%) Apache
6 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.31%) Strapi
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.31%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 95 (29.87%) Azure
2 48 (15.09%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (12.58%) AWS
4 21 (6.60%) PaaS
5 15 (4.72%) Serverless
6 11 (3.46%) GitHub
7 10 (3.14%) SaaS
8 9 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (2.83%) GCP
9 8 (2.52%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.20%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (1.89%) Azure Functions
11 6 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (1.57%) Azure App Service
12 5 (1.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (0.94%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (10.69%) TCP/IP
1 34 (10.69%) VPN
2 3 (0.94%) Broadband
3 2 (0.63%) DNS
4 1 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.31%) DVB
4 1 (0.31%) Network Security
4 1 (0.31%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.12%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.77%) DynamoDB
3 7 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.57%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.26%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.26%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.26%) Power BI
6 3 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.94%) Big Data
6 3 (0.94%) Couchbase
6 3 (0.94%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.94%) MySQL
7 2 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.31%) Airbyte
8 1 (0.31%) Redis
Development Applications
1 50 (15.72%) Cucumber
2 41 (12.89%) Git
3 39 (12.26%) Robot Framework
4 25 (7.86%) JIRA
5 23 (7.23%) Selenium
6 17 (5.35%) Jenkins
7 14 (4.40%) MagicDraw
8 12 (3.77%) SonarQube
9 11 (3.46%) Bitbucket
9 11 (3.46%) Maven
10 9 (2.83%) GitLab
11 8 (2.52%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (2.20%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.57%) Appium
13 5 (1.57%) JUnit
13 5 (1.57%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (1.57%) Postman
13 5 (1.57%) SpecFlow
13 5 (1.57%) Subversion
14 4 (1.26%) SoapUI
General
1 97 (30.50%) Social Skills
2 78 (24.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 40 (12.58%) Finance
4 34 (10.69%) Telecoms
5 21 (6.60%) Aerospace
6 18 (5.66%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.14%) Banking
8 8 (2.52%) Advertising
8 8 (2.52%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.57%) Electronics
10 4 (1.26%) Aviation
10 4 (1.26%) Legal
11 3 (0.94%) Back Office
11 3 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.31%) Front Office
13 1 (0.31%) Law
13 1 (0.31%) Retail
Job Titles
1 96 (30.19%) Senior
2 87 (27.36%) Test Engineer
3 61 (19.18%) Lead
4 47 (14.78%) Software Test Engineer
5 46 (14.47%) Senior Test Engineer
6 45 (14.15%) Senior Software Test Engineer
7 43 (13.52%) Developer
8 39 (12.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 36 (11.32%) Test Automation Engineer
10 33 (10.38%) Software Team Leader
10 33 (10.38%) Team Leader
11 29 (9.12%) Senior Developer
12 24 (7.55%) Software Engineer
13 22 (6.92%) Software Developer
14 21 (6.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 21 (6.60%) Azure Engineer
15 20 (6.29%) Senior Software Developer
16 16 (5.03%) Analyst
16 16 (5.03%) Security Engineer
17 14 (4.40%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (10.69%) .NET
2 27 (8.49%) React
3 22 (6.92%) CSS
3 22 (6.92%) HTML
4 18 (5.66%) YAML
5 17 (5.35%) .NET Core
5 17 (5.35%) Kafka
5 17 (5.35%) Spring
5 17 (5.35%) Spring Boot
6 16 (5.03%) XML
7 15 (4.72%) ASP.NET
8 14 (4.40%) GraphQL
8 14 (4.40%) Node.js
9 13 (4.09%) Qt
10 12 (3.77%) Hibernate
11 11 (3.46%) JPA
11 11 (3.46%) REST
12 10 (3.14%) Redux
13 8 (2.52%) .NET Framework
13 8 (2.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.69%) e-Learning
1 34 (10.69%) Hybrid Cloud
1 34 (10.69%) Linux Command Line
2 16 (5.03%) Security Posture
3 13 (4.09%) Embedded Systems
3 13 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (4.09%) Product Ownership
4 6 (1.89%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.57%) Low-Code
5 5 (1.57%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.26%) CPLD
6 4 (1.26%) FPGA
6 4 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.26%) Virtual Team
7 3 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (0.94%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.63%) Biopharmaceutical
8 2 (0.63%) Clustering
8 2 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 43 (13.52%) Windows
2 41 (12.89%) Linux
3 5 (1.57%) Android
3 5 (1.57%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.63%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (58.49%) Agile
2 125 (39.31%) DevOps
2 125 (39.31%) Software Testing
3 101 (31.76%) Mentoring
4 97 (30.50%) Computer Science
5 91 (28.62%) Coaching
6 83 (26.10%) Problem-Solving
7 72 (22.64%) CI/CD
8 71 (22.33%) Containerisation
9 62 (19.50%) Validation
10 58 (18.24%) Verification and Validation
11 55 (17.30%) Configuration Management
11 55 (17.30%) UML
12 48 (15.09%) Software Engineering
13 46 (14.47%) Waterfall
14 43 (13.52%) Artificial Intelligence
14 43 (13.52%) SDLC
15 41 (12.89%) System Testing
16 36 (11.32%) DevSecOps
17 35 (11.01%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (23.90%) Python
2 75 (23.58%) JavaScript
3 61 (19.18%) C#
3 61 (19.18%) Java
4 58 (18.24%) PowerShell
5 35 (11.01%) Bash
6 34 (10.69%) C++
7 31 (9.75%) Rust
8 30 (9.43%) SQL
9 23 (7.23%) TypeScript
10 21 (6.60%) C
11 12 (3.77%) Ada
12 7 (2.20%) PHP
13 5 (1.57%) Bicep
14 3 (0.94%) Embedded C
14 3 (0.94%) Embedded C++
14 3 (0.94%) Go
14 3 (0.94%) Groovy
15 1 (0.31%) Scala
15 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 128 (40.25%) Degree
2 57 (17.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 39 (12.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (5.97%) Master's Degree
5 17 (5.35%) Security Cleared
6 12 (3.77%) Chartered Engineer
6 12 (3.77%) ISTQB
7 11 (3.46%) SC Cleared
8 9 (2.83%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.89%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (1.26%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (22.01%) QA
2 35 (11.01%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 16 (5.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.03%) NCSC
3 16 (5.03%) NIST
4 5 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.63%) GxP
System Software
1 17 (5.35%) Docker
2 4 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.31%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 21 (6.60%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.14%) Terraform
3 7 (2.20%) Ansible
4 3 (0.94%) Grafana
4 3 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.63%) SCCM
5 2 (0.63%) SCOM
6 1 (0.31%) Packer
Vendors
1 44 (13.84%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.01%) IBM
2 35 (11.01%) Red Hat
3 8 (2.52%) Oracle
3 8 (2.52%) Solace
4 6 (1.89%) VMware
5 4 (1.26%) Agilent
5 4 (1.26%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.94%) BiZZdesign
6 3 (0.94%) Black Duck
6 3 (0.94%) UiPath
7 1 (0.31%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.31%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.31%) Coverity
7 1 (0.31%) Databricks
7 1 (0.31%) Google
7 1 (0.31%) McAfee
7 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.31%) Splunk
7 1 (0.31%) Spotify