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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 56 29
Rank change year-on-year -56 -27 +9
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 347 570 1,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.30% 4.92% 8.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 5.18% 8.88%
Number of salaries quoted 225 331 1,082
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,680 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

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 12,301 10,994 21,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 81.50% 94.87% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,138 7,007 11,964
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,620 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +8.01%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +4.35%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
Hampshire -14 143 £55,000 -8.33% 19
Thames Valley -45 108 £55,000 -6.78% 21
Surrey -21 65 £50,000 -13.04% 3
Berkshire -49 58 £62,500 - 9
Buckinghamshire +17 30 £47,500 +6.74% 6
Oxfordshire -34 20 £55,000 -4.35% 6
Kent -17 13 £65,000 -7.14% 2
East Sussex -16 9 £60,000 +6.19% 3
West Sussex -29 9 £67,500 +28.57% 3
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 14 (4.03%) Apache
2 7 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.73%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.15%) TWiki
5 3 (0.86%) Confluence
6 2 (0.58%) JBoss
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.29%) CMS
7 1 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.86%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.58%) OrCAD
4 2 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.29%) Doxygen
5 1 (0.29%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 4 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.15%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 104 (29.97%) Azure
2 64 (18.44%) SaaS
3 56 (16.14%) AWS
4 54 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (4.90%) IaaS
6 16 (4.61%) GitHub
7 15 (4.32%) PaaS
8 12 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (3.46%) Serverless
9 10 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.31%) Azure Functions
10 8 (2.31%) Pulumi
11 7 (2.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.44%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.86%) AWS CodePipeline
13 3 (0.86%) Azure App Service
13 3 (0.86%) GCP
14 2 (0.58%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.03%) Network Security
2 10 (2.88%) 5G
2 10 (2.88%) Bluetooth
2 10 (2.88%) Wireless
3 9 (2.59%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (2.31%) GSM
4 8 (2.31%) HTTP
4 8 (2.31%) ISDN
4 8 (2.31%) LTE
4 8 (2.31%) PSTN
4 8 (2.31%) UMTS
5 3 (0.86%) MQTT
5 3 (0.86%) RS-485
6 2 (0.58%) 4G
6 2 (0.58%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.58%) LoRaWAN
6 2 (0.58%) Modbus
6 2 (0.58%) RS-232
6 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.58%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (13.54%) NoSQL
2 43 (12.39%) SQL Server
3 20 (5.76%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.02%) DynamoDB
4 7 (2.02%) MySQL
4 7 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (0.86%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.58%) Big Data
7 2 (0.58%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.29%) DB2
8 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.29%) GIS
8 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 105 (30.26%) Selenium
2 46 (13.26%) Git
3 27 (7.78%) Visual Studio
4 25 (7.20%) JIRA
5 22 (6.34%) NUnit
5 22 (6.34%) WebDriver
6 19 (5.48%) Cucumber
6 19 (5.48%) Postman
6 19 (5.48%) REST Assured
7 17 (4.90%) Jenkins
7 17 (4.90%) JUnit
8 16 (4.61%) Cypress.io
9 15 (4.32%) Jasmine
9 15 (4.32%) TestRail
10 14 (4.03%) Visual Studio Code
11 13 (3.75%) JMeter
11 13 (3.75%) TestNG
12 9 (2.59%) Ant
12 9 (2.59%) Team Foundation Server
12 9 (2.59%) TeamCity
General
1 64 (18.44%) Social Skills
2 34 (9.80%) Aerospace
3 26 (7.49%) Finance
4 18 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (4.90%) Law
5 17 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.46%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.59%) Electronics
8 9 (2.59%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.31%) Retail
10 7 (2.02%) Multimedia
11 6 (1.73%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.44%) Back Office
12 5 (1.44%) Police
13 4 (1.15%) Automotive
13 4 (1.15%) Local Government
13 4 (1.15%) Marketing
14 3 (0.86%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 80 (23.05%) Developer
2 52 (14.99%) Software Engineer
3 47 (13.54%) Senior
4 40 (11.53%) Tester
5 36 (10.37%) Automation Tester
6 33 (9.51%) Analyst
7 32 (9.22%) Test Engineer
8 31 (8.93%) Test Analyst
9 26 (7.49%) Software Developer
10 22 (6.34%) Lead
11 20 (5.76%) Architect
11 20 (5.76%) Azure Developer
12 19 (5.48%) Data Architect
12 19 (5.48%) Full Stack Developer
12 19 (5.48%) Senior Developer
13 16 (4.61%) .NET Developer
14 14 (4.03%) .NET Software Developer
14 14 (4.03%) AWS Developer
14 14 (4.03%) C# Developer
14 14 (4.03%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (22.19%) .NET
2 44 (12.68%) RESTful
3 41 (11.82%) CSS
4 35 (10.09%) .NET Core
5 33 (9.51%) HTML
5 33 (9.51%) Middleware
6 29 (8.36%) React
7 28 (8.07%) ASP.NET
8 24 (6.92%) AngularJS
9 23 (6.63%) Web Services
10 21 (6.05%) .NET Framework
11 19 (5.48%) Vue
12 17 (4.90%) Entity Framework
12 17 (4.90%) REST
13 15 (4.32%) Laravel
14 14 (4.03%) jQuery
14 14 (4.03%) JSON
14 14 (4.03%) WireMock
15 13 (3.75%) OAuth
16 12 (3.46%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.48%) Satnav
2 14 (4.03%) Onboarding
3 12 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.17%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.59%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.31%) Acoustics
6 8 (2.31%) Embedded Systems
6 8 (2.31%) Low-Code
7 7 (2.02%) Life Science
8 6 (1.73%) PKI
9 5 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.44%) IoT
9 5 (1.44%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.15%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.86%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.58%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.58%) NB-IoT
13 1 (0.29%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 61 (17.58%) Linux
2 29 (8.36%) Windows
3 15 (4.32%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.59%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.15%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.86%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.58%) CentOS
8 2 (0.58%) Debian
8 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.29%) Android
9 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (56.48%) Agile
2 104 (29.97%) DevOps
3 100 (28.82%) Software Engineering
4 88 (25.36%) Software Testing
5 71 (20.46%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (19.02%) CI/CD
7 64 (18.44%) Scrum
8 61 (17.58%) Test Scripting
9 56 (16.14%) Design Patterns
10 53 (15.27%) Continuous Integration
11 50 (14.41%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 48 (13.83%) Mentoring
13 46 (13.26%) Actionable Insight
14 45 (12.97%) Full Stack Development
15 39 (11.24%) Project Delivery
16 38 (10.95%) Coaching
16 38 (10.95%) Code Quality
16 38 (10.95%) Test Assurance
17 37 (10.66%) Kanban
17 37 (10.66%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 107 (30.84%) SQL
2 92 (26.51%) C#
3 80 (23.05%) Python
4 78 (22.48%) Java
5 60 (17.29%) JavaScript
6 32 (9.22%) Kotlin
7 29 (8.36%) C++
8 17 (4.90%) TypeScript
9 15 (4.32%) C
9 15 (4.32%) PHP
10 9 (2.59%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.59%) T-SQL
11 8 (2.31%) Bicep
12 7 (2.02%) Bash
12 7 (2.02%) Ruby
13 4 (1.15%) Go
14 2 (0.58%) Assembly Language
15 1 (0.29%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.29%) VB
15 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 107 (30.84%) Security Cleared
2 77 (22.19%) Degree
3 71 (20.46%) SC Cleared
4 36 (10.37%) DV Cleared
5 34 (9.80%) ISTQB
6 27 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.61%) Master's Degree
8 13 (3.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 9 (2.59%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.15%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.15%) ISEB
11 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.29%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.29%) CCNA
12 1 (0.29%) CCNP
12 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (31.41%) QA
2 11 (3.17%) Software Quality Assurance
3 10 (2.88%) GDPR
3 10 (2.88%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.44%) SLA
5 2 (0.58%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 42 (12.10%) Docker
2 6 (1.73%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.73%) Firmware
2 6 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 42 (12.10%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.48%) Terraform
3 12 (3.46%) Ansible
4 7 (2.02%) MIIS
5 5 (1.44%) WMI
6 3 (0.86%) Kibana
7 2 (0.58%) Grafana
7 2 (0.58%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.29%) Nessus
8 1 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (13.26%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.02%) Xamarin
3 6 (1.73%) VMware
4 3 (0.86%) Oracle
4 3 (0.86%) Red Hat
4 3 (0.86%) SAP
5 2 (0.58%) Atmel
5 2 (0.58%) EMC
5 2 (0.58%) Freescale
5 2 (0.58%) Splunk
6 1 (0.29%) ANSYS
6 1 (0.29%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.29%) Black Duck
6 1 (0.29%) Conga
6 1 (0.29%) Databricks
6 1 (0.29%) Google
6 1 (0.29%) IFS
6 1 (0.29%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow