Test Automation Jobs in South London

Automated Testing
London > South London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South London with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 25 19
Rank change year-on-year -23 -6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 44 110 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 5.01% 13.85% 19.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.24% 14.97% 19.85%
Number of salaries quoted 38 22 93
10th Percentile £24,000 £47,500 £40,250
25th Percentile £30,750 £50,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +6.82% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73,438 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £79,000
London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £69,078
% change year-on-year -3.33% +8.57% -1.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

Test 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 South London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 839 735 1,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 95.56% 92.57% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 413 389 692
10th Percentile £27,965 £31,750 £29,075
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £66,919
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,750 £81,200
London median annual salary £70,576 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.90% +7.14% -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in South London

Test Automation
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in South London

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in South London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in South London

Test Automation
Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Croydon +6 28 £57,500 -23.33% 1
Kingston Upon Thames -12 9 £47,500 -8.65%
Merton -11 5 £85,000 -
Bromley -10 2 £31,500 -47.50% 1
Sutton -13 2 £67,500 +8.00%
Test Automation
London

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 8 (18.18%) Apache
2 4 (9.09%) OpenStack
3 3 (6.82%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (29.55%) Azure
2 10 (22.73%) AWS
2 10 (22.73%) Serverless
3 8 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (11.36%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (11.36%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (6.82%) GitHub
5 3 (6.82%) SaaS
6 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.27%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) Wireless
2 1 (2.27%) HTTP
2 1 (2.27%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 4 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (34.09%) Selenium
2 11 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 10 (22.73%) JUnit
3 10 (22.73%) TestNG
4 9 (20.45%) JIRA
4 9 (20.45%) REST Assured
5 8 (18.18%) WebDriver
6 7 (15.91%) Jenkins
7 6 (13.64%) Git
8 4 (9.09%) JMeter
8 4 (9.09%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (6.82%) Bitbucket
9 3 (6.82%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (6.82%) Serenity BDD
9 3 (6.82%) SoapUI
10 2 (4.55%) Postman
11 1 (2.27%) Maven
11 1 (2.27%) Mocha
11 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (38.64%) Public Sector
2 12 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (15.91%) Police
5 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (6.82%) Finance
6 3 (6.82%) Local Government
7 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (36.36%) Developer
2 10 (22.73%) Analyst
2 10 (22.73%) Test Analyst
3 8 (18.18%) Automation Tester
3 8 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 8 (18.18%) Tester
4 6 (13.64%) Systems Analyst
4 6 (13.64%) Systems Test Analyst
5 5 (11.36%) .NET Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Java Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) DevOps Developer
7 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Automation Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Principal Software Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (36.36%) REST
2 9 (20.45%) Web Services
2 9 (20.45%) WireMock
3 8 (18.18%) Apache Commons
3 8 (18.18%) Guava
3 8 (18.18%) Java Concurrency
4 7 (15.91%) Node.js
5 6 (13.64%) .NET
5 6 (13.64%) Spring
5 6 (13.64%) Spring Boot
5 6 (13.64%) XML
6 5 (11.36%) CSS
7 4 (9.09%) AngularJS
7 4 (9.09%) Apache Camel
7 4 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (9.09%) HTML
7 4 (9.09%) JSON
7 4 (9.09%) SOAP
8 3 (6.82%) RESTful
9 2 (4.55%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Wiki
2 3 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (54.55%) Agile
2 21 (47.73%) Scrum
3 18 (40.91%) Software Testing
4 15 (34.09%) DevOps
5 13 (29.55%) Microservices
6 12 (27.27%) BDD
6 12 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 12 (27.27%) End-to-End Testing
6 12 (27.27%) Scenario Testing
7 11 (25.00%) Coaching
7 11 (25.00%) Code Quality
7 11 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 10 (22.73%) Containerisation
8 10 (22.73%) Kanban
8 10 (22.73%) Performance Testing
9 9 (20.45%) API Testing
10 8 (18.18%) Design Patterns
10 8 (18.18%) Full Stack Development
11 7 (15.91%) Compatibility Testing
11 7 (15.91%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 28 (63.64%) Java
2 16 (36.36%) C#
3 15 (34.09%) SQL
4 13 (29.55%) JavaScript
5 11 (25.00%) Python
6 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 3 (6.82%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.55%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.27%) VB.NET
9 1 (2.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 12 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.91%) Degree
3 4 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 4 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.55%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) Def Stans
1 2 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 14 (31.82%) Docker
2 3 (6.82%) Firmware
3 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (34.09%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.64%) Ansible
3 4 (9.09%) Terraform
4 1 (2.27%) Consul
4 1 (2.27%) HP SiteScope
4 1 (2.27%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 9 (20.45%) YouTube
2 6 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.09%) WSO2
4 3 (6.82%) Google
5 2 (4.55%) Progress
6 1 (2.27%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.27%) Citrix
6 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle