Test Automation Engineer Jobs in the South West

Automation Test Engineer
England > South West

The median Automation Test Engineer salary in the South West is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 287 247
Rank change year-on-year +117 -40 +58
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 13 4 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.35% 0.038% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.040% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 13
10th Percentile £56,500 £52,625 £43,150
25th Percentile £56,875 £54,688 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +23.68% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £62,188 £51,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £63,875 £57,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £42,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +42.86% -23.64% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 3,471 10,031 5,777
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.11% 95.98% 89.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,149 7,260 3,762
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Test Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Engineer in the South West

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Test Automation Engineer in the South West

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation Engineer in the South West

Test Automation Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Gloucestershire - 6 £100,000 - 1
Dorset - 4 - -
Bristol +65 1 £60,000 +14.29% 4
Wiltshire +42 1 - -
Somerset - 1 £57,500 -
Test Automation Engineer
England

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 1 July 2025, Test Automation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 10 (76.92%) Python
3 9 (69.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (61.54%) Machine Learning
4 8 (61.54%) Docker
4 8 (61.54%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (46.15%) DV Cleared
5 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
5 6 (46.15%) Java
5 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
5 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
6 5 (38.46%) Playwright
6 5 (38.46%) API Testing
6 5 (38.46%) pytest
6 5 (38.46%) Linux
6 5 (38.46%) System Testing
6 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
6 5 (38.46%) Software Testing
6 5 (38.46%) Selenium
6 5 (38.46%) Test Scripting
7 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (30.77%) Marketing
7 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
7 4 (30.77%) AWS
7 4 (30.77%) TDD
7 4 (30.77%) Finance
7 4 (30.77%) Law
7 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
7 4 (30.77%) Jenkins

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon Bedrock
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon SageMaker
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (30.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Selenium
2 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 4 (30.77%) Locust
3 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
4 1 (7.69%) Robot Framework
4 1 (7.69%) SoapUI
General
1 9 (69.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Law
2 4 (30.77%) Marketing
3 2 (15.38%) Tech for Good
4 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Playwright
1 5 (38.46%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (61.54%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (61.54%) Machine Learning
3 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (38.46%) API Testing
4 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
4 5 (38.46%) Software Testing
4 5 (38.46%) System Testing
4 5 (38.46%) Test Scripting
5 4 (30.77%) BDD
5 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (30.77%) TDD
6 2 (15.38%) DevOps
7 1 (7.69%) Agile
7 1 (7.69%) Coaching
7 1 (7.69%) Defect Tracking
7 1 (7.69%) Fintech
7 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
7 1 (7.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Java
2 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) PHP
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) DV Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) IBM