Test Automation Jobs in the South West

Automated Testing
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 111 50
Rank change year-on-year +58 -61 -13
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 162 231 350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.56% 2.19% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.97% 2.74% 5.74%
Number of salaries quoted 81 128 197
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £82,751 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £85,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,259 8,437 6,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 91.65% 79.87% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,901 5,959 3,497
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £51,500 £53,519
Median % change year-on-year - -3.77% +7.04%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,650
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the South West

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the South West

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the South West over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the South West

Test Automation
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 within the South West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Bristol +64 74 £71,991 +15.19% 49
Devon +7 43 £55,000 -12.00% 24
Gloucestershire +43 19 £52,500 -19.23% 45
Dorset +18 13 £47,500 -9.52% 16
Somerset +23 8 £77,500 +72.22% 17
Wiltshire +35 4 £37,500 -27.54% 8
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.23%) Confluence
2 1 (0.62%) Appian
2 1 (0.62%) Mendix
2 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.47%) SOLIDWORKS
2 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 41 (25.31%) Azure
2 37 (22.84%) AWS
3 20 (12.35%) GCP
4 19 (11.73%) Serverless
5 14 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (8.02%) GitHub
7 11 (6.79%) npm
8 10 (6.17%) Amazon S3
9 9 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (4.94%) SaaS
11 6 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.47%) Azure Functions
13 4 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (2.47%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.47%) Figma
13 4 (2.47%) Power Automate
13 4 (2.47%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.96%) 5G
1 21 (12.96%) SD-WAN
1 21 (12.96%) WAN
2 4 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.62%) DHCP
3 1 (0.62%) DNS
3 1 (0.62%) HbbTV
3 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.62%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.64%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.32%) Relational Database
3 6 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.47%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.47%) MySQL
4 4 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.47%) Power BI
5 3 (1.85%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.23%) Big Data
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (1.23%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.62%) CockroachDB
7 1 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (27.78%) Git
2 25 (15.43%) JIRA
3 20 (12.35%) Cypress.io
3 20 (12.35%) Selenium
4 19 (11.73%) Jenkins
5 13 (8.02%) Cucumber
5 13 (8.02%) GitLab
5 13 (8.02%) Sonatype Nexus
5 13 (8.02%) webpack
6 10 (6.17%) Visual Studio
7 9 (5.56%) Postman
8 7 (4.32%) LabVIEW
9 6 (3.70%) Locust
9 6 (3.70%) SpecFlow
10 5 (3.09%) JUnit
11 4 (2.47%) IBM UrbanCode
11 4 (2.47%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (1.85%) Appium
12 3 (1.85%) Zephyr
13 2 (1.23%) SonarQube
General
1 59 (36.42%) Social Skills
2 39 (24.07%) Finance
3 33 (20.37%) Presentation Skills
4 30 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (16.67%) Banking
6 20 (12.35%) Electronics
7 10 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (6.17%) Retail
8 8 (4.94%) Marketing
8 8 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.70%) Military
10 5 (3.09%) Law
11 4 (2.47%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.47%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.23%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.62%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.62%) Police
13 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.62%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (30.25%) Software Engineer
2 38 (23.46%) Lead
3 27 (16.67%) Senior
4 24 (14.81%) Test Engineer
5 19 (11.73%) Developer
6 16 (9.88%) Technical Engineer
7 15 (9.26%) Support Engineer
7 15 (9.26%) Technical Support
7 15 (9.26%) Technical Support Engineer
8 13 (8.02%) Java Engineer
8 13 (8.02%) Test Automation Engineer
9 12 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (6.17%) Software Developer
11 9 (5.56%) Technical Leader
12 8 (4.94%) Lead Java Engineer
12 8 (4.94%) Project Leader
12 8 (4.94%) Senior Project Leader
12 8 (4.94%) Software Project Leader
12 8 (4.94%) Technical Project Leader
13 7 (4.32%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.96%) Spring Boot
2 19 (11.73%) RESTful
3 17 (10.49%) .NET
4 15 (9.26%) .NET Framework
5 14 (8.64%) Playwright
6 13 (8.02%) Jest
6 13 (8.02%) Node.js
6 13 (8.02%) REST
6 13 (8.02%) Web Services
7 12 (7.41%) .NET Core
7 12 (7.41%) AngularJS
7 12 (7.41%) CSS
7 12 (7.41%) HTML
7 12 (7.41%) React
8 10 (6.17%) JSON
9 8 (4.94%) Kafka
9 8 (4.94%) pytest
10 7 (4.32%) ASP.NET
10 7 (4.32%) Entity Framework
11 6 (3.70%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.96%) Self-Driving Car
2 15 (9.26%) Satnav
3 13 (8.02%) Public Cloud
4 12 (7.41%) Data Structures
5 11 (6.79%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (5.56%) Algorithms
6 9 (5.56%) Product Ownership
7 7 (4.32%) Cloud Native
8 6 (3.70%) Distributed Applications
8 6 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (3.70%) Mobile App
8 6 (3.70%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.47%) Analogue Electronics
9 4 (2.47%) Client/Server
9 4 (2.47%) GNSS
9 4 (2.47%) Replication
10 3 (1.85%) Reinsurance
11 2 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.23%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 30 (18.52%) Linux
2 19 (11.73%) Windows
3 17 (10.49%) Apple iOS
4 5 (3.09%) Unix
5 4 (2.47%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (47.53%) Agile
2 70 (43.21%) Software Engineering
3 63 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 59 (36.42%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (22.22%) B2B
6 35 (21.60%) DevOps
7 34 (20.99%) Computer Science
7 34 (20.99%) Mentoring
7 34 (20.99%) Microservices
8 28 (17.28%) Continuous Integration
8 28 (17.28%) Software Testing
9 25 (15.43%) Validation
10 22 (13.58%) Full-Stack Development
10 22 (13.58%) Scrum
11 21 (12.96%) Requirements Analysis
12 20 (12.35%) Event-Driven
13 18 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (10.49%) Containerisation
14 17 (10.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 17 (10.49%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (30.25%) Java
1 49 (30.25%) Python
2 37 (22.84%) JavaScript
3 27 (16.67%) SQL
4 22 (13.58%) C#
4 22 (13.58%) TypeScript
5 21 (12.96%) C++
6 9 (5.56%) C
6 9 (5.56%) MATLAB
7 7 (4.32%) Rust
8 6 (3.70%) Bash
9 4 (2.47%) Dart
9 4 (2.47%) Embedded C
9 4 (2.47%) Go
10 1 (0.62%) PHP
10 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.62%) Ruby
10 1 (0.62%) Swift
Qualifications
1 44 (27.16%) Degree
2 18 (11.11%) HND
3 15 (9.26%) HNC
4 9 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.56%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.32%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.23%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.23%) ISEB
8 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.20%) QA
2 12 (7.41%) PMO
3 3 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (22.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.62%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (11.73%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.79%) Terraform
3 2 (1.23%) Ansible
3 2 (1.23%) Istio
4 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (9.26%) Salesforce
2 9 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.32%) Databricks
4 4 (2.47%) F5
4 4 (2.47%) Intel
5 2 (1.23%) Fiserv
5 2 (1.23%) Oracle
5 2 (1.23%) TSYS
5 2 (1.23%) VMware
6 1 (0.62%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.62%) Google
6 1 (0.62%) IBM
6 1 (0.62%) Pega