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 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 102 56 42
Rank change year-on-year -46 -14 +5
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 200 314 642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.27% 5.05% 7.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 5.33% 7.33%
Number of salaries quoted 100 205 370
10th Percentile £32,375 £33,750 £37,425
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,715 £73,683
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 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 6,800 5,890 8,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 77.33% 94.65% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,670 3,616 5,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,188 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
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 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 26 July 2024.

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 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
Devon +14 71 £65,000 +36.65% 4
Bristol -40 54 £71,991 +19.99% 26
Dorset -14 31 £30,000 -44.19% 7
Gloucestershire -17 31 £56,500 -1.74% 2
Wiltshire -42 7 £35,500 -47.41% 1
Somerset -14 4 £47,500 +5.56% 7
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 10 (5.00%) Confluence
2 6 (3.00%) SAS
3 3 (1.50%) Apache
4 2 (1.00%) JBoss
4 2 (1.00%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (7.00%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (6.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 37 (18.50%) AWS
2 26 (13.00%) Azure
3 16 (8.00%) OpenShift
4 13 (6.50%) GitHub
5 10 (5.00%) npm
6 7 (3.50%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.50%) OCI
8 4 (2.00%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.00%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.00%) IBM Cloud
8 4 (2.00%) Route 53
9 3 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.50%) GCP
9 3 (1.50%) SaaS
10 2 (1.00%) BrowserStack
10 2 (1.00%) Datadog
10 2 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.00%) Sauce Labs
10 2 (1.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 39 (19.50%) 5G
1 39 (19.50%) SD-WAN
1 39 (19.50%) WAN
2 9 (4.50%) TCP/IP
3 8 (4.00%) DNS
3 8 (4.00%) HTTP
3 8 (4.00%) Internet
3 8 (4.00%) SMTP
4 2 (1.00%) SSL
5 1 (0.50%) AMQP
5 1 (0.50%) Broadband
5 1 (0.50%) Network Security
5 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.50%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.00%) MySQL
2 6 (3.00%) Power BI
2 6 (3.00%) Tableau
3 5 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.50%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.50%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.00%) DB2
5 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.00%) GIS
5 2 (1.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.00%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.50%) Big Data
6 1 (0.50%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (13.50%) Git
2 25 (12.50%) Selenium
3 21 (10.50%) Jenkins
3 21 (10.50%) JIRA
4 13 (6.50%) Cucumber
4 13 (6.50%) LabVIEW
5 11 (5.50%) TeamCity
6 10 (5.00%) Postman
6 10 (5.00%) Storybook
7 8 (4.00%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.50%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.50%) SpecFlow
9 4 (2.00%) JMeter
9 4 (2.00%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.50%) Appium
10 3 (1.50%) Moq
10 3 (1.50%) Subversion
10 3 (1.50%) xUnit.net
11 2 (1.00%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 85 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 59 (29.50%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (21.00%) Finance
4 40 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
5 28 (14.00%) Electronics
6 24 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (9.50%) Law
8 17 (8.50%) Tech for Good
9 13 (6.50%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (5.50%) Banking
10 11 (5.50%) Financial Institution
11 10 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (5.00%) Investment Banking
12 7 (3.50%) Public Sector
13 6 (3.00%) Legal
14 4 (2.00%) Retail
15 2 (1.00%) Games
15 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.50%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 46 (23.00%) Developer
2 39 (19.50%) Senior
3 27 (13.50%) Test Engineer
4 20 (10.00%) Lead
5 17 (8.50%) AWS Engineer
5 17 (8.50%) Software Engineer
6 16 (8.00%) GNSS Engineer
6 16 (8.00%) RF Engineer
7 15 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (7.50%) Software Developer
8 14 (7.00%) Operations Engineer
8 14 (7.00%) Senior Developer
9 13 (6.50%) Automation Engineer
9 13 (6.50%) Cloud Automation Engineer
9 13 (6.50%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (6.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 13 (6.50%) Product Engineer
9 13 (6.50%) Product Test Engineer
9 13 (6.50%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (6.50%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.50%) .NET
2 13 (6.50%) Node.js
2 13 (6.50%) pytest
3 12 (6.00%) AngularJS
3 12 (6.00%) Gherkin
3 12 (6.00%) React
4 11 (5.50%) Sass
5 7 (3.50%) CSS
5 7 (3.50%) HTML
5 7 (3.50%) RESTful
6 5 (2.50%) .NET Framework
6 5 (2.50%) REST
7 4 (2.00%) ASP.NET
7 4 (2.00%) Laravel
7 4 (2.00%) Spring
8 3 (1.50%) CSS3
8 3 (1.50%) HTML5
8 3 (1.50%) LAMP
8 3 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (1.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (16.50%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (12.00%) GNSS
3 19 (9.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (8.00%) Management Information System
5 15 (7.50%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (6.00%) Mobile App
7 11 (5.50%) FPGA
8 8 (4.00%) CUDA
8 8 (4.00%) MicroBlaze
8 8 (4.00%) Onboarding
8 8 (4.00%) Product Ownership
8 8 (4.00%) Robotics
8 8 (4.00%) Tandem
8 8 (4.00%) VHDL
9 6 (3.00%) Algorithms
9 6 (3.00%) Credit Risk
9 6 (3.00%) Market Risk
10 4 (2.00%) Blockchain
10 4 (2.00%) e-Learning
10 4 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 51 (25.50%) Linux
2 39 (19.50%) Windows
3 21 (10.50%) Unix
4 18 (9.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (6.50%) Apple iOS
6 8 (4.00%) Debian
6 8 (4.00%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.00%) Android
8 1 (0.50%) CentOS
8 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (54.50%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (36.00%) Agile
3 63 (31.50%) B2B
4 53 (26.50%) Computer Science
5 51 (25.50%) CI/CD
6 49 (24.50%) Software Engineering
7 43 (21.50%) Mentoring
8 41 (20.50%) Project Delivery
9 39 (19.50%) Test Assurance
10 36 (18.00%) Containerisation
11 35 (17.50%) DevOps
12 33 (16.50%) Scrum
13 32 (16.00%) Software Testing
14 27 (13.50%) End-to-End Testing
15 25 (12.50%) Configuration Management
16 24 (12.00%) Coaching
16 24 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
16 24 (12.00%) Manual Testing
16 24 (12.00%) Time Management
16 24 (12.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 71 (35.50%) Python
2 51 (25.50%) Java
3 30 (15.00%) C++
4 27 (13.50%) JavaScript
5 24 (12.00%) MATLAB
6 23 (11.50%) Perl
7 19 (9.50%) C
8 18 (9.00%) SQL
9 17 (8.50%) C#
10 12 (6.00%) TypeScript
11 9 (4.50%) Bash
12 8 (4.00%) Tcl
12 8 (4.00%) VB
13 6 (3.00%) R
14 5 (2.50%) PHP
15 4 (2.00%) Rust
15 4 (2.00%) Swift
15 4 (2.00%) T-SQL
16 3 (1.50%) VB.NET
17 2 (1.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 95 (47.50%) Degree
2 15 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.00%) HND
4 8 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.50%) ISTQB
6 6 (3.00%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.50%) ISEB
8 3 (1.50%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.50%) MCSA
10 1 (0.50%) MCSD
10 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.00%) QA
2 19 (9.50%) PMO
3 7 (3.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.50%) JTAG
5 1 (0.50%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 36 (18.00%) Docker
2 18 (9.00%) Firmware
3 16 (8.00%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (14.00%) Kubernetes
2 26 (13.00%) Terraform
3 18 (9.00%) Ansible
4 17 (8.50%) Progress Chef
4 17 (8.50%) Puppet
5 15 (7.50%) Salt
6 4 (2.00%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.00%) Nagios
7 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (13.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.00%) Altera
2 8 (4.00%) Green Hills
2 8 (4.00%) Motorola
2 8 (4.00%) UiPath
2 8 (4.00%) Xilinx
3 7 (3.50%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.00%) Alteryx
4 6 (3.00%) Atlassian
4 6 (3.00%) Oracle
4 6 (3.00%) Pega
5 5 (2.50%) Xamarin
6 4 (2.00%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.00%) IBM
7 3 (1.50%) Coverity
8 2 (1.00%) ESRI
8 2 (1.00%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.00%) New Relic
8 2 (1.00%) Splunk
8 2 (1.00%) Sybase