Test Automation Jobs in Stevenage

Automated Testing
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 38 29
Rank change year-on-year +21 -9 +3
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 8 12 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stevenage 7.77% 2.49% 3.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.67% 3.42% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 9
10th Percentile - £43,750 -
25th Percentile £57,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.74% +4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £74,625 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,750 - £60,250
Hertfordshire median annual salary £62,250 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.26% - +20.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Stevenage

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 Stevenage.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 75 351 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stevenage 72.82% 72.82% 90.87%
Number of salaries quoted 68 287 151
10th Percentile £27,950 £36,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £41,280 £47,500 £42,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £70,000
Hertfordshire median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Stevenage

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Stevenage

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Stevenage

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Stevenage

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Stevenage over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Stevenage

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Stevenage 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 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (25.00%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) MinIO
1 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) CppUnit
1 4 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) Robot Framework
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) Snyk
2 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Software Verification Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Verification Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Applications Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) Code Coverage
3 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Embedded Software Development
3 4 (50.00%) Test Planning
3 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Validation
3 4 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
4 2 (25.00%) API Management
4 2 (25.00%) ArchiMate
4 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) Business Process Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Presales
4 2 (25.00%) Robotic Process Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Rancher
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) BiZZdesign
1 2 (25.00%) Black Duck
1 2 (25.00%) UiPath
1 2 (25.00%) VMware