Test Automation Job Trends in Surrey

Automated Testing
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 51 44
Rank change year-on-year -35 -7 +10
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 15 49 73
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.85% 4.29% 4.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 4.60% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 14 30 32
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £37,875
25th Percentile £40,313 £46,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +42.86% -20.87%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,438 £51,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £66,125
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,417 1,066 1,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 80.74% 93.43% 88.38%
Number of salaries quoted 838 477 937
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,000 £26,950
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +16.00% -9.09%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Surrey

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Surrey over the 6 months to 6 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Surrey

Test Automation
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 6 February 2026. 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
Reigate +1 4 £85,000 +38.21% 2
Redhill - 4 £45,000 - 1
Epsom +14 1 £42,500 -34.62%
Staines 0 1 £46,500 -
Leatherhead - 1 - -
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (6.67%) GitHub
1 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Selenium
2 4 (26.67%) SpecFlow
3 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) JUnit
3 1 (6.67%) Robot Framework
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Games
3 1 (6.67%) Electronics
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Analyst
2 5 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Automation Test Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Pensions Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Python Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) QA Automation Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) QA Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Test Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Test Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) QA Test Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior QA Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) .NET
2 4 (26.67%) Gherkin
3 1 (6.67%) Jest
3 1 (6.67%) JSON
3 1 (6.67%) OpenAPI
3 1 (6.67%) Playwright
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) SOAP
3 1 (6.67%) Swagger
3 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (26.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 5 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 4 (26.67%) BDD
3 4 (26.67%) Fintech
3 4 (26.67%) Mathematics
3 4 (26.67%) Project Planning
3 4 (26.67%) SDET
3 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) QA Automation
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 1 (6.67%) API Management
6 1 (6.67%) Creative Thinking
6 1 (6.67%) Decision-Making
6 1 (6.67%) DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) Front End Development
6 1 (6.67%) Integration Testing
6 1 (6.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 1 (6.67%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (6.67%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 5 (33.33%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (26.67%) ISEB
2 4 (26.67%) ISTQB
2 4 (26.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Databricks
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle