Test Automation Jobs in Surrey

Automated Testing
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 46 45
Rank change year-on-year -29 -1 -28
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 16 127 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 1.59% 5.02% 5.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 5.55% 5.87%
Number of salaries quoted 13 45 109
10th Percentile - £40,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £56,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £63,250 £52,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £60,000 £81,250
South East median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +5.45% -7.56% +3.48%

All Process and 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 912 2,288 2,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 90.39% 90.40% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 529 1,434 1,383
10th Percentile £31,250 £24,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £91,000
South East median annual salary £55,678 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.36% -9.09% -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Surrey

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Surrey

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Surrey

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Surrey over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

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 4 May 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
Guildford +14 4 £48,750 +7.14% 5
Woking +16 2 - - 2
Tadworth +8 1 £52,500 -
Reigate +2 1 £61,500 +23.00% 4
Staines - 1 - -
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) DNS
1 4 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (31.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
3 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Appium
2 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) JMeter
2 2 (12.50%) Robot Framework
2 2 (12.50%) Selenium
2 2 (12.50%) SpecFlow
3 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
General
1 3 (18.75%) Legal
2 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Software Tester
1 4 (25.00%) Tester
2 3 (18.75%) Lead
2 3 (18.75%) Test Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Automation Tester
3 2 (12.50%) QA Automation Tester
3 2 (12.50%) QA Tester
3 2 (12.50%) Software QA Tester
3 2 (12.50%) Software Test Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) QA Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Web Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (12.50%) Blazor
2 2 (12.50%) gRPC
2 2 (12.50%) Playwright
2 2 (12.50%) WPF
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Biopharmaceutical
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 8 (50.00%) DevOps
3 7 (43.75%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (37.50%) Software Testing
5 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
6 4 (25.00%) Agile
6 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (25.00%) Mathematics
6 4 (25.00%) Migration
6 4 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (25.00%) Observability
6 4 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
7 3 (18.75%) Culture Change
7 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (18.75%) Data Strategy
7 3 (18.75%) DataOps
7 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) C#
3 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (12.50%) Java
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (12.50%) ISTQB
3 2 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks