Test Automation Jobs in Surrey

Automated Testing
South East > Surrey

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Surrey with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 44 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 -27 +18
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 126 134 449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 5.00% 5.46% 12.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.53% 5.77% 13.54%
Number of salaries quoted 44 108 239
10th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £56,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -4.17% +11.63%
75th Percentile £51,563 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £61,250 £81,250 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £59,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.95% +3.91% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Surrey with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,279 2,322 3,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 90.36% 94.70% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,434 1,403 2,007
10th Percentile £24,500 £33,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,250 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

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 30 April 2024.

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 30 April 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
Leatherhead - 74 £47,500 - 2
Guildford -7 18 £45,500 -20.87% 5
Sunbury-on-Thames -1 10 - -
Reigate +6 7 £50,000 -35.48% 7
Woking -7 5 £50,000 -13.04% 5
Esher - 4 £95,000 -
Redhill +19 3 £45,000 -21.74%
Banstead - 2 £44,500 -
Tadworth -3 1 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.17%) TWiki
Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.79%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 41 (32.54%) Azure
2 27 (21.43%) SaaS
3 5 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.17%) AWS
4 4 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (3.17%) GCP
4 4 (3.17%) Serverless
5 1 (0.79%) NuGet
5 1 (0.79%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.97%) Firewall
1 5 (3.97%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.17%) Network Security
3 1 (0.79%) 4G
3 1 (0.79%) 5G
3 1 (0.79%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.79%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.79%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (0.79%) Modbus
3 1 (0.79%) MQTT
3 1 (0.79%) RS-232
3 1 (0.79%) RS-485
3 1 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (19.84%) Jenkins
2 24 (19.05%) Ant
3 11 (8.73%) Postman
4 10 (7.94%) Selenium
5 7 (5.56%) JMeter
6 6 (4.76%) JIRA
6 6 (4.76%) Newman
6 6 (4.76%) REST Assured
7 4 (3.17%) eggPlant
7 4 (3.17%) Git
8 2 (1.59%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.59%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.79%) JUnit
9 1 (0.79%) Mockito
9 1 (0.79%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.79%) Protractor
9 1 (0.79%) Subversion
9 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 36 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.25%) Aerospace
3 10 (7.94%) Legal
4 9 (7.14%) Finance
5 7 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.97%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.38%) Electronics
7 3 (2.38%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.38%) Marketing
7 3 (2.38%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.38%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.79%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 31 (24.60%) Software Engineer
2 26 (20.63%) Developer
3 24 (19.05%) C++ Developer
4 21 (16.67%) C++ Software Engineer
5 12 (9.52%) Development Manager
5 12 (9.52%) Senior
6 9 (7.14%) Software Manager
6 9 (7.14%) Test Engineer
7 7 (5.56%) Engineering Manager
7 7 (5.56%) Software Engineering Manager
7 7 (5.56%) Software Tester
7 7 (5.56%) Tester
8 6 (4.76%) Analyst
8 6 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) IT Support Analyst
9 5 (3.97%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (3.97%) Senior IT Support
9 5 (3.97%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Senior Support Analyst
9 5 (3.97%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (26.98%) .NET
2 24 (19.05%) Hibernate
3 9 (7.14%) Swagger
4 5 (3.97%) Middleware
4 5 (3.97%) React
5 4 (3.17%) ADO
5 4 (3.17%) Vue
6 2 (1.59%) Playwright
7 1 (0.79%) Node.js
7 1 (0.79%) Puppeteer
7 1 (0.79%) Spring
7 1 (0.79%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.79%) Web Services
7 1 (0.79%) WireMock
7 1 (0.79%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.67%) Satnav
2 11 (8.73%) Management Information System
3 10 (7.94%) Algorithms
3 10 (7.94%) Data Structures
4 9 (7.14%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.17%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.38%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.38%) PMI
7 2 (1.59%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.79%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.79%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.79%) IoT
8 1 (0.79%) NB-IoT
8 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 34 (26.98%) Linux
2 28 (22.22%) Windows
3 4 (3.17%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.17%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (63.49%) Problem-Solving
2 68 (53.97%) Actionable Insight
3 49 (38.89%) Software Engineering
4 42 (33.33%) Agile
5 34 (26.98%) DevOps
6 29 (23.02%) Code Quality
7 24 (19.05%) Computer Science
7 24 (19.05%) Multithreading
8 23 (18.25%) Collaborative Working
8 23 (18.25%) System Testing
9 21 (16.67%) Quality Management
10 20 (15.87%) Software Testing
11 19 (15.08%) Change Management
11 19 (15.08%) Project Management
11 19 (15.08%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (11.90%) Mentoring
13 14 (11.11%) Mathematics
14 13 (10.32%) Scrum
15 12 (9.52%) Data Cleansing
15 12 (9.52%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 62 (49.21%) SQL
2 47 (37.30%) C++
3 36 (28.57%) C#
4 34 (26.98%) Java
5 25 (19.84%) C
6 21 (16.67%) PowerShell
7 10 (7.94%) Python
8 5 (3.97%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.97%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.17%) Bash
9 4 (3.17%) Bicep
10 1 (0.79%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 71 (56.35%) SC Cleared
1 71 (56.35%) Security Cleared
2 30 (23.81%) Degree
3 18 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.76%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.76%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (2.38%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.79%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (30.16%) QA
2 21 (16.67%) Software Quality Assurance
3 2 (1.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.59%) Docker
4 1 (0.79%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (15.08%) Ansible
2 2 (1.59%) Terraform
3 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.97%) Palo Alto
3 4 (3.17%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.38%) SAP
5 1 (0.79%) Atmel
5 1 (0.79%) Freescale