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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 68 53
Rank change year-on-year -26 -15 -34
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 10 95 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 0.80% 3.54% 4.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 4.03% 4.91%
Number of salaries quoted 6 43 74
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,500 £46,775
25th Percentile £50,625 £43,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £60,625 £52,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £62,250 £63,500 £77,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -

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 1,156 2,355 1,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 92.41% 87.84% 93.57%
Number of salaries quoted 630 1,481 1,034
10th Percentile £28,720 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,000 £35,042 £43,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +8.60%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £90,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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
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 7 July 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
Woking +23 2 - - 2
Staines +8 2 £57,500 -14.81% 1
Guildford +10 1 £57,500 +26.37% 5
Tadworth +8 1 £52,500 - 1
Reigate +6 1 £61,500 +34.63% 6
Epsom - 1 - -
Horley - 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 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) GitHub
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) JMeter
2 2 (20.00%) Robot Framework
3 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (10.00%) Postman
3 1 (10.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Legal
1 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
1 3 (30.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Automation Test Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Software Test Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Web Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) Playwright
3 1 (10.00%) pytest
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Biopharmaceutical
1 2 (20.00%) Marketing Technology
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (30.00%) API Management
5 3 (30.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Scrum
5 3 (30.00%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (30.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
5 3 (30.00%) User Stories
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) Scrum-ban
6 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
6 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) C#
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) Python
4 2 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (10.00%) Go
5 1 (10.00%) PHP
5 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Databricks
3 2 (20.00%) Informatica