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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 53 53
Rank change year-on-year -27 0 -8
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 21 60 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.25% 4.80% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 5.24% 4.15%
Number of salaries quoted 16 37 17
10th Percentile £40,000 £44,908 £41,700
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +4.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile - £87,500 £77,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%

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 1,388 1,144 843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 82.87% 91.52% 91.63%
Number of salaries quoted 800 532 559
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £30,200
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £73,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% -1.82%

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 24 December 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 24 December 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
Staines +3 5 £67,500 -
Reigate +2 4 £85,000 +86.08% 1
Epsom +16 3 £42,500 -34.62%
Redhill - 3 £45,000 -
Guildford -17 1 £57,500 +15.00% 22
Horley - 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 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
1 8 (38.10%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (19.05%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (19.05%) GitHub
2 4 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (14.29%) SaaS
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Selenium
2 4 (19.05%) SpecFlow
3 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.76%) Postman
3 1 (4.76%) Robot Framework
3 1 (4.76%) SoapUI
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Legal
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Local Government
4 1 (4.76%) Electronics
4 1 (4.76%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Automation Test Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Automation Test Lead
2 4 (19.05%) Lead
2 4 (19.05%) Test Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Test Leader
3 3 (14.29%) Pensions Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) QA Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) QA Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (57.14%) .NET
2 4 (19.05%) Gherkin
3 1 (4.76%) Playwright
3 1 (4.76%) pytest
3 1 (4.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 3 (14.29%) Virtual Team
2 2 (9.52%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Software Testing
2 11 (52.38%) Service Delivery
3 9 (42.86%) Agile
4 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
4 8 (38.10%) DevOps
4 8 (38.10%) Test Scripting
5 7 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (19.05%) API Management
6 4 (19.05%) BDD
6 4 (19.05%) Business Analysis
6 4 (19.05%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (19.05%) Mathematics
6 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
6 4 (19.05%) Project Planning
6 4 (19.05%) Regression Testing
6 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
6 4 (19.05%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (19.05%) Sprint Retrospective
6 4 (19.05%) Test Strategy
6 4 (19.05%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) C#
2 11 (52.38%) SQL
3 7 (33.33%) Python
4 1 (4.76%) Go
4 1 (4.76%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
2 4 (19.05%) ISEB
2 4 (19.05%) ISTQB
2 4 (19.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (57.14%) QA
2 3 (14.29%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Databricks
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Informatica