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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 80 71
Rank change year-on-year -14 -9 -23
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 28 16 62
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.13% 1.38% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.55% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 15 9 38
10th Percentile £26,250 £41,250 £46,079
25th Percentile £36,000 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +15.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 - £68,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 1,869 1,032 1,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 75.76% 89.12% 86.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,392 689 817
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,750 £85,000
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

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -7 11 £75,000 - 9
Staines -16 5 £50,000 -25.93% 1
Guildford -28 2 £76,250 +32.61% 8
Godalming - 2 £38,500 -
Leatherhead - 1 - - 2
Redhill - 1 - - 5
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) AWS
3 5 (17.86%) GCP
3 5 (17.86%) SaaS
4 4 (14.29%) GitHub
5 3 (10.71%) Anthropic Claude
5 3 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.71%) ChatGPT
5 3 (10.71%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (10.71%) Google Gemini
6 2 (7.14%) Azure AKS
6 2 (7.14%) Azure API Management
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (7.14%) Datadog
6 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) Broadband
2 1 (3.57%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.71%) MySQL
2 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.14%) Delta Lake
3 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Redis
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Git
2 4 (14.29%) Selenium
3 3 (10.71%) Cucumber
3 3 (10.71%) SpecFlow
4 2 (7.14%) JIRA
4 2 (7.14%) MSI
5 1 (3.57%) GitLab
5 1 (3.57%) HP UFT
5 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.57%) JUnit
5 1 (3.57%) TestNG
5 1 (3.57%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
3 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Games
5 2 (7.14%) Electronics
5 2 (7.14%) Finance
5 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Senior
2 5 (17.86%) Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Automation Test Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Test Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Backend Developer
4 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Graduate
4 3 (10.71%) Graduate Test Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Junior
4 3 (10.71%) Junior Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Junior Automation Test Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Junior Test Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Lead
4 3 (10.71%) QA Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Test Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) Terraform
2 4 (14.29%) Gherkin
2 4 (14.29%) RESTful
3 3 (10.71%) .NET
3 3 (10.71%) Hibernate
3 3 (10.71%) JPA
3 3 (10.71%) Kafka
3 3 (10.71%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (10.71%) REST
3 3 (10.71%) Spring
3 3 (10.71%) Spring Boot
4 2 (7.14%) ADO
4 2 (7.14%) OpenTofu
4 2 (7.14%) YAML
5 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.57%) CSS
5 1 (3.57%) GStreamer
5 1 (3.57%) HTML
5 1 (3.57%) HTML5
5 1 (3.57%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) AI Agents
2 4 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.71%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (7.14%) Culture of Ownership
4 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 2 (7.14%) Reference Data
4 2 (7.14%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (3.57%) IoT
5 1 (3.57%) Low-Code
5 1 (3.57%) Robotics
5 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (50.00%) Agile
3 13 (46.43%) Code Quality
3 13 (46.43%) Software Engineering
4 10 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 10 (35.71%) DevOps
4 10 (35.71%) Software Testing
5 9 (32.14%) AI
5 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 7 (25.00%) Mathematics
7 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
7 6 (21.43%) Observability
8 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (17.86%) LLM
8 5 (17.86%) Microservices
8 5 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (17.86%) SDLC
8 5 (17.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 5 (17.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) Python
2 11 (39.29%) C#
3 8 (28.57%) Java
3 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
5 3 (10.71%) Bash
6 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.57%) C++
7 1 (3.57%) Go
7 1 (3.57%) Groovy
7 1 (3.57%) Ruby
7 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (39.29%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (10.71%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) Grafana
2 3 (10.71%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.14%) Argo
4 1 (3.57%) Ansible
4 1 (3.57%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Google
2 3 (10.71%) OpenAI