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 18 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 51 27
Rank change year-on-year -12 -24 +4
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 67 53 352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 3.48% 4.52% 10.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 4.90% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 38 41 198
10th Percentile £46,079 £45,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £68,750 - £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%

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 1,683 1,081 3,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 87.34% 92.16% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 835 683 1,938
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,248 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £69,000 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,750 £84,650
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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
Guildford +1 15 £50,000 -13.04% 2
Leatherhead +11 13 £47,500 -24.00%
Epsom - 12 £65,000 -
Woking -14 9 £50,000 -
Reigate -8 5 £45,680 -29.72% 1
Tadworth -9 2 - -
Dorking +2 1 £62,500 +56.25%
Redhill 0 1 - -
Camberley -1 1 £67,500 -3.57%
Staines - 1 £67,500 -
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 4 (5.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.48%) OrCAD
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 24 (35.82%) Azure
2 17 (25.37%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (17.91%) SaaS
4 11 (16.42%) Azure API Management
4 11 (16.42%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (16.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 11 (16.42%) GitHub
4 11 (16.42%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.49%) AWS
5 1 (1.49%) NuGet
5 1 (1.49%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) 4G
1 3 (4.48%) 5G
1 3 (4.48%) Bluetooth
1 3 (4.48%) Ethernet
1 3 (4.48%) LoRaWAN
1 3 (4.48%) Modbus
1 3 (4.48%) MQTT
1 3 (4.48%) RS-232
1 3 (4.48%) RS-485
1 3 (4.48%) TCP/IP
1 3 (4.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (26.87%) SQL Server
2 11 (16.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (11.94%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (16.42%) Selenium
2 7 (10.45%) JMeter
3 6 (8.96%) Postman
4 5 (7.46%) eggPlant
4 5 (7.46%) JIRA
4 5 (7.46%) Newman
4 5 (7.46%) REST Assured
5 4 (5.97%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.99%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.49%) Ant
7 1 (1.49%) Git
7 1 (1.49%) GitLab
7 1 (1.49%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.49%) MSBuild
7 1 (1.49%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.49%) Subversion
7 1 (1.49%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 9 (13.43%) Automotive
1 9 (13.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.96%) Finance
3 5 (7.46%) Aerospace
3 5 (7.46%) Marketing
4 4 (5.97%) Local Government
4 4 (5.97%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (4.48%) Electronics
5 3 (4.48%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.48%) Retail
5 3 (4.48%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (35.82%) Software Engineer
2 14 (20.90%) Senior
3 13 (19.40%) Senior Software Engineer
4 12 (17.91%) Test Engineer
5 8 (11.94%) Tester
6 6 (8.96%) Software Test Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Software Tester
7 4 (5.97%) Scrum Master
8 3 (4.48%) Developer
8 3 (4.48%) QA Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) C# Software Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) C++ Software Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Lead
9 2 (2.99%) Project Manager
9 2 (2.99%) QA Tester
9 2 (2.99%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
9 2 (2.99%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (40.30%) .NET
2 19 (28.36%) Middleware
3 5 (7.46%) Swagger
4 3 (4.48%) Playwright
4 3 (4.48%) Web Services
4 3 (4.48%) Yocto
5 1 (1.49%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.49%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.49%) CSS
5 1 (1.49%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.49%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.40%) Product Ownership
2 9 (13.43%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.46%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.48%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (4.48%) IoT
4 3 (4.48%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.48%) NB-IoT
5 2 (2.99%) Satnav
5 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.49%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.91%) Linux
2 7 (10.45%) Windows
3 5 (7.46%) Windows Server
3 5 (7.46%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (4.48%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (61.19%) Agile
2 28 (41.79%) Software Engineering
3 27 (40.30%) Software Testing
4 22 (32.84%) Scrum
5 18 (26.87%) DevOps
6 16 (23.88%) CI/CD
6 16 (23.88%) Computer Science
6 16 (23.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (20.90%) Use Case
8 13 (19.40%) Code Quality
8 13 (19.40%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (19.40%) Mathematics
9 12 (17.91%) Project Delivery
9 12 (17.91%) Sprint Planning
10 11 (16.42%) API Management
10 11 (16.42%) B2B
10 11 (16.42%) Community of Practice
10 11 (16.42%) Sprint Retrospective
11 10 (14.93%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 38 (56.72%) SQL
2 37 (55.22%) C#
3 22 (32.84%) Python
4 10 (14.93%) Java
5 8 (11.94%) Kotlin
6 6 (8.96%) C++
7 3 (4.48%) Assembly Language
8 2 (2.99%) C
9 1 (1.49%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (55.22%) Degree
2 11 (16.42%) SC Cleared
2 11 (16.42%) Security Cleared
3 9 (13.43%) Azure Certification
4 8 (11.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (7.46%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (47.76%) QA
2 4 (5.97%) SLA
3 2 (2.99%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (5.97%) Docker
2 3 (4.48%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (4.48%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (2.99%) Terraform
2 1 (1.49%) Ansible
2 1 (1.49%) Grafana
2 1 (1.49%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (38.81%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.42%) Databricks
3 3 (4.48%) Atmel
3 3 (4.48%) Freescale
3 3 (4.48%) SAP