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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 71 52
Rank change year-on-year -6 -19 -26
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 16 61 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 1.37% 3.27% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 3.76% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 9 38 41
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,079 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -20.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile - £68,750 -
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 1,039 1,623 1,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 89.26% 86.88% 91.95%
Number of salaries quoted 693 826 681
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £31,248
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £84,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 6 £67,500 -
Reigate +9 3 - - 1
Epsom -4 3 £42,500 -34.62%
Woking +22 2 - - 1
Guildford +1 1 £57,500 +15.00% 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
1 10 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) GitHub
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (18.75%) SaaS
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
1 2 (12.50%) JMeter
1 2 (12.50%) Robot Framework
2 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.25%) Postman
2 1 (6.25%) Selenium
2 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
1 6 (37.50%) Legal
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Local Government
3 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Automation Test Lead
1 6 (37.50%) Lead
1 6 (37.50%) Test Leader
2 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Software Test Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Test Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) Playwright
3 1 (6.25%) pytest
3 1 (6.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Biopharmaceutical
2 2 (12.50%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Agile
1 12 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (68.75%) Software Testing
3 10 (62.50%) DevOps
4 9 (56.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (56.25%) Service Delivery
5 6 (37.50%) Business Analysis
5 6 (37.50%) End-to-End Testing
5 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 6 (37.50%) Regression Testing
5 6 (37.50%) Test Strategy
5 6 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (31.25%) Test Scripting
7 4 (25.00%) API Management
7 4 (25.00%) Scrum
7 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 4 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
8 3 (18.75%) Problem Management
8 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) C#
2 8 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) Go
4 1 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 2 (12.50%) ISTQB
1 2 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (75.00%) QA
2 3 (18.75%) SLA
3 2 (12.50%) GxP
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Databricks
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Informatica