Test Automation Jobs in the Thames Valley

Automated Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 35 31
Rank change year-on-year -66 -4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 155 416 542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.31% 6.80% 7.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 7.18% 8.37%
Number of salaries quoted 96 133 325
10th Percentile £40,500 £43,430 £38,450
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £89,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £59,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.95% +3.91% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,700 5,796 6,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.11% 94.69% 92.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,989 3,145 3,933
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £39,750 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the Thames Valley

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Test Automation in the Thames Valley

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the Thames Valley

Test Automation
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Berkshire -52 82 £62,500 -3.85% 19
Buckinghamshire -7 43 £47,500 -1.55% 14
Oxfordshire -54 30 £59,000 +2.61% 8
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 15 (9.68%) SharePoint
2 12 (7.74%) Apache
3 10 (6.45%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (6.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (9.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (30.32%) Azure
2 27 (17.42%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (14.84%) AWS
3 23 (14.84%) Dynamics 365
4 17 (10.97%) Power Automate
5 12 (7.74%) GitHub
6 8 (5.16%) SaaS
7 7 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (4.52%) IaaS
7 7 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (4.52%) Serverless
8 6 (3.87%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.23%) PaaS
10 3 (1.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (1.29%) GCP
12 1 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.65%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.65%) Google Container Engine
Communications & Networking
1 23 (14.84%) Wi-Fi
2 22 (14.19%) 5G
2 22 (14.19%) Bluetooth
2 22 (14.19%) GSM
2 22 (14.19%) ISDN
2 22 (14.19%) LTE
2 22 (14.19%) PSTN
2 22 (14.19%) UMTS
2 22 (14.19%) Wireless
3 3 (1.94%) Internet
4 2 (1.29%) Broadband
5 1 (0.65%) DHCP
5 1 (0.65%) DNS
5 1 (0.65%) MQTT
5 1 (0.65%) RS-485
5 1 (0.65%) VLAN
5 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.68%) Relational Database
2 8 (5.16%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.87%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.65%) Big Data
5 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (23.87%) Selenium
2 22 (14.19%) LabVIEW
2 22 (14.19%) WebDriver
3 21 (13.55%) Cucumber
3 21 (13.55%) Git
4 16 (10.32%) Jenkins
5 13 (8.39%) JUnit
6 12 (7.74%) REST Assured
6 12 (7.74%) TestNG
7 11 (7.10%) NUnit
7 11 (7.10%) Visual Studio
8 9 (5.81%) TestRail
9 8 (5.16%) JIRA
10 7 (4.52%) JMeter
11 6 (3.87%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (3.87%) Serenity BDD
12 5 (3.23%) Bitbucket
12 5 (3.23%) Postman
12 5 (3.23%) SoapUI
13 3 (1.94%) Cypress.io
General
1 23 (14.84%) Law
1 23 (14.84%) Telecoms
2 22 (14.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (11.61%) Social Skills
4 16 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.16%) Retail
7 7 (4.52%) Back Office
7 7 (4.52%) Police
8 4 (2.58%) Marketing
9 3 (1.94%) Finance
9 3 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.29%) Electronics
11 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.65%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.65%) Legal
11 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 38 (24.52%) Developer
2 17 (10.97%) Consultant
2 17 (10.97%) Tester
3 16 (10.32%) Analyst
4 15 (9.68%) Automation Tester
4 15 (9.68%) Hardware Engineer
4 15 (9.68%) QA Engineer
5 14 (9.03%) CRM Consultant
5 14 (9.03%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 14 (9.03%) Test Engineer
6 13 (8.39%) Test Analyst
7 12 (7.74%) Mobile Developer
8 10 (6.45%) Software Developer
9 9 (5.81%) Microsoft Consultant
10 8 (5.16%) Hardware Test Engineer
10 8 (5.16%) Software Engineer
11 7 (4.52%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
11 7 (4.52%) Microsoft CRM Consultant
11 7 (4.52%) Systems Developer
12 6 (3.87%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (19.35%) .NET
2 20 (12.90%) Web Services
3 19 (12.26%) REST
4 18 (11.61%) .NET Core
4 18 (11.61%) JSON
5 15 (9.68%) XML
6 12 (7.74%) React Native
6 12 (7.74%) WireMock
7 11 (7.10%) Apache Commons
7 11 (7.10%) Guava
7 11 (7.10%) Java Concurrency
8 10 (6.45%) AngularJS
9 9 (5.81%) CSS
10 7 (4.52%) Node.js
10 7 (4.52%) Spring
10 7 (4.52%) Spring Boot
11 6 (3.87%) RESTful
12 5 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (3.23%) React
12 5 (3.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.19%) Acoustics
1 22 (14.19%) Satnav
2 7 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (4.52%) Life Science
3 4 (2.58%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.94%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (1.94%) IoT
4 3 (1.94%) Robotics
5 2 (1.29%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.29%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.65%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.65%) Hackathon
6 1 (0.65%) Molecular Biology
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.32%) Linux
2 3 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.94%) Windows
3 2 (1.29%) CentOS
3 2 (1.29%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.65%) Debian
4 1 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.65%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (62.58%) Agile
2 55 (35.48%) DevOps
3 40 (25.81%) Continuous Integration
4 37 (23.87%) CI/CD
5 29 (18.71%) Scrum
5 29 (18.71%) SDET
5 29 (18.71%) Test Scripting
6 28 (18.06%) Coaching
6 28 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (17.42%) Software Testing
8 26 (16.77%) CRM
9 25 (16.13%) Containerisation
10 22 (14.19%) Critical Thinking
10 22 (14.19%) Data Management
10 22 (14.19%) Microservices
11 20 (12.90%) BDD
11 20 (12.90%) Manual Testing
11 20 (12.90%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 19 (12.26%) API Testing
12 19 (12.26%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (27.10%) C#
2 40 (25.81%) Python
2 40 (25.81%) SQL
3 30 (19.35%) Java
4 17 (10.97%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.87%) Bash
5 6 (3.87%) Ruby
6 3 (1.94%) C
6 3 (1.94%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.29%) Go
7 2 (1.29%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.29%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.29%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.29%) VBScript
8 1 (0.65%) C++
8 1 (0.65%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.65%) Groovy
8 1 (0.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 58 (37.42%) Degree
2 35 (22.58%) Security Cleared
3 20 (12.90%) SC Cleared
4 14 (9.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (7.74%) ISTQB
6 9 (5.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 8 (5.16%) Azure Certification
7 8 (5.16%) DBS Check
7 8 (5.16%) DV Cleared
8 6 (3.87%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.29%) ISEB
9 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.65%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (32.26%) QA
System Software
1 33 (21.29%) Docker
2 6 (3.87%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.29%) Firmware
3 2 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (22.58%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.45%) Ansible
3 7 (4.52%) Terraform
4 1 (0.65%) Kibana
4 1 (0.65%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.65%) Packer
4 1 (0.65%) Puppet
4 1 (0.65%) Rancher
Vendors
1 29 (18.71%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.74%) Xamarin
3 5 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.58%) WSO2
5 3 (1.94%) Conga
5 3 (1.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 3 (1.94%) VMware
6 2 (1.29%) Google
7 1 (0.65%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.65%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.65%) IBM
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle
7 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.65%) YouTube