Test Automation Jobs in the Thames Valley

Automated Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 114 37
Rank change year-on-year +20 -77 -7
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 88 150 406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.60% 2.24% 6.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 2.64% 7.16%
Number of salaries quoted 26 93 130
10th Percentile £47,750 £40,050 £43,162
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £73,500 £75,000 £90,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,181 5,682 5,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.97% 84.81% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,233 3,901 3,099
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £56,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.00% -9.09% -

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 14 May 2025.

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 14 May 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
Oxfordshire +39 40 £55,000 -6.78% 20
Buckinghamshire +31 39 £60,000 +26.32% 20
Berkshire -35 9 £62,750 +0.40% 46
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 7 (7.95%) Confluence
2 1 (1.14%) CMS
2 1 (1.14%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.14%) Strapi
Cloud Services
1 24 (27.27%) AWS
2 10 (11.36%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (11.36%) Serverless
3 9 (10.23%) Azure
4 7 (7.95%) GCP
5 5 (5.68%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.41%) GitHub
7 2 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.27%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.14%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.14%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.14%) Route 53
8 1 (1.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (38.64%) TCP/IP
1 34 (38.64%) VPN
2 2 (2.27%) Broadband
3 1 (1.14%) DVB
3 1 (1.14%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.14%) Internet
3 1 (1.14%) Modbus
3 1 (1.14%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 7 (7.95%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.14%) GIS
Development Applications
1 41 (46.59%) Cucumber
2 34 (38.64%) Robot Framework
3 24 (27.27%) Git
4 12 (13.64%) JIRA
5 8 (9.09%) GitLab
5 8 (9.09%) SonarQube
6 7 (7.95%) Maven
7 6 (6.82%) Bitbucket
7 6 (6.82%) Selenium
7 6 (6.82%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (4.55%) Subversion
9 3 (3.41%) Jenkins
10 1 (1.14%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (1.14%) DbUnit
10 1 (1.14%) jMock
10 1 (1.14%) JUnit
10 1 (1.14%) Mockito
General
1 48 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 41 (46.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 35 (39.77%) Telecoms
4 18 (20.45%) Aerospace
5 8 (9.09%) Finance
6 6 (6.82%) Banking
6 6 (6.82%) Electronics
6 6 (6.82%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.55%) Aviation
8 3 (3.41%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.27%) Legal
10 1 (1.14%) Games
10 1 (1.14%) Marketing
10 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (40.91%) Test Engineer
2 34 (38.64%) Test Automation Engineer
3 16 (18.18%) Senior
4 12 (13.64%) Developer
5 11 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 9 (10.23%) Senior Software Developer
6 9 (10.23%) Software Developer
7 7 (7.95%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Electronics Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Senior Electronics Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Lead
10 2 (2.27%) Analyst
10 2 (2.27%) Design Engineer
10 2 (2.27%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 2 (2.27%) Test Analyst
10 2 (2.27%) Test Manager
11 1 (1.14%) Software Architect
11 1 (1.14%) Technical Architect
11 1 (1.14%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.32%) React
2 13 (14.77%) Qt
3 11 (12.50%) Node.js
4 10 (11.36%) GraphQL
5 7 (7.95%) Hibernate
5 7 (7.95%) JPA
5 7 (7.95%) Spring
5 7 (7.95%) Spring Boot
6 6 (6.82%) CSS
6 6 (6.82%) HTML
6 6 (6.82%) Kafka
6 6 (6.82%) Redux
7 3 (3.41%) REST
8 2 (2.27%) .NET
8 2 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.27%) Vue
9 1 (1.14%) ActiveMQ
9 1 (1.14%) JSON
9 1 (1.14%) SOAP
9 1 (1.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (39.77%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (14.77%) Embedded Systems
3 8 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.55%) CPLD
5 4 (4.55%) FPGA
6 3 (3.41%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.41%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.27%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.27%) Learning Management System
8 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.14%) Clustering
8 1 (1.14%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.14%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.14%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.14%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 39 (44.32%) Linux
2 35 (39.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (54.55%) DevOps
2 46 (52.27%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (47.73%) Mentoring
4 36 (40.91%) Coaching
5 35 (39.77%) Test Management
6 34 (38.64%) System Testing
7 19 (21.59%) Validation
8 18 (20.45%) Agile
8 18 (20.45%) Microservices
9 17 (19.32%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (19.32%) Software Testing
9 17 (19.32%) Verification and Validation
10 16 (18.18%) CI/CD
10 16 (18.18%) Clean Code
11 15 (17.05%) Regression Testing
12 13 (14.77%) Knowledge Transfer
12 13 (14.77%) Manual Testing
12 13 (14.77%) SDLC
12 13 (14.77%) Software Engineering
13 11 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 57 (64.77%) Python
2 41 (46.59%) JavaScript
3 36 (40.91%) PowerShell
4 35 (39.77%) Bash
5 18 (20.45%) C
5 18 (20.45%) C++
6 13 (14.77%) TypeScript
7 9 (10.23%) C#
7 9 (10.23%) Java
8 7 (7.95%) SQL
9 1 (1.14%) Groovy
9 1 (1.14%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.14%) Perl
9 1 (1.14%) Rust
9 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (46.59%) Degree
2 4 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.41%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.14%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (47.73%) QA
2 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (10.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.68%) Terraform
3 2 (2.27%) Ansible
4 1 (1.14%) Grafana
4 1 (1.14%) Packer
4 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (6.82%) Solace
2 4 (4.55%) Agilent
3 2 (2.27%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.14%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.14%) IBM
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.14%) SAP