Automation Test Lead Jobs in the UK excluding London

Test Automation Leader
UK > UK excluding London

The median Test Automation Leader salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 727 742 815
Rank change year-on-year +15 +73 -186
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Test Lead 15 22 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.022% 0.035% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.039% 0.065%
Number of salaries quoted 15 21 38
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £55,500
25th Percentile £49,375 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +23.81%
75th Percentile £75,625 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £74,750
UK median annual salary £61,250 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.26% +3.85% +1.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 65,737 55,972 67,654
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.35% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 46,859 31,643 43,312
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,738 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Automation Test Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Automation Test Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Test Lead in the UK excluding London

Automation Test Lead
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Automation Test Lead in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Automation Test Lead in the UK excluding London

Automation Test Lead
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Test Lead in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Automation Test Lead in the UK excluding London

Automation Test Lead
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Test Lead within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Wales - 6 £52,500 -
South West -5 4 £85,000 +25.93%
Midlands +11 3 £60,000 -7.69%
East Midlands - 3 £60,000 -
North of England +48 2 £60,000 -10.45%
North West +9 2 £60,000 -17.24%
Automation Test Lead
UK

Automation Test Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Automation Test Lead job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Automation Test Lead in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (86.67%) Selenium
3 12 (80.00%) JavaScript
4 10 (66.67%) QA
5 9 (60.00%) Git
6 8 (53.33%) Test Strategy
6 8 (53.33%) SQL
7 7 (46.67%) C#
8 6 (40.00%) Agile
8 6 (40.00%) Software Testing
8 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
8 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
8 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
9 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
9 5 (33.33%) Performance Testing
9 5 (33.33%) Cypress.io
9 5 (33.33%) Azure
9 5 (33.33%) AWS
10 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (26.67%) Manual Testing
10 4 (26.67%) Degree
10 4 (26.67%) JIRA
10 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
10 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
10 4 (26.67%) Regression Testing
10 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
10 4 (26.67%) DevOps
10 4 (26.67%) Continuous Deployment
10 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (26.67%) Deployment Automation

Automation Test Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) BrowserStack
2 3 (20.00%) Sauce Labs
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 13 (86.67%) Selenium
2 9 (60.00%) Git
3 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 5 (33.33%) Cypress.io
5 4 (26.67%) JIRA
6 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
6 3 (20.00%) JMeter
6 3 (20.00%) Postman
6 3 (20.00%) SpecFlow
7 2 (13.33%) JUnit
7 2 (13.33%) TestNG
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) REST
2 3 (20.00%) Swagger
3 2 (13.33%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (53.33%) Test Strategy
3 6 (40.00%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 5 (33.33%) Performance Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Backtesting
5 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Deployment
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (26.67%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (26.67%) DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Manual Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Regression Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
5 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
6 3 (20.00%) API Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (53.33%) SQL
3 7 (46.67%) C#
4 3 (20.00%) Java
5 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (66.67%) QA