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 £59,800 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 742 749
Rank change year-on-year +179 +7 +50
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Test Lead 7 17 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.018% 0.024% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.025% 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 3 17 12
10th Percentile £53,440 £46,250 £60,250
25th Percentile £54,850 £52,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,800 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £73,075 £85,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,480 £87,500 £83,375
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 35,007 68,127 52,446
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 94.86% 89.18%
Number of salaries quoted 17,566 48,111 29,896
10th Percentile £26,875 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,438
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -6.43% +6.88%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

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 23 May 2025.

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 23 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
South West +103 4 - -
North of England +43 3 £59,800 -0.33% 1
North West 0 2 £68,750 +14.58% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £59,800 -
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 23 May 2025, 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 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 5 (71.43%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Software Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (57.14%) System Testing
3 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) TDD
3 4 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (57.14%) Linux
3 4 (57.14%) BDD
3 4 (57.14%) Machine Learning
3 4 (57.14%) Docker
3 4 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
4 3 (42.86%) Selenium
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
5 2 (28.57%) Postman
6 1 (14.29%) Playwright
6 1 (14.29%) SoapUI
6 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
6 1 (14.29%) Functional Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Analytics
6 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
6 1 (14.29%) Mobile App

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) BrowserStack
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) Postman
3 1 (14.29%) Appium
3 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) JMeter
3 1 (14.29%) JUnit
3 1 (14.29%) SoapUI
3 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
3 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Cordova
1 1 (14.29%) Ionic Framework
1 1 (14.29%) Playwright
1 1 (14.29%) pytest
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Software Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (57.14%) BDD
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (57.14%) Machine Learning
3 4 (57.14%) System Testing
3 4 (57.14%) TDD
4 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
6 1 (14.29%) CRM
6 1 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (14.29%) Kanban
6 1 (14.29%) OWASP
6 1 (14.29%) Release Management
6 1 (14.29%) Scrum
6 1 (14.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) CyberSource