Automation Tester Jobs in the UK excluding London

Automation Tester
UK > UK excluding London

The median Automation Tester salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 690 655 590
Rank change year-on-year -35 -65 -93
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Tester 65 96 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.093% 0.16% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.098% 0.17% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 33 87 145
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,550 £36,100
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £62,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -

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 66,472 55,237 67,618
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.31% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 47,163 31,304 42,933
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £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 £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in the UK excluding London

Automation Tester
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Automation Tester in the UK excluding London

Automation Tester
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Tester in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Automation Tester in the UK excluding London

Automation Tester
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 Tester within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 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
South East +33 44 £65,000 -7.14% 1
North of England +40 16 £46,250 +2.78% 2
North West +3 8 £47,500 +5.56% 1
Yorkshire +95 5 £45,000 +1.12% 1
North East +1 3 £47,500 -
East of England +23 2 £49,500 -5.71%
West Midlands +12 2 £45,000 -18.18% 1
Midlands -8 2 £45,000 -18.18% 2
South West -29 1 - -
Automation Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Automation Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 65 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 55 (84.62%) Selenium
3 45 (69.23%) Agile
4 36 (55.38%) Security Cleared
5 33 (50.77%) QA
6 27 (41.54%) Test Scripting
7 26 (40.00%) Java
7 26 (40.00%) Cucumber
8 23 (35.38%) Technical Analysis
8 23 (35.38%) Mentoring
8 23 (35.38%) Coaching
8 23 (35.38%) Actionable Insight
8 23 (35.38%) Requirements Analysis
8 23 (35.38%) Test Assurance
9 22 (33.85%) CI/CD
10 21 (32.31%) DV Cleared
11 20 (30.77%) Software Testing
11 20 (30.77%) Scrum
12 19 (29.23%) Aerospace
12 19 (29.23%) Collaborative Working
13 18 (27.69%) JavaScript
14 17 (26.15%) API Testing
15 16 (24.62%) REST Assured
16 15 (23.08%) BDD
16 15 (23.08%) WebDriver
16 15 (23.08%) SC Cleared
17 14 (21.54%) TestNG
18 13 (20.00%) REST
18 13 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
18 13 (20.00%) JUnit

Automation Tester 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (15.38%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.38%) SaaS
2 8 (12.31%) GitHub
3 7 (10.77%) AWS
4 5 (7.69%) Azure
5 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 55 (84.62%) Selenium
2 26 (40.00%) Cucumber
3 16 (24.62%) REST Assured
4 15 (23.08%) WebDriver
5 14 (21.54%) TestNG
6 13 (20.00%) JUnit
7 10 (15.38%) JIRA
8 9 (13.85%) SoapUI
9 8 (12.31%) Jenkins
9 8 (12.31%) JMeter
10 7 (10.77%) Appium
10 7 (10.77%) Bitbucket Server
10 7 (10.77%) Postman
10 7 (10.77%) Serenity BDD
11 6 (9.23%) Bitbucket
11 6 (9.23%) SpecFlow
12 4 (6.15%) Protractor
13 3 (4.62%) Git
14 2 (3.08%) eggPlant
14 2 (3.08%) SOAtest
General
1 19 (29.23%) Aerospace
2 10 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.08%) Banking
5 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.54%) Finance
6 1 (1.54%) Games
6 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.54%) Law
6 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.00%) REST
2 11 (16.92%) WireMock
3 10 (15.38%) Apache Commons
3 10 (15.38%) Guava
3 10 (15.38%) Java Concurrency
4 7 (10.77%) Gherkin
4 7 (10.77%) SOAP
4 7 (10.77%) Web Services
5 6 (9.23%) RESTful
6 5 (7.69%) .NET
7 2 (3.08%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.08%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (3.08%) Playwright
8 1 (1.54%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.15%) Client/Server
1 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 45 (69.23%) Agile
3 27 (41.54%) Test Scripting
4 23 (35.38%) Actionable Insight
4 23 (35.38%) Coaching
4 23 (35.38%) Mentoring
4 23 (35.38%) Requirements Analysis
4 23 (35.38%) Technical Analysis
4 23 (35.38%) Test Assurance
5 22 (33.85%) CI/CD
6 20 (30.77%) Scrum
6 20 (30.77%) Software Testing
7 19 (29.23%) Collaborative Working
8 17 (26.15%) API Testing
9 15 (23.08%) BDD
10 13 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
11 12 (18.46%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (18.46%) SDET
12 11 (16.92%) Code Quality
13 10 (15.38%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.00%) Java
2 18 (27.69%) JavaScript
3 10 (15.38%) C#
3 10 (15.38%) SQL
4 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.54%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.54%) Scala
5 1 (1.54%) VB
5 1 (1.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (55.38%) Security Cleared
2 21 (32.31%) DV Cleared
3 15 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.69%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.08%) ISEB
6 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (50.77%) QA
2 3 (4.62%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (16.92%) Docker
2 2 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (16.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.54%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.54%) HP
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle