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 £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 702 649
Rank change year-on-year +136 -53 -61
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Tester 9 61 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.086% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.091% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 7 29 75
10th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £37,050
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -17.39% +23.66%
75th Percentile £50,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £50,100 £72,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £58,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.89% +2.17% +15.00%

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 35,759 67,300 52,885
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.85% 89.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18,598 47,582 30,032
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
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 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
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 16 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
Midlands +64 2 £42,500 -5.56% 3
South East +59 2 £47,500 -24.00% 2
West Midlands +57 2 £42,500 -5.56% 1
North of England +39 2 £47,500 +2.70% 10
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Yorkshire +64 1 £50,000 +11.11% 5
North West -1 1 £45,000 -5.26% 3
Wales - 1 £48,500 -
Automation Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, 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 9 (100.00%) Selenium
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (77.78%) Software Testing
2 7 (77.78%) QA
2 7 (77.78%) C#
3 5 (55.56%) Integration Testing
4 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
4 4 (44.44%) Java
4 4 (44.44%) .NET
4 4 (44.44%) Azure
4 4 (44.44%) Cucumber
4 4 (44.44%) Appium
5 3 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (33.33%) SpecFlow
5 3 (33.33%) Manual Testing
5 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (33.33%) Python
5 3 (33.33%) Playwright
5 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
6 2 (22.22%) SDLC
6 2 (22.22%) API Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Issue Tracking
6 2 (22.22%) QA Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
6 2 (22.22%) Blazor
6 2 (22.22%) Windows

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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Selenium
2 4 (44.44%) Appium
2 4 (44.44%) Cucumber
3 3 (33.33%) SpecFlow
4 2 (22.22%) WebDriver
5 1 (11.11%) Git
5 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
5 1 (11.11%) JMeter
5 1 (11.11%) Mocha
5 1 (11.11%) NUnit
5 1 (11.11%) Postman
5 1 (11.11%) REST Assured
5 1 (11.11%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (11.11%) TestComplete
5 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) .NET
2 3 (33.33%) Playwright
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (22.22%) Blazor
3 2 (22.22%) gRPC
3 2 (22.22%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
3 1 (11.11%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (77.78%) Software Testing
3 5 (55.56%) Integration Testing
4 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
5 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 3 (33.33%) Manual Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (22.22%) API Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
6 2 (22.22%) DevOps
6 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Exploratory Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Functional Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Issue Tracking
6 2 (22.22%) QA Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (22.22%) SDLC
6 2 (22.22%) System Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Test Planning
6 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) C#
2 4 (44.44%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) UiPath