QA Automation Tester Jobs in the UK excluding London

Automation QA Tester
UK > UK excluding London

The median Automation QA Tester salary in the UK excluding London is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 571 768 740
Rank change year-on-year +197 -28 +124
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Automation Tester 2 3 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.004% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.004% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 20
10th Percentile - - £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile £48,750 £50,625 £65,000
90th Percentile - £54,750 £67,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £48,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -22.00% +13.64%

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 34,854 66,889 54,723
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 94.81% 89.26%
Number of salaries quoted 18,748 47,339 31,114
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

QA Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Tester in the UK excluding London

QA Automation Tester
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for QA Automation Tester in the UK excluding London

QA 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 QA Automation Tester within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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 East - 2 £47,500 -
QA Automation Tester
UK

QA Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, QA 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 QA Automation Tester in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Appium
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Issue Tracking
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 2 (100.00%) gRPC
1 2 (100.00%) Blazor
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality

QA 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Appium
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (100.00%) Blazor
1 2 (100.00%) gRPC
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Issue Tracking
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA