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 £42,500 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 752 728 827
Rank change year-on-year -24 +99 -153
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Automation Tester 3 23 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.004% 0.037% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.042% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 3 22 3
10th Percentile - £36,875 £48,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,125 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - +29.41%
75th Percentile £50,625 £65,000 £56,875
90th Percentile £54,750 - £58,000
UK median annual salary £48,750 £58,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.02% +6.82% +25.71%

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%

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
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram 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 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
North of England +44 3 £42,500 -5.56% 1
North West +6 2 £42,500 -5.56% 1
North East - 1 £55,000 -
QA Automation Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) SpecFlow
2 2 (66.67%) Gherkin
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 2 (66.67%) JMeter
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
3 1 (33.33%) Postman
3 1 (33.33%) Playwright
3 1 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (33.33%) Java

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) JMeter
2 2 (66.67%) SpecFlow
2 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
2 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Postman
3 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Gherkin
2 1 (33.33%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Scala
3 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility