QA Automation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 711 645 670
Rank change year-on-year -66 +25 -82
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 45 117 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.064% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% 0.20% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 38 73 82
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £43,688 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £57,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +3.60% +11.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £65,750 £70,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

QA Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,303 58,729 66,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 95.63% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41,097 30,137 41,486
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in the UK excluding London

QA Automation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for QA Automation in the UK excluding London

QA Automation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation in the UK excluding London

QA Automation
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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 +5 16 £51,250 -10.87% 2
Scotland - 12 £52,500 -
South West -15 8 £60,000 -7.69% 1
North of England +21 7 £55,000 +22.22% 4
North West 0 6 £52,500 +16.67% 2
Wales +10 1 £82,500 +32.00%
East of England -19 1 £38,000 -
North East - 1 £55,000 -
QA Automation
UK

QA Automation
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 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (44.44%) Azure
2 12 (26.67%) AWS
3 5 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (11.11%) SaaS
4 3 (6.67%) BrowserStack
5 2 (4.44%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (2.22%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) DynamoDB
1 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.22%) DocumentDB
3 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.22%) MySQL
3 1 (2.22%) Redis
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (48.89%) Cypress.io
2 18 (40.00%) Selenium
3 12 (26.67%) Postman
4 9 (20.00%) Jenkins
5 8 (17.78%) Cucumber
6 6 (13.33%) JIRA
7 5 (11.11%) JMeter
7 5 (11.11%) REST Assured
8 4 (8.89%) Git
8 4 (8.89%) SpecFlow
9 3 (6.67%) Appium
9 3 (6.67%) JUnit
9 3 (6.67%) Mockito
10 2 (4.44%) NUnit
10 2 (4.44%) Serenity BDD
10 2 (4.44%) SoapUI
10 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio
10 2 (4.44%) WebDriver
11 1 (2.22%) GitLab
11 1 (2.22%) Subversion
General
1 7 (15.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Electronics
2 4 (8.89%) Finance
2 4 (8.89%) Games
3 3 (6.67%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.22%) Marketing
4 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.22%) Tech for Good
4 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (48.89%) QA Engineer
2 15 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 15 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
3 14 (31.11%) Lead
4 12 (26.67%) QA Leader
5 4 (8.89%) Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Automation Test Lead
6 2 (4.44%) Automation Tester
6 2 (4.44%) Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Full Stack .NET Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (4.44%) QA Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Test Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Test Leader
6 2 (4.44%) Tester
7 1 (2.22%) Head of Test
7 1 (2.22%) QA Automation Tester
7 1 (2.22%) Senior
7 1 (2.22%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (44.44%) Playwright
2 9 (20.00%) .NET
3 4 (8.89%) Spring
4 3 (6.67%) REST
4 3 (6.67%) Spring Boot
4 3 (6.67%) Swagger
4 3 (6.67%) Web Services
4 3 (6.67%) WireMock
5 2 (4.44%) Blazor
5 2 (4.44%) CSS
5 2 (4.44%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (2.22%) COM
6 1 (2.22%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Public Cloud
2 4 (8.89%) Mobile App
2 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.44%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 27 (60.00%) Agile
3 15 (33.33%) API Testing
4 14 (31.11%) Software Testing
5 12 (26.67%) CI/CD
5 12 (26.67%) Mentoring
6 9 (20.00%) Test Scripting
7 8 (17.78%) BDD
7 8 (17.78%) DevOps
8 7 (15.56%) Software Engineering
9 6 (13.33%) Coaching
9 6 (13.33%) Performance Testing
9 6 (13.33%) Regression Testing
10 5 (11.11%) Code Quality
10 5 (11.11%) Design Patterns
10 5 (11.11%) E-Commerce
10 5 (11.11%) Manual Testing
10 5 (11.11%) Microservices
10 5 (11.11%) Migration
10 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 16 (35.56%) C#
2 14 (31.11%) JavaScript
3 13 (28.89%) Java
4 12 (26.67%) SQL
5 11 (24.44%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.67%) Python
7 1 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (8.89%) ISO 9001
2 4 (8.89%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.22%) VMware