QA Automation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring QA Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA Automation over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 739 653
Rank change year-on-year +173 -86 +39
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 14 36 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.036% 0.049% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% 0.059% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 13 30 66
10th Percentile £43,000 £42,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -10.64% +5.86%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,188 £66,875
90th Percentile £71,500 £67,500 £71,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

QA Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,163 61,036 55,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.74% 82.48% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17,188 42,006 28,807
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,336 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 May 2025.

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 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
East Midlands - 5 £57,500 - 13
Midlands - 5 £57,500 - 33
South West +117 4 £62,500 +6.38% 19
Wales +47 2 £60,000 -27.27% 7
South East +88 1 £57,500 +21.05% 60
East of England +41 1 £55,000 +44.74% 30
North of England +39 1 £55,000 +4.76% 44
Yorkshire - 1 £55,000 - 15
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) SaaS
3 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) BrowserStack
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Selenium
2 7 (50.00%) Postman
3 4 (28.57%) Cucumber
3 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
4 3 (21.43%) JMeter
5 2 (14.29%) Git
5 2 (14.29%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (14.29%) REST Assured
5 2 (14.29%) SoapUI
5 2 (14.29%) SpecFlow
6 1 (7.14%) Appium
6 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
6 1 (7.14%) JUnit
6 1 (7.14%) LoadRunner
6 1 (7.14%) Maven
6 1 (7.14%) TestNG
6 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
3 1 (7.14%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Automation Engineer
1 10 (71.43%) QA Engineer
2 8 (57.14%) QA Automation Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Lead
3 4 (28.57%) Senior
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) QA Leader
5 2 (14.29%) QA Manager
5 2 (14.29%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Playwright
2 3 (21.43%) SOAP
2 3 (21.43%) Swagger
3 2 (14.29%) pytest
3 2 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Test Automation
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
3 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Fintech
4 4 (28.57%) Manual Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) SDLC
5 3 (21.43%) BDD
5 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Security Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
6 2 (14.29%) API Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (14.29%) Code Quality
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) Defect Tracking
6 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) C#
2 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 3 (21.43%) Java
3 3 (21.43%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 2 (14.29%) Go
4 2 (14.29%) PHP
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (7.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) ISEB
1 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Pega