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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 724 625
Rank change year-on-year +165 -99 +53
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 16 39 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.041% 0.055% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% 0.066% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 15 33 69
10th Percentile £43,500 - £46,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £69,250 £67,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 36,661 59,520 56,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.93% 83.89% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 17,979 41,130 29,107
10th Percentile £26,929 £27,218 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 16 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 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
East Midlands - 7 £57,500 - 1
Midlands - 7 £57,500 - 2
South West +106 4 £62,500 +4.17% 2
South East +91 3 £47,500 - 11
East of England +43 1 £55,000 +44.74% 7
Wales +38 1 - - 2
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 5 (31.25%) Azure
1 5 (31.25%) SaaS
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) BrowserStack
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (75.00%) Selenium
2 6 (37.50%) Postman
3 5 (31.25%) Cucumber
4 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (25.00%) SpecFlow
5 3 (18.75%) Appium
5 3 (18.75%) JMeter
6 2 (12.50%) Git
6 2 (12.50%) REST Assured
7 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
7 1 (6.25%) JUnit
7 1 (6.25%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (6.25%) LoadRunner
7 1 (6.25%) Maven
7 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
7 1 (6.25%) TestNG
7 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Billing
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
3 1 (6.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Automation Engineer
1 9 (56.25%) QA Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) QA Automation Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Lead
3 5 (31.25%) Senior
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Automation Tester
5 2 (12.50%) QA Automation Tester
5 2 (12.50%) QA Leader
5 2 (12.50%) QA Manager
5 2 (12.50%) QA Tester
5 2 (12.50%) Senior QA Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Software QA Tester
5 2 (12.50%) Software Tester
5 2 (12.50%) Tester
6 1 (6.25%) QA Test Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Playwright
2 3 (18.75%) .NET
2 3 (18.75%) Swagger
3 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (12.50%) Blazor
3 2 (12.50%) gRPC
3 2 (12.50%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) SOAP
3 2 (12.50%) WPF
4 1 (6.25%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Test Automation
2 8 (50.00%) Agile
3 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
4 5 (31.25%) SDLC
4 5 (31.25%) Test Strategy
5 4 (25.00%) Code Quality
5 4 (25.00%) Manual Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (18.75%) BDD
6 3 (18.75%) DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) Fintech
6 3 (18.75%) Performance Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (18.75%) Security Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Software Testing
7 2 (12.50%) API Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (12.50%) Issue Tracking
7 2 (12.50%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) C#
2 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
4 2 (12.50%) Java
4 2 (12.50%) Python
5 1 (6.25%) Go
5 1 (6.25%) Groovy
5 1 (6.25%) PHP
5 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) ISEB
2 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility