Test Automation Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Automation Test Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Automation Test Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 724 643 618
Rank change year-on-year -81 -25 -130
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 27 111 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.18% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.20% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 20 76 183
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £37,188 £43,750 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £45,000 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £53,000 £83,125 £63,500
UK median annual salary £44,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -19.55% - +10.00%

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 66,104 55,639 67,661
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.29% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,008 31,467 43,049
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,307
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,639 £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 £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Test Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Test Automation Engineer
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 Test Automation Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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 -4 8 £37,500 -28.57% 4
North of England +23 4 £42,500 -26.09% 2
Wales +3 4 £45,000 -
South West -39 4 £60,000 +26.32% 3
East of England +34 3 £37,500 +2.74% 2
West Midlands +17 3 £40,000 -38.46%
Midlands +7 3 £40,000 -38.46%
Yorkshire +78 2 £42,500 -46.88% 1
North West 0 2 £43,750 +2.94%
Scotland -67 1 £42,500 -5.56%
Test Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Test Automation Engineer 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 Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (48.15%) Agile
2 13 (48.15%) Test Scripting
3 12 (44.44%) Software Testing
3 12 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 11 (40.74%) Selenium
4 11 (40.74%) BDD
5 9 (33.33%) QA
5 9 (33.33%) Manual Testing
6 8 (29.63%) JIRA
6 8 (29.63%) Python
6 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (25.93%) Cucumber
7 7 (25.93%) Non-Functional Testing
7 7 (25.93%) API Testing
7 7 (25.93%) Finance
8 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
8 6 (22.22%) Cypress.io
8 6 (22.22%) Jenkins
9 5 (18.52%) Test Strategy
9 5 (18.52%) SpecFlow
9 5 (18.52%) SDLC
9 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (18.52%) DevOps
9 5 (18.52%) Postman
9 5 (18.52%) Fintech
9 5 (18.52%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (18.52%) Git
9 5 (18.52%) Performance Testing
9 5 (18.52%) Java

Test Automation Engineer 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 4 (14.81%) SaaS
2 3 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (7.41%) Azure
4 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Firebase
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (40.74%) Selenium
2 8 (29.63%) JIRA
3 7 (25.93%) Cucumber
4 6 (22.22%) Cypress.io
4 6 (22.22%) Jenkins
5 5 (18.52%) Git
5 5 (18.52%) Postman
5 5 (18.52%) SpecFlow
6 4 (14.81%) GitLab
6 4 (14.81%) JBehave
6 4 (14.81%) TeamCity
7 3 (11.11%) Appium
8 2 (7.41%) UI Automator
9 1 (3.70%) HP UFT
9 1 (3.70%) JUnit
9 1 (3.70%) MSTest
9 1 (3.70%) PHPUnit
9 1 (3.70%) Protractor
9 1 (3.70%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (3.70%) Travis CI
General
1 7 (25.93%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Retail
3 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Automotive
5 2 (7.41%) Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) Gherkin
2 2 (7.41%) Spring
2 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.70%) Behat
3 1 (3.70%) Node.js
3 1 (3.70%) Playwright
3 1 (3.70%) Puppeteer
3 1 (3.70%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (14.81%) Data Centre
3 3 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (7.41%) Client/Server
4 2 (7.41%) Mobile App
4 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Android
2 3 (11.11%) Apple iOS
2 3 (11.11%) Linux
3 2 (7.41%) Mac OS
3 2 (7.41%) Mac OS X
3 2 (7.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (48.15%) Agile
2 13 (48.15%) Test Scripting
3 12 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 12 (44.44%) Software Testing
4 11 (40.74%) BDD
5 9 (33.33%) Manual Testing
6 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (25.93%) API Testing
7 7 (25.93%) Non-Functional Testing
8 5 (18.52%) DevOps
8 5 (18.52%) Fintech
8 5 (18.52%) Performance Testing
8 5 (18.52%) SDLC
8 5 (18.52%) Test Strategy
9 4 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (14.81%) User Experience
10 3 (11.11%) Analytics
10 3 (11.11%) Functional Testing
10 3 (11.11%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) Python
2 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 5 (18.52%) Java
4 3 (11.11%) C#
5 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) ISTQB
2 3 (11.11%) Degree
3 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (33.33%) QA