Test Automation Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Automation Test Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Automation Test Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 508 570
Rank change year-on-year -112 +62 -70
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 60 24 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.068% 0.070% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.078% 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 40 16 19
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £40,563 £51,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +12.47%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,625 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,375 £68,750 £64,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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.

6 months to
23 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 81,821 30,741 46,523
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 89.62% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 56,202 17,694 25,401
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,497 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.89% -9.01% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £52,500 £56,252
% change year-on-year +12.38% -6.67% -6.25%

Test Automation Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Test Automation Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Test Automation Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Test Automation Engineer Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Test Automation Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Test Automation Engineer job vacancies 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 October 2026.

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 October 2026. 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 of England -26 17 £40,000 -33.33% 19
South West -65 14 £42,500 -10.53% 11
Scotland +13 12 £61,250 -12.50% 9
Wales -63 5 £70,000 - 4
North of England -72 5 £55,000 +2.80% 35
Midlands -63 4 - - 14
Yorkshire -35 3 £72,500 +35.51% 7
West Midlands -45 3 - - 9
South East -65 3 £80,000 +39.13% 31
North West -33 1 £50,000 - 13
East Midlands - 1 - - 5
North East - 1 £55,000 - 15
Test Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 October 2026, Test Automation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Test Automation100.0%60
2Agile33.3%20
2Software Testing33.3%20
4Selenium26.7%16
5CI/CD25.0%15
5Jenkins25.0%15
7Python23.3%14
7QA23.3%14
9Playwright21.7%13
9Security Cleared21.7%13
11GitLab20.0%12
12Test Management18.3%11
12Test Scripting18.3%11
14AWS16.7%10
14DevOps16.7%10
16Cypress.io15.0%9
16JavaScript15.0%9
16Windows15.0%9
19BDD13.3%8
19Git13.3%8
19JMeter13.3%8
19Problem-Solving13.3%8
23API Testing11.7%7
23Bash11.7%7
23JIRA11.7%7
23Linux11.7%7
23Robot Framework11.7%7
23Scrum11.7%7
29Continuous Improvement10.0%6
29Grafana10.0%6

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Test Engineer83.3%50
2Senior Test Automation Engineer20.0%12
3Hardware Engineer16.7%10
4QA Automation Engineer10.0%6
4QA Test Engineer10.0%6
6Infrastructure Engineer8.3%5
7Software Test Engineer6.7%4
8Python Engineer3.3%2
8Software QA Engineer3.3%2
10AWS Engineer1.7%1
10C# Software Engineer1.7%1
10Senior QA Engineer1.7%1
10Software Development Engineer1.7%1
10Test Development Engineer1.7%1
128 Test Automation Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London