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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 717 617
Rank change year-on-year +211 -100 +60
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 86 30 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.040% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.042% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 12 17 78
10th Percentile £56,345 £36,250 £37,885
25th Percentile £57,425 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £52,500 £62,750
90th Percentile - £55,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 38,310 71,471 45,560
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.84% 94.93% 89.45%
Number of salaries quoted 20,896 49,387 28,770
10th Percentile £25,803 £27,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,700
Median % change year-on-year - -5.12% +3.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,571 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 13 July 2025.

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 13 July 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
South East +106 35 £60,000 +60.00% 12
Midlands +96 16 £65,000 +62.50% 2
East of England +47 16 £60,000 +60.00% 5
South West +116 13 £60,000 +14.29% 2
East Midlands +54 13 - -
North of England +36 10 £60,000 +41.18% 8
North West +9 7 £60,000 +37.14% 7
Scotland +87 3 £70,000 +27.27% 5
West Midlands +58 3 £65,000 +62.50% 2
Yorkshire +38 3 £64,900 +52.71% 1
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 13 July 2025, 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 86 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 75 (87.21%) Python
3 71 (82.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 69 (80.23%) JavaScript
5 68 (79.07%) QA
5 68 (79.07%) System Testing
5 68 (79.07%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (77.91%) Linux
6 67 (77.91%) DevOps
7 64 (74.42%) Mentoring
7 64 (74.42%) Cucumber
7 64 (74.42%) Degree
8 63 (73.26%) Coaching
8 63 (73.26%) Social Skills
9 62 (72.09%) Linux Command Line
9 62 (72.09%) Robot Framework
9 62 (72.09%) Bash
9 62 (72.09%) Test Management
9 62 (72.09%) PowerShell
9 62 (72.09%) Windows
9 62 (72.09%) TCP/IP
9 62 (72.09%) VPN
9 62 (72.09%) Telecoms
10 13 (15.12%) Java
11 12 (13.95%) Selenium
12 10 (11.63%) Docker
12 10 (11.63%) CI/CD
13 9 (10.47%) Software Testing
14 8 (9.30%) Artificial Intelligence
14 8 (9.30%) Kubernetes

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.16%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.14%) AWS
2 4 (4.65%) Amazon Bedrock
2 4 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (4.65%) Amazon S3
2 4 (4.65%) Amazon SageMaker
2 4 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (4.65%) Serverless
3 1 (1.16%) Azure
3 1 (1.16%) BrowserStack
3 1 (1.16%) GCP
3 1 (1.16%) GitHub
3 1 (1.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (72.09%) TCP/IP
1 62 (72.09%) VPN
2 2 (2.33%) Modbus
3 1 (1.16%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.49%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 64 (74.42%) Cucumber
2 62 (72.09%) Robot Framework
3 12 (13.95%) Selenium
4 8 (9.30%) Jenkins
5 4 (4.65%) Git
5 4 (4.65%) Locust
5 4 (4.65%) Postman
6 3 (3.49%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.49%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.33%) GitLab
7 2 (2.33%) JMeter
7 2 (2.33%) JUnit
8 1 (1.16%) JIRA
8 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.16%) TestNG
General
1 71 (82.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 63 (73.26%) Social Skills
3 62 (72.09%) Telecoms
4 5 (5.81%) Marketing
5 4 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.65%) Finance
5 4 (4.65%) Law
5 4 (4.65%) Tech for Good
6 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.16%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.14%) pytest
2 6 (6.98%) Playwright
3 2 (2.33%) REST
3 2 (2.33%) SOAP
4 1 (1.16%) Apache Cordova
4 1 (1.16%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (1.16%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 62 (72.09%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (2.33%) Biopharmaceutical
2 2 (2.33%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.33%) Operational Technology
2 2 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (2.33%) SCADA
3 1 (1.16%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (1.16%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 67 (77.91%) Linux
2 62 (72.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 68 (79.07%) Problem-Solving
2 68 (79.07%) System Testing
3 67 (77.91%) DevOps
4 64 (74.42%) Mentoring
5 63 (73.26%) Coaching
6 62 (72.09%) Test Management
7 10 (11.63%) CI/CD
8 9 (10.47%) Software Testing
9 8 (9.30%) API Testing
9 8 (9.30%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (9.30%) Machine Learning
10 6 (6.98%) Test Scripting
11 5 (5.81%) BDD
11 5 (5.81%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (5.81%) Software Engineering
11 5 (5.81%) TDD
12 4 (4.65%) Agile
12 4 (4.65%) SDLC
13 3 (3.49%) Defect Tracking
Programming Languages
1 75 (87.21%) Python
2 69 (80.23%) JavaScript
3 62 (72.09%) Bash
3 62 (72.09%) PowerShell
4 13 (15.12%) Java
5 5 (5.81%) SQL
6 3 (3.49%) C#
6 3 (3.49%) Go
6 3 (3.49%) PHP
7 2 (2.33%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.16%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 64 (74.42%) Degree
2 8 (9.30%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.98%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.49%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.33%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (79.07%) QA
2 2 (2.33%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (11.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (9.30%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.33%) Ansible
2 2 (2.33%) Functional Safety
2 2 (2.33%) Terraform
3 1 (1.16%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.16%) Puppet
3 1 (1.16%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (4.65%) Databricks
2 1 (1.16%) Brocade
2 1 (1.16%) Cisco
2 1 (1.16%) CyberSource
2 1 (1.16%) EMC
2 1 (1.16%) HP
2 1 (1.16%) IBM
2 1 (1.16%) VMware