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 22 May 2025.

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

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 742 644
Rank change year-on-year +244 -98 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 84 29 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.040% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.043% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 15 22 80
10th Percentile £55,000 £36,250 £37,885
25th Percentile £55,625 £37,500 £42,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -22.73% +17.33%
75th Percentile £62,875 £45,938 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £54,875 £80,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -18.18% -

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 35,201 68,043 52,511
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 94.85% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 17,750 48,018 29,945
10th Percentile £26,929 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -6.24% +6.65%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 22 May 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 22 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
South East +120 36 £60,750 +62.00% 9
East of England +53 16 £55,000 +46.67% 3
Midlands +69 15 - - 1
East Midlands - 13 - - 1
South West +107 10 £60,000 +9.09% 10
North of England +57 9 £65,000 +52.94% 11
North West +4 6 £71,250 +62.86% 9
Scotland +129 5 £55,000 +12.82% 2
Yorkshire +68 3 £64,900 +52.71% 1
West Midlands +67 2 - -
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 22 May 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 84 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 77 (91.67%) Python
3 72 (85.71%) JavaScript
3 72 (85.71%) Linux
3 72 (85.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 67 (79.76%) QA
5 66 (78.57%) System Testing
5 66 (78.57%) DevOps
5 66 (78.57%) Problem-Solving
6 65 (77.38%) Cucumber
7 64 (76.19%) Social Skills
8 63 (75.00%) Mentoring
8 63 (75.00%) Coaching
9 62 (73.81%) Bash
9 62 (73.81%) Linux Command Line
9 62 (73.81%) Robot Framework
9 62 (73.81%) Degree
9 62 (73.81%) Test Management
9 62 (73.81%) PowerShell
9 62 (73.81%) Windows
9 62 (73.81%) TCP/IP
9 62 (73.81%) VPN
9 62 (73.81%) Telecoms
10 14 (16.67%) Java
11 12 (14.29%) Selenium
12 10 (11.90%) Software Testing
12 10 (11.90%) CI/CD
13 8 (9.52%) SQL
13 8 (9.52%) SDLC
14 7 (8.33%) 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 (1.19%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.38%) AWS
2 1 (1.19%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (1.19%) Amazon S3
2 1 (1.19%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (1.19%) Azure
2 1 (1.19%) BrowserStack
2 1 (1.19%) GCP
2 1 (1.19%) GitHub
2 1 (1.19%) SaaS
2 1 (1.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 62 (73.81%) TCP/IP
1 62 (73.81%) VPN
2 1 (1.19%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 65 (77.38%) Cucumber
2 62 (73.81%) Robot Framework
3 12 (14.29%) Selenium
4 6 (7.14%) JUnit
5 5 (5.95%) TestNG
6 4 (4.76%) Git
6 4 (4.76%) Jenkins
6 4 (4.76%) Postman
6 4 (4.76%) SoapUI
7 3 (3.57%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.38%) GitLab
8 2 (2.38%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.19%) Appium
9 1 (1.19%) JIRA
9 1 (1.19%) JMeter
9 1 (1.19%) Locust
9 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
General
1 72 (85.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 64 (76.19%) Social Skills
3 62 (73.81%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.38%) Marketing
4 2 (2.38%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.19%) Banking
5 1 (1.19%) Finance
5 1 (1.19%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.95%) pytest
2 3 (3.57%) OpenFin
2 3 (3.57%) SOAP
3 2 (2.38%) Playwright
4 1 (1.19%) Apache Cordova
4 1 (1.19%) Django
4 1 (1.19%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (1.19%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 62 (73.81%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.19%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (1.19%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.19%) Raspberry Pi
3 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 72 (85.71%) Linux
2 62 (73.81%) Windows
3 2 (2.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 66 (78.57%) DevOps
2 66 (78.57%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (78.57%) System Testing
3 63 (75.00%) Coaching
3 63 (75.00%) Mentoring
4 62 (73.81%) Test Management
5 10 (11.90%) CI/CD
5 10 (11.90%) Software Testing
6 8 (9.52%) SDLC
7 6 (7.14%) Exploratory Testing
8 5 (5.95%) Agile
8 5 (5.95%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (5.95%) BDD
8 5 (5.95%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (5.95%) Machine Learning
8 5 (5.95%) SDET
8 5 (5.95%) TDD
9 4 (4.76%) Fintech
9 4 (4.76%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 77 (91.67%) Python
2 72 (85.71%) JavaScript
3 62 (73.81%) Bash
3 62 (73.81%) PowerShell
4 14 (16.67%) Java
5 8 (9.52%) SQL
6 3 (3.57%) Go
6 3 (3.57%) PHP
7 2 (2.38%) C#
7 2 (2.38%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.19%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 62 (73.81%) Degree
2 6 (7.14%) DV Cleared
2 6 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (79.76%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.38%) Ansible
2 2 (2.38%) Terraform
3 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.19%) Puppet
3 1 (1.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (1.19%) Brocade
1 1 (1.19%) Cisco
1 1 (1.19%) CyberSource
1 1 (1.19%) Databricks
1 1 (1.19%) EMC
1 1 (1.19%) HP
1 1 (1.19%) IBM
1 1 (1.19%) VMware