Test Automation Specialist Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Automation Test Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Automation Test Specialist salary in the UK excluding London is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 October 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 528 - 578
Rank change year-on-year - - +251
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Specialist 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% - 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% - 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £63,250 - -
25th Percentile £64,375 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £69,375 - £57,500
90th Percentile £69,750 - -
UK median annual salary £67,500 - £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

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 30,643 46,509 30,867
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.57% 95.41% 95.99%
Number of salaries quoted 17,601 25,414 23,101
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,252 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -

Test Automation Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Test Automation Specialist job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Test Automation Specialist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Test Automation Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 October 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 - 2 £67,500 -
Test Automation Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 October 2025, Test Automation Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Appium
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Postman

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

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Appium
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (50.00%) TestNG
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Advertising
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) International Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA