Test Automation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Automated Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 94 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 -58 -1
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 1,234 1,968 4,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.13% 2.77% 6.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% 3.31% 7.25%
Number of salaries quoted 665 1,163 1,495
10th Percentile £37,716 £36,250 £36,850
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% -8.70% +8.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £75,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Test Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,661 59,520 56,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.93% 83.89% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 17,979 41,130 29,107
10th Percentile £26,929 £27,218 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the UK excluding London

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the UK excluding London

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the UK excluding London

Test Automation
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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 +8 323 £60,000 +9.09% 386
North of England +7 321 £55,000 - 327
North West -14 225 £53,750 -2.27% 182
Midlands +16 194 £57,500 +15.00% 174
South West +52 160 £59,000 +4.42% 170
Scotland +1 132 £60,000 +20.00% 95
West Midlands -5 105 £60,000 +14.29% 97
East Midlands +55 89 £52,500 +10.53% 73
East of England +15 75 £57,000 +3.64% 127
Yorkshire +26 67 £50,223 -8.69% 106
North East +40 29 £59,002 -1.66% 42
Wales +1 28 £60,000 +20.00% 42
Northern Ireland +40 10 £55,000 -4.35% 46
Test Automation
UK

Test Automation
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
1 178 (14.42%) Confluence
2 10 (0.81%) Apache Spark
3 9 (0.73%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.57%) SAS
5 6 (0.49%) nginx
5 6 (0.49%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.41%) CMS
6 5 (0.41%) JBoss
7 3 (0.24%) Apache
8 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.16%) CICS
9 1 (0.081%) Appian
9 1 (0.081%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.081%) IIS
9 1 (0.081%) Mendix
9 1 (0.081%) Moodle
9 1 (0.081%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.081%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.081%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.32%) SOLIDWORKS
3 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.081%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.081%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.16%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.081%) Magento
2 1 (0.081%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.081%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 474 (38.41%) Azure
2 416 (33.71%) AWS
3 255 (20.66%) GCP
4 87 (7.05%) Azure DevOps
5 62 (5.02%) Serverless
6 48 (3.89%) GitHub
6 48 (3.89%) SaaS
7 46 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (2.19%) PaaS
9 23 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (1.46%) Power Platform
11 16 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (1.13%) Amazon S3
12 14 (1.13%) npm
13 13 (1.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 11 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (0.89%) Azure Service Bus
14 11 (0.89%) OpenShift
15 10 (0.81%) Apigee
15 10 (0.81%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 70 (5.67%) TCP/IP
2 65 (5.27%) VPN
3 18 (1.46%) 5G
3 18 (1.46%) SD-WAN
3 18 (1.46%) WAN
4 12 (0.97%) Firewall
5 11 (0.89%) Internet
5 11 (0.89%) Network Security
6 8 (0.65%) Bluetooth
7 7 (0.57%) BGP
7 7 (0.57%) DNS
8 6 (0.49%) OSPF
8 6 (0.49%) SAN
8 6 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.41%) Multicast
10 4 (0.32%) Broadband
10 4 (0.32%) EIGRP
11 2 (0.16%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.16%) FTP
11 2 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 297 (24.07%) SQL Server
2 42 (3.40%) NoSQL
3 36 (2.92%) DynamoDB
4 33 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (2.59%) MySQL
6 30 (2.43%) MongoDB
7 26 (2.11%) Relational Database
8 18 (1.46%) Big Data
9 14 (1.13%) Power BI
10 10 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (0.81%) Cloud Spanner
11 8 (0.65%) DB2
12 7 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.49%) Oracle Database
14 5 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
15 3 (0.24%) Couchbase
15 3 (0.24%) Data Lake
16 2 (0.16%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 376 (30.47%) Selenium
2 366 (29.66%) JIRA
3 353 (28.61%) Cucumber
4 280 (22.69%) SonarQube
5 276 (22.37%) Maven
6 274 (22.20%) GitLab
6 274 (22.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 253 (20.50%) Bitbucket
8 138 (11.18%) Git
9 94 (7.62%) Jenkins
10 65 (5.27%) Robot Framework
11 61 (4.94%) Postman
12 44 (3.57%) Cypress.io
13 33 (2.67%) JUnit
14 26 (2.11%) Appium
15 23 (1.86%) SpecFlow
16 22 (1.78%) JMeter
17 21 (1.70%) eggPlant
18 19 (1.54%) Visual Studio
19 17 (1.38%) webpack
General
1 458 (37.12%) Finance
2 357 (28.93%) Banking
3 355 (28.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 306 (24.80%) Social Skills
5 109 (8.83%) Retail
6 90 (7.29%) Corporate Banking
6 90 (7.29%) Investment Banking
7 86 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
8 66 (5.35%) Telecoms
9 41 (3.32%) Electronics
10 35 (2.84%) Law
10 35 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (2.43%) Public Sector
12 24 (1.94%) Aerospace
12 24 (1.94%) Games
12 24 (1.94%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.78%) Legal
14 19 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (0.81%) Marketing
16 9 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 410 (33.23%) Software Engineer
2 305 (24.72%) Senior
3 175 (14.18%) Test Engineer
4 169 (13.70%) Lead
5 122 (9.89%) Developer
6 85 (6.89%) Test Automation Engineer
7 84 (6.81%) Senior Software Engineer
8 78 (6.32%) Analyst
9 68 (5.51%) Senior Test Engineer
10 66 (5.35%) Senior Developer
11 65 (5.27%) Test Analyst
12 63 (5.11%) Software Test Engineer
13 56 (4.54%) Senior Software Test Engineer
14 54 (4.38%) DevOps Engineer
15 43 (3.48%) Software Developer
16 42 (3.40%) QA Engineer
17 41 (3.32%) Software Team Leader
17 41 (3.32%) Team Leader
18 33 (2.67%) Automation Engineer
19 32 (2.59%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (28.69%) React
2 328 (26.58%) Spring Boot
3 303 (24.55%) HTML
4 299 (24.23%) CSS
5 297 (24.07%) Spring
6 283 (22.93%) Kafka
7 255 (20.66%) Redux
8 248 (20.10%) JPA
9 169 (13.70%) Hibernate
10 158 (12.80%) RESTful
11 140 (11.35%) REST
12 109 (8.83%) Jest
13 101 (8.18%) HTML5
14 98 (7.94%) CSS3
15 91 (7.37%) Sass
16 86 (6.97%) .NET
17 67 (5.43%) Node.js
18 50 (4.05%) Playwright
19 38 (3.08%) GraphQL
20 30 (2.43%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 308 (24.96%) Product Ownership
2 258 (20.91%) Enterprise Software
3 64 (5.19%) Linux Command Line
4 45 (3.65%) Public Cloud
5 39 (3.16%) Mobile App
6 27 (2.19%) Cloud Native
7 25 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (2.03%) Management Information System
8 24 (1.94%) Algorithms
9 22 (1.78%) e-Learning
9 22 (1.78%) Embedded Systems
10 20 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (1.62%) Security Posture
10 20 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (1.62%) Virtual Team
11 19 (1.54%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.54%) Satnav
11 19 (1.54%) SCADA
12 18 (1.46%) Operational Technology
12 18 (1.46%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 139 (11.26%) Linux
2 110 (8.91%) Windows
3 28 (2.27%) Apple iOS
4 25 (2.03%) Android
5 16 (1.30%) Unix
6 5 (0.41%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.16%) VMS
9 1 (0.081%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 703 (56.97%) Agile
2 551 (44.65%) DevOps
3 529 (42.87%) CI/CD
4 504 (40.84%) Software Engineering
5 393 (31.85%) Microservices
6 372 (30.15%) Containerisation
7 349 (28.28%) SDLC
8 336 (27.23%) Mentoring
9 332 (26.90%) Full-Stack Development
10 286 (23.18%) Software Testing
11 270 (21.88%) Front End Development
12 262 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
13 254 (20.58%) Performance Optimisation
14 253 (20.50%) TDD
15 208 (16.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 207 (16.77%) Clean Code
17 197 (15.96%) Computer Science
18 166 (13.45%) User Experience
19 135 (10.94%) Validation
20 134 (10.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 492 (39.87%) Java
2 482 (39.06%) JavaScript
3 370 (29.98%) SQL
4 257 (20.83%) Python
5 194 (15.72%) TypeScript
6 153 (12.40%) C#
7 89 (7.21%) PowerShell
8 76 (6.16%) C++
9 72 (5.83%) Bash
10 62 (5.02%) Rust
11 45 (3.65%) C
12 32 (2.59%) PHP
13 16 (1.30%) Go
14 15 (1.22%) Ada
15 12 (0.97%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.81%) Groovy
17 8 (0.65%) Embedded C
17 8 (0.65%) MATLAB
18 7 (0.57%) R
18 7 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 297 (24.07%) Degree
2 104 (8.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 71 (5.75%) ISTQB
4 47 (3.81%) Security Cleared
5 44 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (1.86%) HND
6 23 (1.86%) SC Cleared
7 17 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.30%) HNC
8 16 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.13%) Chartered Engineer
10 12 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 7 (0.57%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.41%) ACCA
12 5 (0.41%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.41%) CIMA
12 5 (0.41%) OCP
12 5 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.24%) ISEB
14 2 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 460 (37.28%) QA
2 107 (8.67%) Accessibility
3 50 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 21 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (1.62%) NCSC
5 20 (1.62%) NIST
6 16 (1.30%) GDPR
7 12 (0.97%) PMO
8 8 (0.65%) Basel III
8 8 (0.65%) IFRS
8 8 (0.65%) IFRS 9
9 7 (0.57%) Basel II
9 7 (0.57%) Dodd-Frank
9 7 (0.57%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.24%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.24%) PMBOK
10 3 (0.24%) WCAG
11 2 (0.16%) JTAG
11 2 (0.16%) MISRA
11 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 374 (30.31%) Docker
2 10 (0.81%) Firmware
3 6 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
3 6 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.24%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.081%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.081%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 384 (31.12%) Kubernetes
2 87 (7.05%) Terraform
3 34 (2.76%) Ansible
4 13 (1.05%) Istio
5 10 (0.81%) Grafana
6 6 (0.49%) Packer
6 6 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.41%) Kustomize
8 4 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.24%) Argo
10 2 (0.16%) Iperf
10 2 (0.16%) Puppet
10 2 (0.16%) Rancher
11 1 (0.081%) CA Service Virtualization
11 1 (0.081%) cPanel
11 1 (0.081%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.081%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.081%) vRealize
Vendors
1 246 (19.94%) Solace
2 83 (6.73%) Microsoft
3 34 (2.76%) IBM
4 28 (2.27%) Oracle
5 25 (2.03%) Red Hat
5 25 (2.03%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.70%) Keysight
7 16 (1.30%) Google
8 13 (1.05%) VMware
9 11 (0.89%) Cisco
10 9 (0.73%) Databricks
11 7 (0.57%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.49%) SAP
13 5 (0.41%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.41%) F5
14 4 (0.32%) Adobe
14 4 (0.32%) Agilent
14 4 (0.32%) Dynatrace
14 4 (0.32%) Intel
14 4 (0.32%) Tealium