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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 65 38
Rank change year-on-year -38 -27 +5
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 1,517 2,335 5,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.32% 4.85% 6.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 5.08% 7.28%
Number of salaries quoted 893 1,231 3,136
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £34,503
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,607
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +4.35%

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 51,975 45,995 74,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.63% 95.53% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 33,355 26,900 43,045
10th Percentile £28,371 £30,500 £30,076
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,050 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
North of England -30 353 £57,500 - 33
South East -56 347 £55,000 -4.35% 64
Scotland -5 299 £50,000 -13.04% 23
North West +14 230 £57,500 - 22
South West -46 200 £60,000 +4.35% 46
Midlands -83 193 £52,500 -12.50% 39
West Midlands -45 150 £52,500 -12.50% 30
Yorkshire -33 105 £55,000 -8.33% 9
East of England -75 70 £47,500 -24.00% 25
Wales -20 46 £50,000 +4.17% 4
East Midlands -107 42 £48,500 -19.17% 9
North East -42 18 £65,465 +15.87% 2
Northern Ireland -12 9 £46,250 -11.90% 22
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 61 (4.02%) Apache Spark
2 50 (3.30%) Confluence
3 18 (1.19%) Apache
4 15 (0.99%) Cloud Foundry
4 15 (0.99%) CMS
5 11 (0.73%) IIS
5 11 (0.73%) Tuxedo
6 7 (0.46%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.40%) SAS
8 5 (0.33%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.33%) WordPress
9 4 (0.26%) JBoss
9 4 (0.26%) TWiki
9 4 (0.26%) WildFly
10 2 (0.13%) nginx
10 2 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.066%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.066%) Drupal
Applications
1 25 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.13%) Fusion 360
5 2 (0.13%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.13%) Simulink
5 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.066%) Doxygen
6 1 (0.066%) Mathematica
6 1 (0.066%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 11 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.26%) SAP ERP
2 4 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.066%) Magento
4 1 (0.066%) Postilion
4 1 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.066%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 393 (25.91%) AWS
2 334 (22.02%) Azure
3 126 (8.31%) SaaS
4 110 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (5.80%) OCI
6 84 (5.54%) Amazon S3
7 81 (5.34%) GitHub
8 80 (5.27%) Amazon EKS
9 77 (5.08%) Route 53
10 76 (5.01%) Amazon ECR
10 76 (5.01%) IBM Cloud
11 53 (3.49%) GCP
12 41 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
13 36 (2.37%) PaaS
13 36 (2.37%) Serverless
14 32 (2.11%) IaaS
15 29 (1.91%) BlazeMeter
16 27 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
17 22 (1.45%) Power Platform
18 19 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 53 (3.49%) 5G
2 47 (3.10%) Kerberos
3 40 (2.64%) WAN
4 39 (2.57%) SD-WAN
5 30 (1.98%) Wireless
6 27 (1.78%) HTTP
7 26 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (1.05%) DNS
8 16 (1.05%) MQTT
8 16 (1.05%) Network Security
8 16 (1.05%) RS-485
9 15 (0.99%) 4G
9 15 (0.99%) Bluetooth
10 14 (0.92%) Internet
11 13 (0.86%) 3G
11 13 (0.86%) TCP/IP
12 8 (0.53%) Ethernet
12 8 (0.53%) GSM
12 8 (0.53%) LTE
12 8 (0.53%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (10.88%) NoSQL
2 93 (6.13%) SQL Server
3 84 (5.54%) Amazon RDS
4 63 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
5 60 (3.96%) Apache Hive
5 60 (3.96%) HBase
6 58 (3.82%) MongoDB
7 56 (3.69%) MySQL
8 53 (3.49%) Relational Database
9 44 (2.90%) Metadata
10 33 (2.18%) Big Data
11 32 (2.11%) Hadoop
12 21 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
13 20 (1.32%) DynamoDB
14 12 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (0.66%) Power BI
16 9 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
17 8 (0.53%) MariaDB
18 7 (0.46%) Oracle Database
18 7 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 298 (19.64%) Git
2 237 (15.62%) Selenium
3 200 (13.18%) Jenkins
4 131 (8.64%) JIRA
5 85 (5.60%) Cypress.io
6 84 (5.54%) JMeter
7 83 (5.47%) Bitbucket
8 79 (5.21%) Cucumber
9 66 (4.35%) Postman
10 62 (4.09%) Bitbucket Server
10 62 (4.09%) Visual Studio
11 45 (2.97%) Artifactory
12 36 (2.37%) Appium
13 35 (2.31%) LabVIEW
14 33 (2.18%) WebDriver
15 31 (2.04%) JUnit
15 31 (2.04%) TeamCity
16 28 (1.85%) REST Assured
16 28 (1.85%) SonarQube
16 28 (1.85%) SpecFlow
General
1 386 (25.44%) Social Skills
2 317 (20.90%) Finance
3 302 (19.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 208 (13.71%) Law
5 163 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
5 163 (10.74%) Public Sector
6 96 (6.33%) Marketing
7 71 (4.68%) Legal
8 64 (4.22%) Electronics
9 56 (3.69%) Retail
10 44 (2.90%) Aerospace
11 43 (2.83%) Banking
11 43 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
12 39 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
13 35 (2.31%) Automotive
14 33 (2.18%) Games
15 28 (1.85%) Investment Banking
16 26 (1.71%) Manufacturing
16 26 (1.71%) Tech for Good
17 21 (1.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 351 (23.14%) Software Engineer
2 323 (21.29%) Senior
3 311 (20.50%) Developer
4 159 (10.48%) Lead
5 148 (9.76%) Test Engineer
6 122 (8.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 113 (7.45%) Senior Software Engineer
8 108 (7.12%) Tester
9 93 (6.13%) AWS Engineer
9 93 (6.13%) Java Engineer
10 82 (5.41%) QA Engineer
11 80 (5.27%) Java Software Engineer
12 78 (5.14%) Software Developer
13 73 (4.81%) Analyst
13 73 (4.81%) Senior DevOps
13 73 (4.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 66 (4.35%) AWS Software Engineer
15 64 (4.22%) Lead Software Engineer
16 62 (4.09%) Senior Developer
17 55 (3.63%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (12.59%) .NET
2 156 (10.28%) React
3 153 (10.09%) RESTful
4 115 (7.58%) CSS
4 115 (7.58%) HTML
5 98 (6.46%) JSON
6 96 (6.33%) Web Services
7 81 (5.34%) REST
8 80 (5.27%) AngularJS
9 79 (5.21%) XML
10 72 (4.75%) Spring
11 65 (4.28%) Spring Boot
12 64 (4.22%) .NET Core
13 58 (3.82%) Node.js
13 58 (3.82%) OpenID
14 55 (3.63%) ASP.NET
15 49 (3.23%) Playwright
16 47 (3.10%) LDAP
17 44 (2.90%) .NET Framework
17 44 (2.90%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 93 (6.13%) Management Information System
2 91 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 87 (5.74%) Self-Motivation
4 83 (5.47%) Algorithms
5 80 (5.27%) e-Learning
6 76 (5.01%) Blockchain
7 69 (4.55%) Product Ownership
8 61 (4.02%) Mobile App
9 49 (3.23%) Enterprise Cloud
10 44 (2.90%) Reference Data
11 39 (2.57%) Onboarding
12 37 (2.44%) Cloud Native
13 36 (2.37%) Public Cloud
14 33 (2.18%) Embedded Systems
14 33 (2.18%) Market Risk
15 30 (1.98%) IoT
16 28 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
17 24 (1.58%) GNSS
18 19 (1.25%) Satnav
19 17 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 171 (11.27%) Linux
2 105 (6.92%) Windows
3 88 (5.80%) Unix
4 34 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (1.85%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.45%) Android
7 21 (1.38%) Windows Server
8 16 (1.05%) Embedded Linux
9 13 (0.86%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.66%) Debian
11 9 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (0.40%) FreeRTOS
12 6 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.26%) VMS
14 3 (0.20%) CentOS
15 1 (0.066%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 869 (57.28%) Agile
2 508 (33.49%) Software Engineering
3 435 (28.68%) CI/CD
4 425 (28.02%) DevOps
5 384 (25.31%) Software Testing
6 316 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
7 312 (20.57%) Mentoring
8 253 (16.68%) TDD
9 247 (16.28%) SDLC
10 222 (14.63%) Coaching
11 209 (13.78%) Artificial Intelligence
11 209 (13.78%) Containerisation
12 206 (13.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 200 (13.18%) Scrum
14 183 (12.06%) Continuous Integration
15 178 (11.73%) Test Scripting
16 171 (11.27%) Microservices
17 159 (10.48%) Computer Science
18 148 (9.76%) Operational Stability
19 147 (9.69%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 393 (25.91%) SQL
2 357 (23.53%) Java
3 347 (22.87%) Python
4 310 (20.44%) JavaScript
5 260 (17.14%) C#
6 106 (6.99%) C++
7 97 (6.39%) TypeScript
8 90 (5.93%) C
9 70 (4.61%) PL/SQL
10 69 (4.55%) Go
11 45 (2.97%) PHP
12 44 (2.90%) Prolog
12 44 (2.90%) SPARQL
13 42 (2.77%) Kotlin
14 33 (2.18%) MATLAB
15 26 (1.71%) Perl
16 23 (1.52%) Bash
16 23 (1.52%) PowerShell
17 21 (1.38%) T-SQL
18 16 (1.05%) VB
Qualifications
1 282 (18.59%) Degree
2 193 (12.72%) Security Cleared
3 111 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 84 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 74 (4.88%) ISTQB
6 54 (3.56%) DV Cleared
7 30 (1.98%) Master's Degree
8 18 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 15 (0.99%) HND
11 14 (0.92%) Azure Certification
12 13 (0.86%) ISEB
13 12 (0.79%) DBS Check
14 10 (0.66%) AWS Certification
15 6 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.33%) PhD
17 3 (0.20%) BC Cleared
18 2 (0.13%) CIPD
18 2 (0.13%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 358 (23.60%) QA
2 26 (1.71%) GDPR
3 22 (1.45%) ISO 9001
4 20 (1.32%) PMO
5 19 (1.25%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.19%) NCSC
7 16 (1.05%) Software Quality Assurance
8 10 (0.66%) HIPAA
9 9 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.46%) JTAG
10 7 (0.46%) MISRA
11 5 (0.33%) MISRA C
11 5 (0.33%) SLA
12 4 (0.26%) Data Quality
12 4 (0.26%) DICOM
12 4 (0.26%) HL7
12 4 (0.26%) ISO 13485
13 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.13%) NIST
14 1 (0.066%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 163 (10.74%) Docker
2 60 (3.96%) HDFS
3 58 (3.82%) Active Directory
4 36 (2.37%) Firmware
5 26 (1.71%) Embedded Firmware
6 10 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
7 9 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.13%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.066%) GlusterFS
9 1 (0.066%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 239 (15.75%) Terraform
2 214 (14.11%) Kubernetes
3 82 (5.41%) Prometheus
4 62 (4.09%) Ansible
5 18 (1.19%) Progress Chef
5 18 (1.19%) Puppet
6 15 (0.99%) Salt
7 12 (0.79%) Grafana
8 11 (0.73%) Kibana
9 7 (0.46%) MIIS
10 5 (0.33%) WMI
11 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.13%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.13%) Nagios
11 2 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.066%) Functional Safety
12 1 (0.066%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.066%) Kiali
12 1 (0.066%) Nessus
12 1 (0.066%) Nmap
Vendors
1 134 (8.83%) Microsoft
2 84 (5.54%) Dynatrace
3 82 (5.41%) Red Hat
4 78 (5.14%) IBM
5 62 (4.09%) Databricks
5 62 (4.09%) Informatica
6 46 (3.03%) Oracle
7 30 (1.98%) Cloudera
8 21 (1.38%) Google
9 16 (1.05%) Xamarin
10 13 (0.86%) Atlassian
10 13 (0.86%) BT
11 12 (0.79%) SAP
12 11 (0.73%) Micro Focus
12 11 (0.73%) ServiceNow
12 11 (0.73%) Splunk
13 10 (0.66%) Black Duck
13 10 (0.66%) VMware
14 9 (0.59%) TOWER Software
14 9 (0.59%) UiPath