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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 101 36
Rank change year-on-year +6 -65 -1
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 1,212 1,955 3,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.05% 2.61% 6.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% 3.17% 7.13%
Number of salaries quoted 619 1,143 1,416
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,125
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,738 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -8.70% +8.26%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,875 £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 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

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 31 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 31 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 +7 327 £60,000 +9.09% 182
North of England +5 314 £55,000 - 189
North West -15 226 £55,000 -4.35% 104
Midlands +9 177 £57,500 +15.00% 111
South West +52 158 £60,000 +9.09% 91
Scotland 0 139 £60,000 +20.00% 59
West Midlands -1 99 £65,000 +23.81% 55
East Midlands +59 78 £47,500 - 56
East of England +14 74 £57,000 +3.64% 48
Yorkshire +13 65 £52,723 -4.14% 61
North East +43 23 £59,002 -1.66% 25
Wales -4 22 £60,000 +20.00% 26
Northern Ireland +40 10 £55,000 -4.35% 14
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 - 2
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
1 185 (15.26%) Confluence
2 18 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 9 (0.74%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.66%) Apache
4 8 (0.66%) nginx
5 7 (0.58%) CMS
6 6 (0.50%) Appian
6 6 (0.50%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.41%) IIS
7 5 (0.41%) JBoss
8 4 (0.33%) SAS
9 3 (0.25%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.17%) CICS
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.17%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.083%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.083%) Mendix
11 1 (0.083%) Totara
Applications
1 6 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.33%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.083%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (0.25%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.083%) Magento
3 1 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.083%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 478 (39.44%) Azure
2 429 (35.40%) AWS
3 251 (20.71%) GCP
4 93 (7.67%) Azure DevOps
5 64 (5.28%) Serverless
6 52 (4.29%) GitHub
7 49 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
8 40 (3.30%) SaaS
9 28 (2.31%) PaaS
10 27 (2.23%) Amazon S3
11 21 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (1.65%) Power Platform
13 19 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
14 17 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (1.32%) npm
16 14 (1.16%) OpenShift
16 14 (1.16%) Power Automate
17 12 (0.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 11 (0.91%) Amazon SQS
18 11 (0.91%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 70 (5.78%) TCP/IP
2 65 (5.36%) VPN
3 20 (1.65%) 5G
3 20 (1.65%) SD-WAN
3 20 (1.65%) WAN
4 11 (0.91%) Internet
5 9 (0.74%) Network Security
6 7 (0.58%) BGP
6 7 (0.58%) DNS
7 6 (0.50%) Firewall
7 6 (0.50%) OSPF
7 6 (0.50%) SAN
8 5 (0.41%) Bluetooth
8 5 (0.41%) Multicast
8 5 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.33%) EIGRP
10 3 (0.25%) Broadband
11 2 (0.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 2 (0.17%) FTP
11 2 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 294 (24.26%) SQL Server
2 45 (3.71%) NoSQL
3 39 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (3.14%) DynamoDB
5 35 (2.89%) MongoDB
6 30 (2.48%) MySQL
7 21 (1.73%) Relational Database
8 20 (1.65%) Big Data
9 13 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (1.07%) Power BI
10 11 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (0.83%) Cloud Spanner
12 8 (0.66%) DB2
13 7 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.58%) Oracle Database
14 5 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
15 3 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (0.25%) Couchbase
15 3 (0.25%) Oracle Database 11g
15 3 (0.25%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 374 (30.86%) JIRA
2 368 (30.36%) Selenium
3 351 (28.96%) Cucumber
4 281 (23.18%) Maven
4 281 (23.18%) SonarQube
5 277 (22.85%) GitLab
6 271 (22.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 256 (21.12%) Bitbucket
8 141 (11.63%) Git
9 96 (7.92%) Jenkins
10 70 (5.78%) Robot Framework
11 49 (4.04%) Postman
12 46 (3.80%) Cypress.io
13 32 (2.64%) JUnit
14 22 (1.82%) Appium
15 21 (1.73%) eggPlant
15 21 (1.73%) Visual Studio
16 19 (1.57%) SpecFlow
17 18 (1.49%) JMeter
17 18 (1.49%) webpack
General
1 465 (38.37%) Finance
2 370 (30.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 350 (28.88%) Banking
4 300 (24.75%) Social Skills
5 108 (8.91%) Retail
6 91 (7.51%) Investment Banking
7 90 (7.43%) Corporate Banking
8 79 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
9 65 (5.36%) Telecoms
10 48 (3.96%) Law
11 46 (3.80%) Public Sector
12 36 (2.97%) Electronics
13 35 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (1.90%) Aerospace
15 22 (1.82%) Manufacturing
16 18 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
17 17 (1.40%) Games
18 14 (1.16%) Marketing
19 12 (0.99%) Legal
20 10 (0.83%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 408 (33.66%) Software Engineer
2 285 (23.51%) Senior
3 171 (14.11%) Lead
4 168 (13.86%) Test Engineer
5 135 (11.14%) Developer
6 84 (6.93%) Test Automation Engineer
7 78 (6.44%) Senior Software Engineer
8 69 (5.69%) Analyst
9 65 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
9 65 (5.36%) Senior Developer
10 64 (5.28%) Senior Test Engineer
11 62 (5.12%) Software Test Engineer
12 55 (4.54%) Senior Software Test Engineer
12 55 (4.54%) Test Analyst
13 48 (3.96%) Software Developer
14 41 (3.38%) Software Team Leader
14 41 (3.38%) Team Leader
15 37 (3.05%) Java Engineer
16 36 (2.97%) QA Engineer
17 34 (2.81%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 351 (28.96%) React
2 331 (27.31%) Spring Boot
3 306 (25.25%) Spring
4 305 (25.17%) HTML
5 303 (25.00%) CSS
6 287 (23.68%) Kafka
7 254 (20.96%) JPA
7 254 (20.96%) Redux
8 172 (14.19%) Hibernate
9 160 (13.20%) RESTful
10 144 (11.88%) REST
11 110 (9.08%) Jest
12 101 (8.33%) CSS3
13 100 (8.25%) HTML5
14 94 (7.76%) Sass
15 84 (6.93%) .NET
16 64 (5.28%) Node.js
17 55 (4.54%) Playwright
18 34 (2.81%) AngularJS
19 32 (2.64%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 299 (24.67%) Product Ownership
2 257 (21.20%) Enterprise Software
3 64 (5.28%) Linux Command Line
4 45 (3.71%) Public Cloud
5 38 (3.14%) e-Learning
6 35 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 35 (2.89%) Mobile App
7 32 (2.64%) Cloud Native
8 22 (1.82%) Algorithms
8 22 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 20 (1.65%) Operational Technology
9 20 (1.65%) SCADA
9 20 (1.65%) Self-Driving Car
10 19 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.49%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
12 17 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 17 (1.40%) Replication
12 17 (1.40%) Satnav
12 17 (1.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 133 (10.97%) Linux
2 106 (8.75%) Windows
3 27 (2.23%) Apple iOS
4 23 (1.90%) Android
5 16 (1.32%) Unix
6 7 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.41%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.083%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 731 (60.31%) Agile
2 559 (46.12%) DevOps
3 533 (43.98%) CI/CD
4 499 (41.17%) Software Engineering
5 397 (32.76%) Microservices
6 383 (31.60%) Containerisation
7 338 (27.89%) SDLC
8 337 (27.81%) Mentoring
9 333 (27.48%) Full-Stack Development
10 278 (22.94%) Front End Development
11 264 (21.78%) Software Testing
11 264 (21.78%) TDD
12 259 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
13 257 (21.20%) Performance Optimisation
14 205 (16.91%) Clean Code
15 204 (16.83%) Continuous Improvement
16 196 (16.17%) Computer Science
17 176 (14.52%) User Experience
18 140 (11.55%) Scrum
19 139 (11.47%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 490 (40.43%) Java
2 486 (40.10%) JavaScript
3 365 (30.12%) SQL
4 256 (21.12%) Python
5 190 (15.68%) TypeScript
6 136 (11.22%) C#
7 89 (7.34%) PowerShell
8 73 (6.02%) C++
9 71 (5.86%) Bash
10 60 (4.95%) Rust
11 40 (3.30%) C
12 31 (2.56%) PHP
13 17 (1.40%) Go
14 14 (1.16%) Ada
15 10 (0.83%) Groovy
15 10 (0.83%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.74%) MATLAB
17 8 (0.66%) Scala
18 7 (0.58%) Embedded C
19 6 (0.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 291 (24.01%) Degree
2 103 (8.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 63 (5.20%) ISTQB
4 50 (4.13%) Security Cleared
5 47 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (1.98%) SC Cleared
7 21 (1.73%) DV Cleared
7 21 (1.73%) HND
8 18 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 16 (1.32%) HNC
10 14 (1.16%) Chartered Engineer
11 12 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 8 (0.66%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.41%) ACCA
13 5 (0.41%) CIMA
14 3 (0.25%) CCNP
14 3 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.25%) ISEB
14 3 (0.25%) OCP
14 3 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 434 (35.81%) QA
2 106 (8.75%) Accessibility
3 50 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 21 (1.73%) NCSC
5 16 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.24%) NIST
7 12 (0.99%) PMO
8 5 (0.41%) GDPR
9 4 (0.33%) Basel II
9 4 (0.33%) Basel III
9 4 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
9 4 (0.33%) IFRS
9 4 (0.33%) IFRS 9
9 4 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.25%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.25%) PMBOK
10 3 (0.25%) WCAG
11 2 (0.17%) GxP
11 2 (0.17%) SEPA
12 1 (0.083%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 380 (31.35%) Docker
2 11 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.58%) Firmware
4 6 (0.50%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.33%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.17%) HDFS
9 1 (0.083%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.083%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.083%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 381 (31.44%) Kubernetes
2 85 (7.01%) Terraform
3 37 (3.05%) Ansible
4 12 (0.99%) Istio
5 10 (0.83%) Grafana
6 6 (0.50%) Packer
6 6 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.41%) Kustomize
8 4 (0.33%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.25%) Argo
10 2 (0.17%) Iperf
10 2 (0.17%) Puppet
10 2 (0.17%) Rancher
10 2 (0.17%) SCCM
10 2 (0.17%) SCOM
11 1 (0.083%) CA Service Virtualization
11 1 (0.083%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.083%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.083%) vRealize
Vendors
1 246 (20.30%) Solace
2 81 (6.68%) Microsoft
3 50 (4.13%) IBM
4 39 (3.22%) Red Hat
5 32 (2.64%) Oracle
6 22 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.73%) Keysight
7 21 (1.73%) VMware
8 19 (1.57%) Google
9 12 (0.99%) Cisco
9 12 (0.99%) Databricks
10 11 (0.91%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.58%) UiPath
12 6 (0.50%) F5
13 5 (0.41%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.41%) BiZZdesign
13 5 (0.41%) Black Duck
14 4 (0.33%) Dynatrace
14 4 (0.33%) Splunk
14 4 (0.33%) Tealium