Test Automation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Automated Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 34 36
Rank change year-on-year -63 +2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 1,966 4,252 5,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.79% 6.93% 7.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 7.25% 7.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,159 1,571 2,884
10th Percentile £36,000 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +8.26% +6.22%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,056 £77,500
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 is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,360 58,686 66,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 95.63% 94.02%
Number of salaries quoted 41,074 30,149 41,547
10th Percentile £27,041 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +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 4 May 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 4 May 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
South East -57 502 £55,000 -6.78% 101
Scotland -30 422 £50,000 -16.67% 41
North of England -85 358 £55,000 -4.35% 117
Midlands -83 248 £50,000 -9.09% 79
South West -48 247 £55,000 +4.76% 70
North West -66 215 £55,000 -4.35% 74
West Midlands -61 186 £50,000 -11.47% 48
Yorkshire -73 108 £55,000 - 39
East of England -88 107 £51,250 -21.15% 75
Wales -21 72 £50,000 +19.05% 16
East Midlands -102 61 £47,500 -13.64% 31
North East -36 35 £60,000 +4.35% 4
Northern Ireland -21 11 £57,500 -6.12% 7
Channel Islands - 2 £115,000 -
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
1 107 (5.44%) Apache Spark
2 64 (3.26%) Confluence
3 26 (1.32%) Apache
4 22 (1.12%) SharePoint
5 15 (0.76%) Cloud Foundry
5 15 (0.76%) CMS
6 10 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.41%) IIS
7 8 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.31%) SAS
9 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.20%) TWiki
10 3 (0.15%) JBoss
10 3 (0.15%) WordPress
11 2 (0.10%) Mule
11 2 (0.10%) nginx
12 1 (0.051%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.051%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 34 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.20%) Doxygen
6 4 (0.20%) Simulink
7 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.10%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.051%) Mathematica
8 1 (0.051%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.051%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 30 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.46%) Magento
3 5 (0.25%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.10%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.051%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 492 (25.03%) AWS
2 441 (22.43%) Azure
3 161 (8.19%) SaaS
4 132 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
5 97 (4.93%) GitHub
6 78 (3.97%) GCP
7 60 (3.05%) Amazon S3
8 59 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
9 54 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
9 54 (2.75%) IBM Cloud
10 49 (2.49%) Serverless
11 48 (2.44%) OCI
11 48 (2.44%) Route 53
12 47 (2.39%) Amazon ECR
13 38 (1.93%) Power Automate
14 33 (1.68%) BlazeMeter
15 32 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
16 31 (1.58%) Power Platform
17 25 (1.27%) IaaS
17 25 (1.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (3.46%) Kerberos
2 59 (3.00%) 5G
3 41 (2.09%) Wireless
4 39 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
5 34 (1.73%) SD-WAN
5 34 (1.73%) WAN
6 28 (1.42%) Bluetooth
7 24 (1.22%) HTTP
8 23 (1.17%) TCP/IP
9 22 (1.12%) GSM
9 22 (1.12%) ISDN
9 22 (1.12%) LTE
9 22 (1.12%) PSTN
9 22 (1.12%) UMTS
10 21 (1.07%) Internet
11 18 (0.92%) DSL
11 18 (0.92%) MQTT
12 17 (0.86%) Network Security
13 16 (0.81%) DNS
14 14 (0.71%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (9.16%) NoSQL
2 128 (6.51%) SQL Server
3 86 (4.37%) Apache Hive
3 86 (4.37%) HBase
4 81 (4.12%) MySQL
5 78 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
6 77 (3.92%) MongoDB
7 70 (3.56%) Relational Database
8 65 (3.31%) Big Data
8 65 (3.31%) Metadata
9 57 (2.90%) Hadoop
10 55 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
11 31 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
12 30 (1.53%) Data Lake
13 28 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
14 24 (1.22%) Tableau
15 22 (1.12%) DB2
16 20 (1.02%) DynamoDB
17 14 (0.71%) Power BI
18 11 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 430 (21.87%) Git
2 344 (17.50%) Jenkins
3 286 (14.55%) Selenium
4 189 (9.61%) JIRA
5 135 (6.87%) Cucumber
6 117 (5.95%) Bitbucket
7 109 (5.54%) Cypress.io
8 98 (4.98%) JMeter
9 93 (4.73%) Bitbucket Server
10 87 (4.43%) Postman
11 70 (3.56%) Visual Studio
12 68 (3.46%) Artifactory
13 60 (3.05%) Appium
14 46 (2.34%) LabVIEW
15 45 (2.29%) WebDriver
16 43 (2.19%) JUnit
16 43 (2.19%) Team Foundation Server
17 40 (2.03%) GitLab
18 39 (1.98%) TeamCity
19 37 (1.88%) Jasmine
General
1 539 (27.42%) Finance
2 453 (23.04%) Social Skills
3 415 (21.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 331 (16.84%) Law
5 208 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
6 189 (9.61%) Marketing
7 144 (7.32%) Public Sector
8 120 (6.10%) Banking
9 94 (4.78%) Legal
10 85 (4.32%) Electronics
11 79 (4.02%) Retail
12 60 (3.05%) Aerospace
13 56 (2.85%) Investment Banking
14 55 (2.80%) Automotive
15 52 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
16 42 (2.14%) Manufacturing
17 41 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
18 40 (2.03%) Games
19 39 (1.98%) Telecoms
20 38 (1.93%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 472 (24.01%) Developer
2 445 (22.63%) Software Engineer
3 329 (16.73%) Senior
4 271 (13.78%) Lead
5 163 (8.29%) Test Engineer
6 154 (7.83%) Tester
7 122 (6.21%) Senior Software Engineer
8 114 (5.80%) QA Engineer
9 110 (5.60%) Java Engineer
10 98 (4.98%) Java Software Engineer
11 93 (4.73%) Lead Software Engineer
11 93 (4.73%) Software Developer
12 91 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
13 88 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
14 78 (3.97%) Senior Developer
15 77 (3.92%) Analyst
16 75 (3.81%) AWS Software Engineer
17 63 (3.20%) Automation Tester
18 62 (3.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 60 (3.05%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 267 (13.58%) .NET
2 208 (10.58%) RESTful
3 178 (9.05%) React
4 159 (8.09%) HTML
5 150 (7.63%) CSS
6 143 (7.27%) JSON
7 137 (6.97%) Web Services
8 117 (5.95%) REST
8 117 (5.95%) XML
9 109 (5.54%) Spring Boot
10 105 (5.34%) AngularJS
11 101 (5.14%) Spring
12 86 (4.37%) Node.js
13 82 (4.17%) OpenID
14 69 (3.51%) .NET Core
15 68 (3.46%) ASP.NET
15 68 (3.46%) LDAP
15 68 (3.46%) SAML
16 65 (3.31%) JSON-LD
17 56 (2.85%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 146 (7.43%) Management Information System
2 132 (6.71%) Algorithms
3 113 (5.75%) Product Ownership
4 99 (5.04%) Self-Motivation
5 86 (4.37%) Public Cloud
6 77 (3.92%) Enterprise Cloud
7 73 (3.71%) Mobile App
8 68 (3.46%) Cloud Native
9 65 (3.31%) Reference Data
10 54 (2.75%) e-Learning
11 49 (2.49%) Blockchain
11 49 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
12 43 (2.19%) Satnav
13 37 (1.88%) IoT
14 34 (1.73%) Private Cloud
15 33 (1.68%) Market Risk
16 29 (1.48%) Onboarding
17 28 (1.42%) Embedded Systems
18 26 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
18 26 (1.32%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 211 (10.73%) Linux
2 150 (7.63%) Windows
3 122 (6.21%) Unix
4 36 (1.83%) Apple iOS
5 34 (1.73%) Android
6 26 (1.32%) Windows Server
7 21 (1.07%) Mac OS
8 18 (0.92%) Embedded Linux
9 12 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (0.56%) FreeRTOS
10 11 (0.56%) Ubuntu
11 9 (0.46%) Debian
12 7 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.20%) VMS
13 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.15%) CentOS
15 2 (0.10%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.10%) Windows 10
16 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,168 (59.41%) Agile
2 641 (32.60%) Software Engineering
3 590 (30.01%) CI/CD
4 540 (27.47%) DevOps
5 434 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
6 423 (21.52%) Software Testing
7 399 (20.30%) SDLC
8 339 (17.24%) Mentoring
9 316 (16.07%) TDD
10 269 (13.68%) Continuous Integration
11 255 (12.97%) Artificial Intelligence
12 254 (12.92%) Coaching
13 245 (12.46%) Microservices
14 244 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 236 (12.00%) Scrum
16 224 (11.39%) Operational Stability
17 211 (10.73%) Community of Practice
18 203 (10.33%) Test Scripting
19 192 (9.77%) Computer Science
20 183 (9.31%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 520 (26.45%) SQL
2 518 (26.35%) Java
3 438 (22.28%) Python
4 392 (19.94%) JavaScript
5 390 (19.84%) C#
6 145 (7.38%) C
7 130 (6.61%) TypeScript
8 124 (6.31%) PL/SQL
9 119 (6.05%) C++
10 108 (5.49%) Go
11 65 (3.31%) Prolog
11 65 (3.31%) SPARQL
12 63 (3.20%) PHP
13 45 (2.29%) PowerShell
14 42 (2.14%) Bash
15 40 (2.03%) Kotlin
16 38 (1.93%) T-SQL
17 37 (1.88%) MATLAB
18 27 (1.37%) Ruby
19 24 (1.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 366 (18.62%) Degree
2 208 (10.58%) Security Cleared
3 133 (6.77%) SC Cleared
4 111 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 83 (4.22%) ISTQB
6 52 (2.64%) DV Cleared
7 34 (1.73%) ISEB
8 32 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.32%) DBS Check
10 22 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (0.71%) HND
11 14 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 13 (0.66%) Azure Certification
13 9 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
15 6 (0.31%) AWS Certification
16 5 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
17 4 (0.20%) Chartered Engineer
17 4 (0.20%) CIPD
17 4 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 485 (24.67%) QA
2 38 (1.93%) Accessibility
3 31 (1.58%) GDPR
4 26 (1.32%) Software Quality Assurance
5 21 (1.07%) ISO 9001
5 21 (1.07%) SLA
6 20 (1.02%) PMO
7 15 (0.76%) WAI
8 10 (0.51%) HIPAA
9 9 (0.46%) NCSC
10 8 (0.41%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.41%) MISRA
10 8 (0.41%) PSD2
11 7 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.36%) JTAG
12 4 (0.20%) DICOM
12 4 (0.20%) HL7
12 4 (0.20%) ISO 13485
13 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 3 (0.15%) MISRA C
System Software
1 181 (9.21%) Docker
2 86 (4.37%) HDFS
3 81 (4.12%) Active Directory
4 37 (1.88%) Firmware
5 26 (1.32%) Embedded Firmware
6 20 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
8 7 (0.36%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.20%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.15%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.051%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 230 (11.70%) Terraform
2 187 (9.51%) Kubernetes
3 78 (3.97%) Ansible
4 52 (2.64%) Prometheus
5 23 (1.17%) Progress Chef
6 12 (0.61%) Grafana
6 12 (0.61%) Kibana
6 12 (0.61%) Puppet
7 7 (0.36%) MIIS
8 5 (0.25%) Argo
9 4 (0.20%) WMI
10 2 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.10%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.10%) Nagios
10 2 (0.10%) Packer
10 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.051%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.051%) Kiali
11 1 (0.051%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.051%) Podman
Vendors
1 206 (10.48%) Microsoft
2 116 (5.90%) Databricks
3 86 (4.37%) Informatica
4 66 (3.36%) Oracle
5 60 (3.05%) IBM
6 56 (2.85%) Cloudera
7 53 (2.70%) Dynatrace
7 53 (2.70%) Red Hat
8 49 (2.49%) Google
9 31 (1.58%) Xamarin
10 24 (1.22%) Alteryx
11 20 (1.02%) Sybase
12 18 (0.92%) Cognos
13 17 (0.86%) SAP
14 16 (0.81%) Splunk
15 15 (0.76%) VMware
16 14 (0.71%) Atlassian
17 12 (0.61%) YouTube
18 10 (0.51%) MuleSoft
18 10 (0.51%) Salesforce