Automation QA Tester
UK

The median Automation QA Tester salary in the UK is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 893 947 1139
Rank change year-on-year +54 +192 -235
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Automation Tester 5 33 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.033% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.036% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 5 29 33
10th Percentile - £37,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +13.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile £120,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile - £72,000 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -22.73% +15.79% +11.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

QA Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured QA Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Tester in the UK

QA Automation Tester
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Automation Tester.

Salary trend for QA Automation Tester in the UK

QA Automation Tester
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation Tester over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation Tester in the UK

QA Automation Tester
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation Tester within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +70 5 £42,500 -32.00% 2
Work from Home +45 4 £81,250 +30.00% 3
London +105 3 £120,000 +92.00% 1
North of England +48 2 £42,500 -5.56%
North West +3 2 £42,500 -5.56%
UK excluding London -27 2 £42,500 -22.73% 1

QA Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, QA Automation Tester job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring QA Automation Tester in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) QA
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) SpecFlow
3 3 (60.00%) Selenium
3 3 (60.00%) C#
3 3 (60.00%) JMeter
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) BDD
4 2 (40.00%) Playwright
4 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (40.00%) Front Office
4 2 (40.00%) Electronic Trading
4 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
4 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
4 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
4 2 (40.00%) SaaS
4 2 (40.00%) User Stories
4 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
4 2 (40.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) Databricks
5 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (20.00%) PySpark

QA Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JMeter
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
1 3 (60.00%) SpecFlow
2 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) Postman
3 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Front Office
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (40.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) jQuery
2 1 (20.00%) PySpark
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Swagger
2 1 (20.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) BDD
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Electronic Trading
4 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (40.00%) User Stories
5 1 (20.00%) API Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) ETL
5 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
5 1 (20.00%) System Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Usability Testing
5 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle