Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 819 710 784
Rank change year-on-year -109 +74 -58
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 72 303 441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.28% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.29% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 62 215 192
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,500 £42,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £70,250
90th Percentile £72,000 £76,800 £78,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

QA 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83,920 103,131 145,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.36% 95.65% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 59,805 60,258 83,543
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,456 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.51% +2.43% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.26% +3.81% +9.38%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in the UK

QA Automation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for QA Automation in the UK

QA Automation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation in the UK

QA Automation
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation within the UK over the 6 months to 16 April 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 -102 57 £57,500 +4.55% 15
UK excluding London -49 44 £55,000 - 7
Work from Home -33 38 £60,000 +4.35% 11
London -8 23 £55,000 +4.76% 10
South East +26 15 £50,000 -13.04% 1
Scotland - 12 £52,500 -
North of England +48 8 £51,250 +13.89% 3
South West -6 8 £60,000 +14.29%
North West +10 6 £52,500 +16.67% 2
Wales +2 1 £82,500 +32.00%
North East - 1 £55,000 -
Yorkshire - 1 £47,500 - 1

QA Automation
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 (1.39%) Apache
1 1 (1.39%) MQSeries
1 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (41.67%) Azure
2 22 (30.56%) AWS
3 12 (16.67%) SaaS
4 5 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (6.94%) Serverless
5 4 (5.56%) Azure Functions
5 4 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.17%) BrowserStack
7 2 (2.78%) GCP
7 2 (2.78%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.39%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.39%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.56%) NoSQL
1 4 (5.56%) Power BI
2 3 (4.17%) DynamoDB
2 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.78%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.78%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.78%) MySQL
3 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.39%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.39%) DocumentDB
4 1 (1.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (41.67%) Cypress.io
1 30 (41.67%) Selenium
2 19 (26.39%) Cucumber
3 18 (25.00%) Postman
4 11 (15.28%) Jenkins
5 9 (12.50%) JMeter
5 9 (12.50%) REST Assured
6 8 (11.11%) SpecFlow
7 7 (9.72%) Appium
7 7 (9.72%) Git
8 6 (8.33%) JIRA
9 5 (6.94%) JUnit
10 4 (5.56%) Mockito
10 4 (5.56%) SoapUI
11 3 (4.17%) Serenity BDD
12 2 (2.78%) NUnit
12 2 (2.78%) Subversion
12 2 (2.78%) Visual Studio
12 2 (2.78%) WebDriver
13 1 (1.39%) Maven
General
1 20 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.56%) Electronics
2 4 (5.56%) Finance
2 4 (5.56%) Games
2 4 (5.56%) Health Technology
3 3 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.39%) Front Office
4 1 (1.39%) Marketing
4 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.39%) Publishing
4 1 (1.39%) Tech for Good
4 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (56.94%) QA Engineer
2 24 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
3 19 (26.39%) Automation Engineer
4 15 (20.83%) Lead
5 13 (18.06%) QA Leader
6 7 (9.72%) Developer
7 6 (8.33%) Java Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Tester
9 4 (5.56%) Analyst
9 4 (5.56%) Automation Tester
9 4 (5.56%) Cloud Automation Engineer
9 4 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (5.56%) Python Engineer
9 4 (5.56%) Senior
10 3 (4.17%) QA Tester
11 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Developer
11 2 (2.78%) QA Analyst
11 2 (2.78%) Senior QA Engineer
11 2 (2.78%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (30.56%) Playwright
2 13 (18.06%) .NET
3 6 (8.33%) REST
4 5 (6.94%) Spring
4 5 (6.94%) Web Services
5 4 (5.56%) ASP.NET
5 4 (5.56%) CSS
5 4 (5.56%) React
5 4 (5.56%) Spring Boot
5 4 (5.56%) Swagger
5 4 (5.56%) WireMock
6 3 (4.17%) HTML
7 2 (2.78%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.78%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (2.78%) Blazor
7 2 (2.78%) Razor View Engine
8 1 (1.39%) Puppeteer
8 1 (1.39%) PySpark
8 1 (1.39%) pytest
8 1 (1.39%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 4 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.17%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.78%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.78%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.39%) Hackathon
5 1 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.17%) Android
1 3 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 44 (61.11%) Agile
3 27 (37.50%) BDD
4 26 (36.11%) API Testing
5 24 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 21 (29.17%) Software Testing
7 18 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 17 (23.61%) DevOps
9 14 (19.44%) Scrum
10 12 (16.67%) Test Scripting
11 11 (15.28%) Coaching
11 11 (15.28%) TDD
12 10 (13.89%) Mentoring
12 10 (13.89%) SDET
12 10 (13.89%) Test Strategy
13 9 (12.50%) Design Patterns
13 9 (12.50%) Regression Testing
13 9 (12.50%) SDLC
14 8 (11.11%) Microservices
14 8 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 26 (36.11%) Java
2 24 (33.33%) C#
3 18 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 16 (22.22%) SQL
5 14 (19.44%) Python
6 12 (16.67%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.78%) Scala
8 1 (1.39%) C
8 1 (1.39%) C++
8 1 (1.39%) Go
8 1 (1.39%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared
1 3 (4.17%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.78%) Degree
3 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.39%) ISEB
3 1 (1.39%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (5.56%) ISO 9001
2 4 (5.56%) Software Quality Assurance
3 2 (2.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (13.89%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (9.72%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.56%) Terraform
3 1 (1.39%) Consul
3 1 (1.39%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.39%) Atlassian
2 1 (1.39%) Databricks
2 1 (1.39%) Google
2 1 (1.39%) IBM
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle
2 1 (1.39%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.39%) Solace
2 1 (1.39%) Spotify
2 1 (1.39%) TIBCO
2 1 (1.39%) VMware