QA Automation Jobs

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring QA Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA Automation over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 694 833 710
Rank change year-on-year +139 -123 +68
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 36 66 267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.066% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.078% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 29 59 193
10th Percentile £44,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £74,000 £74,000 £72,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

QA 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,380 85,029 95,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.83% 85.31% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,622 59,821 55,996
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,079 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,375 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,810 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.62% -9.09% +4.76%

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 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA Automation in the UK

QA Automation
Top 10 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 17 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
England +118 30 £57,500 - 43
Work from Home +116 20 £60,000 +4.35% 28
UK excluding London +157 16 £55,000 +4.76% 29
London +103 15 £57,500 -4.17% 21
East Midlands - 7 £57,500 - 1
Midlands - 7 £57,500 - 2
South West +108 4 £62,500 +4.17% 2
South East +75 3 £47,500 - 5
East of England +47 1 £55,000 +44.74% 6
Wales +41 1 - - 4

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 (2.78%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) AWS
3 7 (19.44%) BrowserStack
4 6 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (16.67%) Sauce Labs
5 5 (13.89%) SaaS
6 3 (8.33%) GCP
6 3 (8.33%) GitHub
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.78%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.78%) MinIO
8 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
1 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (58.33%) Selenium
2 11 (30.56%) Appium
3 7 (19.44%) Postman
4 6 (16.67%) Cypress.io
4 6 (16.67%) Git
4 6 (16.67%) JIRA
4 6 (16.67%) JUnit
4 6 (16.67%) SpecFlow
4 6 (16.67%) TestNG
5 5 (13.89%) Cucumber
6 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
7 3 (8.33%) JMeter
7 3 (8.33%) REST Assured
7 3 (8.33%) WebDriver
8 2 (5.56%) Maven
9 1 (2.78%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (2.78%) LoadRunner
9 1 (2.78%) NeoLoad
9 1 (2.78%) SoapUI
9 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Legal
4 3 (8.33%) Games
4 3 (8.33%) Health Technology
4 3 (8.33%) iGaming
4 3 (8.33%) Law
4 3 (8.33%) Publishing
5 1 (2.78%) Billing
5 1 (2.78%) Finance
5 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.78%) Retail
5 1 (2.78%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 21 (58.33%) QA Engineer
2 15 (41.67%) QA Automation Engineer
3 12 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Automation Tester
4 6 (16.67%) Lead
4 6 (16.67%) QA Test Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Tester
5 5 (13.89%) Senior
6 4 (11.11%) Python Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) QA Automation Tester
6 4 (11.11%) QA Tester
7 3 (8.33%) Architect
7 3 (8.33%) QA Leader
7 3 (8.33%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Software QA Tester
7 3 (8.33%) Software Tester
7 3 (8.33%) Technical Architect
8 2 (5.56%) Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) REST
2 7 (19.44%) Playwright
3 5 (13.89%) .NET
3 5 (13.89%) pytest
4 3 (8.33%) CSS
4 3 (8.33%) HTML
4 3 (8.33%) JSON
4 3 (8.33%) Swagger
5 2 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (5.56%) Blazor
5 2 (5.56%) gRPC
5 2 (5.56%) SOAP
5 2 (5.56%) WPF
6 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.78%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.78%) Node.js
6 1 (2.78%) OpenCV
6 1 (2.78%) React
6 1 (2.78%) WebSockets
6 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.89%) Mobile App
3 3 (8.33%) Client/Server
3 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.33%) Mobile Games
3 3 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 3 (8.33%) Sports Betting
4 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Windows
2 4 (11.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 19 (52.78%) Agile
3 18 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (33.33%) Test Scripting
5 8 (22.22%) Manual Testing
5 8 (22.22%) SDLC
5 8 (22.22%) Test Strategy
6 7 (19.44%) DevOps
7 6 (16.67%) API Testing
7 6 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (16.67%) Performance Testing
7 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (16.67%) Security Testing
8 5 (13.89%) Software Testing
9 4 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (11.11%) BDD
9 4 (11.11%) E-Commerce
9 4 (11.11%) OOP
9 4 (11.11%) Test Management
9 4 (11.11%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) C#
2 10 (27.78%) Python
3 9 (25.00%) Java
4 7 (19.44%) TypeScript
5 6 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 4 (11.11%) SQL
7 1 (2.78%) Go
7 1 (2.78%) Groovy
7 1 (2.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Degree
1 3 (8.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.78%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Argo
2 2 (5.56%) Kustomize
2 2 (5.56%) Terraform
3 1 (2.78%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Google