Automation QA Engineer
UK

The median Automation QA Engineer salary in the UK is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 870 837 952
Rank change year-on-year -33 +115 -237
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 38 161 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.16% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 36 139 199
10th Percentile £35,875 £41,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £37,188 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £64,375 £74,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%

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 91,989 97,583 147,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.61% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 66,379 61,119 85,881
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

QA Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Engineer in the UK

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for QA Automation Engineer in the UK

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation Engineer over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation Engineer in the UK

QA Automation Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 +12 33 £50,000 -9.09% 14
UK excluding London -1 27 £52,500 - 6
Work from Home +43 18 £57,500 - 9
London +62 10 £55,000 - 9
South East -11 7 £60,000 +14.29%
South West -6 6 £45,000 +38.46% 1
Scotland - 5 £52,500 -
North of England +53 3 £55,000 +22.22% 3
West Midlands +30 3 £40,000 -27.27%
East of England +29 3 £37,500 - 1
Midlands +12 3 £40,000 -27.27%
Yorkshire +100 2 £47,500 -9.52% 2
North West +11 1 £62,500 +38.89% 1

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, QA Automation Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) QA
2 35 (92.11%) Test Automation
3 29 (76.32%) Agile
4 26 (68.42%) QA Automation
5 20 (52.63%) Java
6 16 (42.11%) Cucumber
7 15 (39.47%) Selenium
8 13 (34.21%) Python
8 13 (34.21%) BDD
9 12 (31.58%) API Testing
10 11 (28.95%) AWS
10 11 (28.95%) Software Testing
11 10 (26.32%) Azure
11 10 (26.32%) Test Strategy
11 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (26.32%) Postman
12 9 (23.68%) SDLC
13 8 (21.05%) Spring
13 8 (21.05%) Test Scripting
13 8 (21.05%) Scrum
13 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
14 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
14 7 (18.42%) TDD
14 7 (18.42%) Spring Boot
14 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
15 6 (15.79%) Appium
15 6 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 6 (15.79%) JMeter
15 6 (15.79%) C#
15 6 (15.79%) Cypress.io

QA Automation Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) AWS
2 10 (26.32%) Azure
3 3 (7.89%) SaaS
4 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.63%) BrowserStack
4 1 (2.63%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Relational Database
1 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.63%) MySQL
3 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (42.11%) Cucumber
2 15 (39.47%) Selenium
3 10 (26.32%) Postman
4 6 (15.79%) Appium
4 6 (15.79%) Cypress.io
4 6 (15.79%) JMeter
5 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
5 5 (13.16%) JUnit
6 4 (10.53%) Mockito
7 3 (7.89%) REST Assured
7 3 (7.89%) SoapUI
8 2 (5.26%) JIRA
8 2 (5.26%) UI Automator
9 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.63%) Git
9 1 (2.63%) GoogleTest
9 1 (2.63%) SpecFlow
9 1 (2.63%) Spock
9 1 (2.63%) TestCafe
9 1 (2.63%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Automotive
4 4 (10.53%) Electronics
4 4 (10.53%) Games
4 4 (10.53%) Health Technology
5 3 (7.89%) Finance
5 3 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.26%) Banking
6 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) Spring
2 7 (18.42%) Spring Boot
3 4 (10.53%) Playwright
3 4 (10.53%) REST
3 4 (10.53%) Web Services
3 4 (10.53%) WireMock
4 2 (5.26%) React
5 1 (2.63%) .NET
5 1 (2.63%) HTML
5 1 (2.63%) HTML5
5 1 (2.63%) JSON
5 1 (2.63%) OpenCV
5 1 (2.63%) pytest
5 1 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.89%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (5.26%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Android
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.26%) Mac OS
2 2 (5.26%) Mac OS X
2 2 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (92.11%) Test Automation
2 29 (76.32%) Agile
3 26 (68.42%) QA Automation
4 13 (34.21%) BDD
5 12 (31.58%) API Testing
6 11 (28.95%) Software Testing
7 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (26.32%) Test Strategy
8 9 (23.68%) SDLC
9 8 (21.05%) Scrum
9 8 (21.05%) Test Scripting
10 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
10 7 (18.42%) TDD
11 6 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (13.16%) Manual Testing
12 5 (13.16%) Microservices
12 5 (13.16%) Unit Testing
12 5 (13.16%) User Experience
13 4 (10.53%) Integration Testing
13 4 (10.53%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (52.63%) Java
2 13 (34.21%) Python
3 6 (15.79%) C#
4 5 (13.16%) SQL
5 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.63%) C
6 1 (2.63%) C++
6 1 (2.63%) Go
6 1 (2.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (10.53%) ISO 9001
2 4 (10.53%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.53%) Terraform
3 1 (2.63%) Consul
3 1 (2.63%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) Oracle
2 1 (2.63%) Google
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.63%) Spotify