Senior Automation Tester Jobs

Senior Automation Tester
UK

The median Senior Automation Tester salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 871 962 1151
Rank change year-on-year +91 +189 -294
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Automation Tester 6 16 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.015% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.017% 0.049%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 42
10th Percentile - £44,375 £46,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +15.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £47,500 £76,563 £71,250
90th Percentile £55,000 £81,250 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £77,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -41.94% +47.62% +9.38%

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 93,240 95,005 150,022
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 66,901 59,761 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.21% +5.50% +5.26%

Senior Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Automation Tester in the UK

Senior Automation Tester
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Automation Tester in the UK

Senior Automation Tester
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Automation Tester over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Automation Tester in the UK

Senior Automation Tester
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Automation Tester within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +78 6 £45,000 -28.00% 1
UK excluding London -2 6 £45,000 -41.94%
Work from Home +84 3 £42,500 -39.29% 1
North of England +44 2 £42,500 -5.56%
South East +19 2 £60,000 -22.58%
North West +5 2 £42,500 -5.56%
West Midlands - 2 £45,000 -
Midlands - 2 £45,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Automation Tester in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) SpecFlow
2 4 (66.67%) QA
2 4 (66.67%) Selenium
2 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) User Stories
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) API Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Postman
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) JMeter
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
3 2 (33.33%) WebDriver

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium
1 4 (66.67%) SpecFlow
2 2 (33.33%) JMeter
2 2 (33.33%) Postman
2 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
2 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (33.33%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 4 (66.67%) User Stories
3 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (33.33%) API Testing
3 2 (33.33%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA