Automated Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 79 42 39
Rank change year-on-year -37 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 1,995 7,909 8,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.77% 6.44% 6.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 6.72% 7.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,523 4,648 5,253
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,968 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £81,125 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year - +6.80% +8.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Test 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 49,863 117,613 122,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.11% 95.75% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 36,022 72,003 82,155
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,680 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +7.00% +4.17%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the UK

Test Automation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the UK

Test Automation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the UK

Test Automation
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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 -35 1,668 £65,000 +8.33% 861
UK excluding London -40 1,060 £55,000 - 651
Work from Home -39 871 £62,500 +4.17% 515
London -29 736 £75,000 +7.14% 349
South East -45 261 £57,500 -4.17% 190
South West +1 237 £55,000 +10.00% 63
North of England -51 205 £60,000 +14.29% 144
Midlands -24 165 £52,500 -7.05% 80
Scotland -41 122 £55,000 -8.33% 54
West Midlands -29 101 £52,500 -7.05% 55
Yorkshire -28 98 £65,000 +23.81% 50
North West -38 91 £55,000 - 80
East Midlands -11 63 £58,750 +2.17% 25
Wales -21 52 £50,000 -5.21% 23
East of England -53 40 £45,000 -25.00% 93
North East +12 22 £60,000 +9.09% 16
Northern Ireland -22 5 £50,000 -14.89% 16
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 - 1

Test 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
1 104 (5.21%) Confluence
2 37 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.70%) IIS
6 10 (0.50%) Apache
7 7 (0.35%) CMS
7 7 (0.35%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.25%) Mule
9 5 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
10 4 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
10 4 (0.20%) Drupal
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.15%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.15%) SAS
12 2 (0.10%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.10%) JBoss
12 2 (0.10%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 28 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.25%) Simulink
6 2 (0.10%) Campfire
7 1 (0.050%) CANalyzer
7 1 (0.050%) Sketch
7 1 (0.050%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.050%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 12 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (0.15%) Endur
4 2 (0.10%) Magento
4 2 (0.10%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.10%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.10%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.050%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.050%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.050%) Odoo
5 1 (0.050%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.050%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.050%) Shopify
5 1 (0.050%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.050%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 681 (34.14%) Azure
2 459 (23.01%) AWS
3 304 (15.24%) Azure DevOps
4 181 (9.07%) GitHub
5 176 (8.82%) SaaS
6 163 (8.17%) GCP
7 113 (5.66%) Serverless
8 73 (3.66%) Power Platform
9 53 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (2.11%) PaaS
11 40 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
11 40 (2.01%) Azure Service Bus
12 39 (1.95%) Azure Functions
13 37 (1.85%) OpenShift
14 36 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
15 35 (1.75%) Amazon S3
16 34 (1.70%) Azure API Management
17 32 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
17 32 (1.60%) npm
18 30 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.56%) WAN
2 44 (2.21%) 5G
3 43 (2.16%) HTTP
4 41 (2.06%) SD-WAN
5 28 (1.40%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.20%) Firewall
7 20 (1.00%) Network Security
8 18 (0.90%) Internet
9 17 (0.85%) DNS
10 15 (0.75%) LAN
11 14 (0.70%) AMQP
12 13 (0.65%) MPLS
12 13 (0.65%) VoIP
13 11 (0.55%) VPN
14 10 (0.50%) BGP
15 9 (0.45%) SNMP
16 8 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
17 7 (0.35%) Bluetooth
18 6 (0.30%) SMTP
18 6 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (9.42%) SQL Server
2 112 (5.61%) NoSQL
3 100 (5.01%) MongoDB
4 64 (3.21%) Relational Database
5 62 (3.11%) Power BI
6 60 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
7 52 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
8 46 (2.31%) MySQL
9 43 (2.16%) Hadoop
10 37 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (1.75%) Tableau
12 30 (1.50%) Metadata
12 30 (1.50%) Oracle Database
13 24 (1.20%) Big Data
14 20 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
14 20 (1.00%) Oracle Database 10g
14 20 (1.00%) Oracle Database 11g
14 20 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
16 18 (0.90%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 394 (19.75%) Selenium
2 295 (14.79%) Git
3 263 (13.18%) Jenkins
4 245 (12.28%) JIRA
5 194 (9.72%) Cucumber
6 146 (7.32%) Postman
7 104 (5.21%) Cypress.io
8 88 (4.41%) GitLab
9 86 (4.31%) JMeter
10 82 (4.11%) Maven
11 71 (3.56%) SpecFlow
12 70 (3.51%) SoapUI
13 68 (3.41%) JUnit
13 68 (3.41%) WebDriver
14 60 (3.01%) REST Assured
15 58 (2.91%) Visual Studio
16 56 (2.81%) Team Foundation Server
17 50 (2.51%) Robot Framework
18 43 (2.16%) Appium
19 38 (1.90%) SonarQube
General
1 528 (26.47%) Finance
2 471 (23.61%) Social Skills
3 206 (10.33%) Banking
4 203 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
5 166 (8.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 119 (5.96%) Retail
7 85 (4.26%) Public Sector
8 60 (3.01%) Marketing
9 53 (2.66%) Aerospace
10 52 (2.61%) Law
11 50 (2.51%) Telecoms
12 44 (2.21%) Investment Banking
13 43 (2.16%) Legal
14 41 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
15 37 (1.85%) Electronics
15 37 (1.85%) Front Office
16 30 (1.50%) Manufacturing
17 27 (1.35%) Financial Institution
17 27 (1.35%) Games
18 26 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 415 (20.80%) Senior
2 388 (19.45%) Developer
3 317 (15.89%) Lead
4 246 (12.33%) Software Engineer
5 188 (9.42%) Tester
6 155 (7.77%) Analyst
7 148 (7.42%) QA Engineer
7 148 (7.42%) Test Engineer
8 124 (6.22%) DevOps Engineer
9 110 (5.51%) Automation Tester
10 106 (5.31%) Senior Developer
11 87 (4.36%) Senior Software Engineer
12 81 (4.06%) Test Automation Engineer
13 74 (3.71%) Test Analyst
14 72 (3.61%) Test Leader
15 70 (3.51%) Automation Engineer
16 66 (3.31%) Lead Developer
17 65 (3.26%) AWS Engineer
17 65 (3.26%) Software Developer
18 63 (3.16%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 330 (16.54%) .NET
2 221 (11.08%) React
3 176 (8.82%) REST
4 166 (8.32%) RESTful
5 155 (7.77%) AngularJS
6 149 (7.47%) HTML
7 123 (6.17%) Web Services
8 113 (5.66%) Node.js
9 105 (5.26%) CSS
10 104 (5.21%) JSON
11 99 (4.96%) Spring
12 95 (4.76%) Spring Boot
13 93 (4.66%) .NET Core
13 93 (4.66%) Kafka
14 90 (4.51%) .NET Framework
15 75 (3.76%) XML
16 72 (3.61%) ASP.NET
16 72 (3.61%) Vue
17 71 (3.56%) Gherkin
18 65 (3.26%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 144 (7.22%) Product Ownership
2 73 (3.66%) Cloud Native
3 63 (3.16%) Mobile App
4 62 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
5 60 (3.01%) Public Cloud
6 44 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
7 37 (1.85%) Client/Server
8 36 (1.80%) Management Information System
9 31 (1.55%) Cyberattack
10 29 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
10 29 (1.45%) Virtual Team
11 27 (1.35%) GNSS
12 25 (1.25%) Algorithms
13 23 (1.15%) Low-Code
14 22 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 21 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (0.75%) Distributed Applications
16 15 (0.75%) Fixed Income
17 14 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
17 14 (0.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 194 (9.72%) Linux
2 129 (6.47%) Windows
3 70 (3.51%) Unix
4 42 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 34 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 30 (1.50%) Android
6 30 (1.50%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.65%) Mac OS
8 11 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.45%) Windows 10
10 8 (0.40%) Debian
11 6 (0.30%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
14 2 (0.10%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,120 (56.14%) Agile
2 753 (37.74%) DevOps
3 611 (30.63%) CI/CD
4 432 (21.65%) Software Engineering
5 365 (18.30%) Software Testing
6 353 (17.69%) Scrum
7 344 (17.24%) Mentoring
8 340 (17.04%) Continuous Integration
9 320 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
10 315 (15.79%) TDD
11 268 (13.43%) BDD
12 262 (13.13%) SDLC
13 234 (11.73%) Microservices
14 217 (10.88%) Test Strategy
15 192 (9.62%) Test Scripting
16 171 (8.57%) Manual Testing
17 167 (8.37%) Computer Science
18 151 (7.57%) Full Stack Development
19 146 (7.32%) API Testing
20 145 (7.27%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 554 (27.77%) Java
2 502 (25.16%) C#
3 489 (24.51%) Python
4 476 (23.86%) SQL
5 470 (23.56%) JavaScript
6 169 (8.47%) TypeScript
7 115 (5.76%) PowerShell
8 104 (5.21%) C++
9 73 (3.66%) Bash
10 63 (3.16%) C
11 59 (2.96%) Go
12 58 (2.91%) PHP
13 52 (2.61%) Perl
14 43 (2.16%) T-SQL
15 36 (1.80%) Groovy
16 32 (1.60%) VBScript
17 30 (1.50%) Ruby
18 25 (1.25%) Kotlin
19 19 (0.95%) Rust
20 18 (0.90%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 264 (13.23%) Degree
2 242 (12.13%) Security Cleared
3 134 (6.72%) ISTQB
3 134 (6.72%) SC Cleared
4 92 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (3.41%) DV Cleared
6 57 (2.86%) ISEB
7 36 (1.80%) Azure Certification
8 30 (1.50%) AWS Certification
8 30 (1.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 22 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 17 (0.85%) DBS Check
12 15 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.65%) CCNA
14 12 (0.60%) OCP
14 12 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
15 10 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 9 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 525 (26.32%) QA
2 80 (4.01%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.30%) PMO
4 24 (1.20%) Software Quality Assurance
5 23 (1.15%) Data Quality
6 12 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.60%) WCAG
7 9 (0.45%) SLA
8 8 (0.40%) MISRA
9 5 (0.25%) GDPR
10 4 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.20%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.20%) WAI
11 3 (0.15%) ISO 26262
12 2 (0.10%) IEC 61508
12 2 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 2 (0.10%) NCSC
12 2 (0.10%) NIST
12 2 (0.10%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.050%) JTAG
System Software
1 285 (14.29%) Docker
2 45 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (1.70%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.65%) Firmware
5 13 (0.65%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.55%) OpenSIPS
7 6 (0.30%) IAG
8 4 (0.20%) HDFS
8 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.20%) vSphere
9 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.050%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.050%) KVM
11 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.050%) QEMU
11 1 (0.050%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 281 (14.09%) Kubernetes
2 200 (10.03%) Terraform
3 85 (4.26%) Ansible
4 22 (1.10%) Puppet
4 22 (1.10%) Rancher
5 21 (1.05%) Grafana
5 21 (1.05%) HP Quality Center
6 18 (0.90%) Argo
6 18 (0.90%) Progress Chef
6 18 (0.90%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.75%) Packer
8 12 (0.60%) Istio
9 10 (0.50%) Kibana
10 9 (0.45%) Nagios
11 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (0.35%) Salt
13 6 (0.30%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.25%) Control-M
14 5 (0.25%) Nessus
14 5 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 206 (10.33%) Microsoft
2 101 (5.06%) Oracle
3 68 (3.41%) Google
4 51 (2.56%) VMware
5 45 (2.26%) SAP
6 35 (1.75%) HP
7 34 (1.70%) Salesforce
8 30 (1.50%) Atlassian
9 29 (1.45%) Splunk
10 25 (1.25%) Databricks
10 25 (1.25%) IBM
11 18 (0.90%) Dynatrace
12 17 (0.85%) Cisco
13 16 (0.80%) Alteryx
13 16 (0.80%) ServiceNow
14 15 (0.75%) New Relic
15 12 (0.60%) MKS
16 11 (0.55%) Calypso
17 10 (0.50%) Dell
18 9 (0.45%) AppDynamics