Test Automation Jobs

Automated Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 61 32
Rank change year-on-year -39 -29 +9
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 2,200 4,004 15,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.43% 4.96% 8.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 5.20% 8.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,362 2,461 6,102
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £71,991 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,399 £97,290 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Test 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 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the UK

Test Automation
Top 17 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 26 July 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 -58 1,744 £60,000 -7.69% 268
UK excluding London -38 1,517 £52,500 -8.70% 245
Work from Home -52 751 £57,500 -8.00% 163
London -69 555 £70,000 -6.67% 77
North of England -30 353 £57,500 - 33
South East -56 347 £55,000 -4.35% 64
Scotland -5 299 £50,000 -13.04% 23
North West +14 230 £57,500 - 22
South West -46 200 £60,000 +4.35% 46
Midlands -83 193 £52,500 -12.50% 39
West Midlands -45 150 £52,500 -12.50% 30
Yorkshire -33 105 £55,000 -8.33% 9
East of England -75 70 £47,500 -24.00% 25
Wales -20 46 £50,000 +4.17% 4
East Midlands -107 42 £48,500 -19.17% 9
North East -42 18 £65,465 +15.87% 2
Northern Ireland -12 9 £46,250 -11.90% 22

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 67 (3.05%) Confluence
2 65 (2.95%) Apache Spark
3 27 (1.23%) IIS
4 26 (1.18%) Apache
5 17 (0.77%) CMS
6 16 (0.73%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.68%) Cloud Foundry
8 11 (0.50%) Tuxedo
9 9 (0.41%) WordPress
10 7 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.32%) nginx
10 7 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.32%) SAS
11 5 (0.23%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.18%) JBoss
12 4 (0.18%) TWiki
12 4 (0.18%) WildFly
13 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.091%) Sitecore CMS
14 2 (0.091%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.091%) Fusion 360
5 2 (0.091%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.091%) Simulink
6 1 (0.045%) Doxygen
6 1 (0.045%) Mathematica
6 1 (0.045%) Notion
6 1 (0.045%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 18 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.27%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.18%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.14%) Endur
6 2 (0.091%) CiviCRM
6 2 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.091%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.091%) Findur
7 1 (0.045%) LabWindows
7 1 (0.045%) Magento
7 1 (0.045%) Postilion
7 1 (0.045%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.045%) SAP SM
7 1 (0.045%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 644 (29.27%) AWS
2 506 (23.00%) Azure
3 190 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
4 180 (8.18%) SaaS
5 156 (7.09%) GCP
6 142 (6.45%) GitHub
7 124 (5.64%) Amazon EKS
8 121 (5.50%) Amazon S3
9 105 (4.77%) OCI
10 92 (4.18%) Route 53
11 91 (4.14%) Amazon ECR
12 90 (4.09%) IBM Cloud
13 82 (3.73%) Serverless
14 66 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
15 65 (2.95%) PaaS
16 48 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
17 47 (2.14%) IaaS
18 41 (1.86%) Power Platform
19 36 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
19 36 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.41%) 5G
2 47 (2.14%) Kerberos
3 42 (1.91%) HTTP
4 41 (1.86%) WAN
5 40 (1.82%) SD-WAN
6 32 (1.45%) Wireless
7 26 (1.18%) DNS
7 26 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (0.82%) Internet
8 18 (0.82%) Network Security
9 17 (0.77%) MQTT
9 17 (0.77%) TCP/IP
10 16 (0.73%) RS-485
11 15 (0.68%) 4G
11 15 (0.68%) Bluetooth
12 13 (0.59%) 3G
13 11 (0.50%) Firewall
14 10 (0.45%) SMTP
15 8 (0.36%) Ethernet
15 8 (0.36%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (9.27%) NoSQL
2 167 (7.59%) SQL Server
3 106 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
4 97 (4.41%) MongoDB
5 90 (4.09%) Relational Database
6 85 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
7 73 (3.32%) MySQL
8 61 (2.77%) Apache Hive
9 60 (2.73%) HBase
10 51 (2.32%) Metadata
11 45 (2.05%) Big Data
12 37 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
13 36 (1.64%) DynamoDB
14 33 (1.50%) Hadoop
15 24 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
16 16 (0.73%) Power BI
17 13 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
17 13 (0.59%) DB2
17 13 (0.59%) RDBMS
17 13 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 400 (18.18%) Git
2 334 (15.18%) Selenium
3 247 (11.23%) Jenkins
4 199 (9.05%) JIRA
5 122 (5.55%) Cypress.io
6 121 (5.50%) JMeter
7 114 (5.18%) Cucumber
8 113 (5.14%) Postman
9 98 (4.45%) Visual Studio
10 93 (4.23%) Bitbucket
11 72 (3.27%) GitLab
12 69 (3.14%) JUnit
13 68 (3.09%) SpecFlow
14 67 (3.05%) TeamCity
15 62 (2.82%) Bitbucket Server
16 53 (2.41%) WebDriver
17 47 (2.14%) Appium
18 46 (2.09%) Artifactory
18 46 (2.09%) REST Assured
19 42 (1.91%) SonarQube
General
1 578 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 480 (21.82%) Finance
3 396 (18.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 273 (12.41%) Law
5 235 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
6 218 (9.91%) Public Sector
7 131 (5.95%) Marketing
8 103 (4.68%) Banking
9 101 (4.59%) Retail
10 87 (3.95%) Legal
11 67 (3.05%) Electronics
12 50 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
13 49 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
14 44 (2.00%) Aerospace
15 42 (1.91%) Automotive
16 39 (1.77%) Telecoms
17 36 (1.64%) Games
17 36 (1.64%) Investment Banking
18 33 (1.50%) Manufacturing
19 28 (1.27%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 488 (22.18%) Senior
2 468 (21.27%) Developer
3 463 (21.05%) Software Engineer
4 272 (12.36%) Lead
5 196 (8.91%) Test Engineer
6 165 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
7 159 (7.23%) DevOps Engineer
8 147 (6.68%) Tester
9 128 (5.82%) Java Engineer
10 114 (5.18%) QA Engineer
11 105 (4.77%) Analyst
12 103 (4.68%) Java Software Engineer
13 102 (4.64%) AWS Engineer
13 102 (4.64%) Senior Developer
13 102 (4.64%) Software Developer
14 83 (3.77%) Senior DevOps
14 83 (3.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 82 (3.73%) Lead Software Engineer
16 78 (3.55%) Full Stack Developer
17 76 (3.45%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 325 (14.77%) .NET
2 227 (10.32%) React
3 191 (8.68%) RESTful
4 176 (8.00%) REST
5 160 (7.27%) HTML
6 158 (7.18%) Web Services
7 156 (7.09%) CSS
8 133 (6.05%) JSON
9 120 (5.45%) AngularJS
10 116 (5.27%) XML
11 109 (4.95%) Spring
12 103 (4.68%) Node.js
13 93 (4.23%) .NET Core
14 88 (4.00%) ASP.NET
15 86 (3.91%) Spring Boot
16 81 (3.68%) .NET Framework
16 81 (3.68%) Playwright
17 65 (2.95%) OpenID
18 55 (2.50%) Vue
19 48 (2.18%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 125 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
2 105 (4.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 104 (4.73%) Management Information System
4 99 (4.50%) Product Ownership
5 94 (4.27%) e-Learning
6 92 (4.18%) Mobile App
7 90 (4.09%) Blockchain
8 87 (3.95%) Algorithms
9 85 (3.86%) Cloud Native
10 56 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
11 49 (2.23%) Enterprise Cloud
12 46 (2.09%) Onboarding
12 46 (2.09%) Reference Data
13 40 (1.82%) Public Cloud
14 39 (1.77%) Blog
15 34 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
15 34 (1.55%) Market Risk
16 32 (1.45%) IoT
17 28 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
17 28 (1.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 222 (10.09%) Linux
2 128 (5.82%) Windows
3 109 (4.95%) Unix
4 57 (2.59%) Apple iOS
5 48 (2.18%) Android
6 34 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (0.95%) Windows Server
8 16 (0.73%) Embedded Linux
9 13 (0.59%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.45%) Debian
11 9 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
12 6 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.18%) VMS
14 3 (0.14%) CentOS
15 1 (0.045%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.045%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,240 (56.36%) Agile
2 687 (31.23%) CI/CD
3 686 (31.18%) Software Engineering
4 642 (29.18%) DevOps
5 518 (23.55%) Software Testing
6 472 (21.45%) Problem-Solving
7 410 (18.64%) Mentoring
8 359 (16.32%) TDD
9 329 (14.95%) SDLC
10 313 (14.23%) Continuous Integration
11 308 (14.00%) Microservices
12 305 (13.86%) Scrum
13 298 (13.55%) Coaching
14 278 (12.64%) Containerisation
15 277 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 257 (11.68%) Artificial Intelligence
17 242 (11.00%) Test Scripting
18 224 (10.18%) Computer Science
19 212 (9.64%) Full Stack Development
20 204 (9.27%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 555 (25.23%) Java
2 549 (24.95%) SQL
3 489 (22.23%) Python
4 442 (20.09%) JavaScript
5 435 (19.77%) C#
6 200 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 134 (6.09%) C++
8 103 (4.68%) C
9 83 (3.77%) Go
10 73 (3.32%) Kotlin
10 73 (3.32%) PL/SQL
11 57 (2.59%) PHP
12 50 (2.27%) PowerShell
13 45 (2.05%) SPARQL
14 44 (2.00%) Prolog
15 40 (1.82%) Bash
16 34 (1.55%) Scala
17 33 (1.50%) MATLAB
18 30 (1.36%) Perl
19 27 (1.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 373 (16.95%) Degree
2 247 (11.23%) Security Cleared
3 147 (6.68%) SC Cleared
4 140 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 105 (4.77%) ISTQB
6 61 (2.77%) DV Cleared
7 45 (2.05%) Master's Degree
8 37 (1.68%) ISEB
9 29 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (1.00%) Azure Certification
11 20 (0.91%) AWS Certification
12 19 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 18 (0.82%) HND
14 15 (0.68%) DBS Check
15 11 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.32%) OSCP
17 6 (0.27%) PhD
18 5 (0.23%) HNC
18 5 (0.23%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 529 (24.05%) QA
2 55 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 31 (1.41%) GDPR
3 31 (1.41%) ISO 9001
4 23 (1.05%) NCSC
5 22 (1.00%) PMO
6 21 (0.95%) Software Quality Assurance
7 14 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.59%) SLA
9 11 (0.50%) HIPAA
10 10 (0.45%) Data Quality
11 9 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.32%) JTAG
12 7 (0.32%) MISRA
13 5 (0.23%) HL7
13 5 (0.23%) MISRA C
13 5 (0.23%) WCAG
14 4 (0.18%) DICOM
14 4 (0.18%) ISO 13485
15 3 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 258 (11.73%) Docker
2 63 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 60 (2.73%) HDFS
4 40 (1.82%) Firmware
5 26 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
6 13 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.091%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.091%) Varnish
7 2 (0.091%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.091%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.091%) vSphere
8 1 (0.045%) GlusterFS
8 1 (0.045%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.045%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 338 (15.36%) Terraform
2 325 (14.77%) Kubernetes
3 101 (4.59%) Prometheus
4 82 (3.73%) Ansible
5 44 (2.00%) Grafana
6 28 (1.27%) Puppet
7 26 (1.18%) Progress Chef
8 19 (0.86%) Kibana
9 15 (0.68%) Salt
10 9 (0.41%) Packer
11 7 (0.32%) Istio
11 7 (0.32%) MIIS
12 6 (0.27%) HP ALM
12 6 (0.27%) Nagios
13 5 (0.23%) WMI
14 4 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.18%) Kustomize
15 3 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
16 2 (0.091%) cPanel
Vendors
1 199 (9.05%) Microsoft
2 102 (4.64%) Dynatrace
3 99 (4.50%) Red Hat
4 93 (4.23%) IBM
5 75 (3.41%) Oracle
6 74 (3.36%) Databricks
7 63 (2.86%) Informatica
8 49 (2.23%) Google
9 30 (1.36%) Cloudera
10 26 (1.18%) ServiceNow
11 22 (1.00%) SAP
12 21 (0.95%) Splunk
13 19 (0.86%) Atlassian
14 17 (0.77%) UiPath
15 16 (0.73%) Xamarin
16 14 (0.64%) BT
17 13 (0.59%) Sybase
17 13 (0.59%) VMware
18 12 (0.55%) Black Duck
19 11 (0.50%) Micro Focus